To explore possible treatments for various diseases, either animal models or human cell cultures are usually used first; however, animal models do not always mimic human diseases well, and cultures ...

That gap between training models and real organs has limited how well medical professionals can prepare before entering the operating room. Now, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities ...

Initial and follow-up 3D digital scans provide new insights into the effects of hyaluronic acid (HA) fillers in restoring facial volume and fullness, reports a study in the October issue of Plastic ...

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, has proven transformative for fabricating electrically conductive polymer nanocomposites that incorporate carbon nanotubes. However, existing methods ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have successfully 3D printed lifelike human tissue structures that can be used for medical training for surgeons and doctors.

Abstract: 3D shape segmentation is a fundamental and crucial task in the field of image processing and 3D shape analysis. To segment 3D shapes using data-driven methods, a fully labeled dataset is ...

Background: Chronic post-burn pruritus (CPBP) refers to a highly prevalent as well as debilitating problem after burn injuries, substantially impairing patients’ quality of life. Nevertheless, the ...

Abstract: This work presents a unified framework for the unsupervised prediction of physically plausible interpolations between two 3D articulated shapes and the automatic estimation of dense ...