• RecurringMeetings
• 2017-10-31

Recurring Meeting of Cleveland Clinic Core Team

Date: October 31, 2017

Time: 2:00 PM EST

Means: In person meeting

Attendees:

1. Ahmet Erdemir
2. Tammy Owings
3. Tyler Schimmoeller
4. Rici Morrill
5. Benjamin Landis
6. Andrew Kihyun Cho (Plastic Surgery Research Fellow)

Agenda:

1. Discuss immediate action items from past meetings.

   • http://wiki.simtk.org/multis/RecurringMeetings/2017-10-24

2. Manuscripts update.
3. In vitro testing progress.

4. Modeling & simulation progress.

5. Decide immediate action items for next meeting.
6. Other.

Immediate Action Items:

• Tyler
  • Continue fine tuning experimentation protocols using instrumented surgical tools.
  • Start an outline for instrumented surgical tool manuscript.
  • Continue developing other tissue testing specifications as needed.
  • Continue adaptation of existing Python scripts for tissue testing.
• Ben
  • Continue developing modeling specifications.
  • Document potential test cases to include in model assembly manuscript on the wiki.
  • Continue populating the wiki page on modeling using in vitro indentation data.
• Rici
  • Continue development of an outline for manuscript on tissue thickness measurement comparisons.
• Tammy
  • Continue segmentation for modeling and simulation.
• Ahmet
  • Compile haptics libraries and SofaHAPI.
• All
  • Review manuscript on in vivo data for submission.

Notes:

1. Discuss immediate action items from past meetings.
   • All action items were related to the recurring agenda items; refer to discussions below.
2. Manuscripts update.
   • The instrumented ultrasound paper was passed from the Chief Editor to the Associate Editor.
   • The in vivo data manuscript is awaiting feedback from co-authors. Rici has continued to develop the outline for the manuscript on comparative thickness analysis.
   • Ben has thought of case studies for his manuscript on model assembly. A simple knee representation including femur, tibia, and anterior cruciate ligament will be used to showcase output in different formats and simulation with different software. A full knee model will be used to showcase all the features. This will focus on demonstration of set definitions not necessarily will involve simulations. Coarse and fine mesh representations can be included. A simpler knee model including all constraints can also be used for demonstration, e.g., femur, tibia, anterior cruciate ligament, cartilage in contact, etc. Ahmet also recommended to add another model to demonstrate that the model assembly and generation code can work with other structures. A layered-tissue model can serve this purpose.
3. In vitro testing progress.
   • A mock test was completed with an aim of developing Vic3D strain measurement integration. The speckle pattern was sufficient but the cameras must be moved closer. There were issues in regard to the tool blocking regions of interest. Some additional tests will need to be conducted to resolve these issues.
   • Tyler also started trial tests to get accustomed to tissue testing protocols. He will do some reproducibility tests on target tissues.

4. Modeling & simulation progress.

   • Ben has completed work on mesh extrusion to build meshes of thin tissue structures using wedge elements. He has been testing this on cartilage and skin geometries.
5. Decide immediate action items for next meeting.
   • See Immediate Action Items above.
6. Other.
   • None noted.