biomedical modelling
Tetrahedral meshing of image data for biomedical simulation
WE CAN GIVE A BETTER DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IF WE TAILOR THINGS TO AN INDIVIDUAL
But we work to try to correct the issue and enable them to use the soſtware. Te ultimate goal is to create this system
BioMesh3D being utilised for tetrahedral mesh generation of multi-material quality meshes from segmented biomedical image data
Over the past few years we’ve been continually addressing more complexity, which means larger scale models and larger amounts of data that need to be dealt with in order to compute and run simulations and visualisations. We work with a lot of clinical and
biomedical collaborators and the one important fact is that they’re not computer scientists; they don’t want to write programs, they want a soſtware package that’s easy to use. Because of this, there’s a good deal of effort
The ScalaLife Project
Scalable Software Services for Life Science (ScalaLife) is a European initiative launched in 2010 with the ambitious mission of implementing new techniques for efficient parallelisation combined with throughput and ensemble computing for the life science community. ScalaLife seeks to establish a new approach for targeting the entire pipeline from problem formulation through algorithms, simulations and analysis by focusing heavily on actual application issues. In particular, the project will provide long-term support for major European software
www.scientific-computing.com
by establishing a pilot Competence Centre for scalable software services for the life science community to foster Europe’s role as a major software provider. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is
participating as main partner of ScalaLife and holds the responsibility of connecting the latest research on scalability and hardware design with application software work, and to properly document algorithms and optimisation techniques so that they can also be applied to other life science simulations. Professor Modesto Orozco,
BSC director of Life Science, and Databases Work Package leader of the ScalaLife project, explained that the future of structure-based drug discovery, for example, relies on software tools capable of scaling on multi-core supercomputers. ‘ScalaLife will provide the life science community with fast and flexible access to high-performance computing resources,’ he said. Additionally, Professor Orozco is coordinating the development of standards for handling both the storage and exchange of the ever-increasing amount of life science simulation data.
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made in the design of the user interface and there are a lot of iterations between us and our collaborators trying to make everything as intuitive as possible. We then put everything through testing phases; however, no matter how much time or effort you put into making the soſtware work, users will find ways to break it! We receive emails from people saying that it’s not working for them and in many cases we would never have dreamed of the soſtware being used in those particular ways!
of visualisation and simulation modelling techniques and corresponding soſtware. I think there is a tremendous movement towards personalised medicine. People are recognising that one size doesn’t fit all and that we can give a better level of diagnosis and treatment if we tailor things to an individual. Tat’s really what we’re working towards and while it’s taking longer than we thought, we’re making significant progress. I do believe that in the near future it will be possible to create treatments like implantable defibrillators and optimise their placement, and that we’ll create custom-fit joint replacements. And I think that’s going to be a very exciting time.
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