Soft-tissue simulation of the breast for intraoperative navigation and fusion of preoperative planning.

Computational preoperative planning offers the opportunity to reduce surgery time and patient risk. However, on soft tissues such as the breast, deviations between the preoperative and intraoperative settings largely limit the applicability of preoperative planning. In this work, we propose a high-performance accurate simulation model of the breast, to fuse preoperative information with the intraoperative deformation setting.