Biomedical Simulation

This book contains the written contributions to the 4th International Sym- sium on Biomedical Simulation (ISBMS), which was held at Imperial College in London, UK, July 7-8, 2008. The manuscripts areorganizedin four di?erent sections correspondingto key areas and techniques of this constantly expanding ?eld: ?nite element modeling, mass spring and statistical shape modeling, motion and ?uid modeling and - plementation issues. An additional section covers the posters presented at the meeting. Recent years have seen increased interest in computational models for b- medical simulation. The symposium provided an international forum for - searchers in this area to share their latest work and to discuss future trends. It was held in the spirit and continuation of the symposia on Surgical Simu- tion and Soft Tissue Modeling (IS4TM) organized in 2003 by INRIA, Medical Simulation (ISMS) in 2004 by CIMIT and Biomedical Simulation (ISBMS) in 2006 by ETH. Themeetingwassingletrackwith19oralpresentationsand7postersselected after evaluation by at least three members of the Program Committee. In ad- tion to contributed papers, the symposium included discussion panels on me- less methods and GPU-based simulation that gave participants an opportunity to learn the principles, applications, implementation details, and discuss future developmentsintheseincreasinglyrelevantareas.DenisNobleandGuang-Zhong Yang gave keynote talks on their work in computational modeling of biological systems and image-constrained biomechanical modeling, respectively.