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The design of 3D scaffold for tissue engineering using automated scaffold design algorithm

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Several progresses have been introduced in the field of bone regenerative medicine. A new term tissue engineering (TE) was created. In TE, a highly porous artificial extracellular matrix or scaffold is required to accommodate cells and guide their growth in three dimensions. The design of scaffolds with desirable internal and external structure represents a challenge for TE. In this paper, we introduce a new method known as automated scaffold design (ASD) for designing a 3D scaffold with a minimum mismatches for its geometrical parameters. The method makes use of k-means clustering algorithm to separate the different tissues and hence decodes the defected bone portions. The segmented portions of different slices are registered to construct the 3D volume for the data. It also uses an isosurface rendering technique for 3D visualization of the scaffold and bones. It provides the ability to visualize the transplanted as well as the normal bone portions. The proposed system proves good performance in both the segmentation results and visualizations aspects.

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This work is supported by Department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

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    Shahenda Mahmoud, Ayman Eldeib & Sherif Samy

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Mahmoud, S., Eldeib, A. & Samy, S. The design of 3D scaffold for tissue engineering using automated scaffold design algorithm. Australas Phys Eng Sci Med 38, 223–228 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13246-015-0339-4

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