Patient-Specific Studies of Pelvic Floor Biomechanics Using Imaging

Biomechanical modeling and simulation of the pelvic floor structures have caught much attention in the past decade. Many computational approaches were developed with the goal of advancing our understanding the mechanism of the pelvic floor pathologies and improving treatment clinically. In this chapter, we review some of the existing work on building three dimensional (3D) models of the pelvic floor and modeling its mechanics.

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