Topics of Interest
The workshop invites original contributions related to the application of computational biomechanics and computational biomedical science in computer-integrated medicine, including but not limited to:
- Medical image analysis and image-based biomechanical modelling
- Image-guided surgery and computer-assisted intervention
- Surgical simulation and virtual training environments
- Surgical intervention planning and decision support
- Surgical technique development and evaluation
- Disease diagnosis, prognosis, and risk assessment
- Injury mechanisms and trauma analysis
- Design of surgical aids, instruments, and assistive devices
- Digital twins, virtual patients, and artificial organs
- Implant and prosthesis design and optimisation
- Medical and surgical robotics
- Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
- Embryonic development, growth, and morphogenesis
- Mechanics of ageing and degenerative processes
- Generation of synthetic data for AI and machine-learning systems
- Biomechanics for Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINN)
- Image-guided surgery and computational medicine in resource-limited settings
Methodological Scope
The workshop encompasses a broad range of computational modelling methodologies, including:
- Solid and continuum mechanics
- Multibody systems kinematics and dynamics
- Computational fluid mechanics and fluid–structure interaction
- Mechanobiology, multiphysics modelling, and thermodynamics (e.g. heat transfer and radiation)