Handbook of Real-World Applications in Modeling and Simulation

Contributors

Michel A. Audette, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at Old Dominion's Department of Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization Engineering, where his research emphasizes patient-specific neurosurgery simulation, model-based surgical guidance, and surgical device development. Before coming to Old Dominion, he was R&D engineer at Kitware, as well as had postdoctoral experience at the Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS) in Leipzig, Germany, and at the National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba, Japan. He has broad expertise in medical image analysis and continuum mechanics, and has a highly collaborative approach to the simulation of surgical instruments and to anatomical modeling. He received his Ph.D. at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where his thesis dealt with a laser range-sensing-based approach to the estimation of intrasurgical brain shift, and he helped introduce range sensing to the medical imaging community. He has patents in the United States and Japan.

Catherine M. Banks, Ph.D., is Research Associate Professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) at Old Dominion University. Dr. Banks received her Ph.D. in International Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She currently focuses her research on modeling states and their varied histories of revolution and insurgency, political economy and state volatility, and human behavior/human modeling with applications ...