Development of an accurate CAD model of femur bone

This research work explores the area of biomedical image processing. A CAD model of human femur structure has been developed from computerized tomographic image taken as input data, which is further modified and segmented to form an accurate CAD model of a human femur by varying the segmentation methods and parameters, multi component model of whole femur structure is obtained as an assembly of bone. The segmentation is performed using an open source code ITK SNAP. This segmented CAD model of human femur structure can be used for engineering analysis such as static structural analysis, Model analysis and also used in manufacturing of handicapped aids, artificial bones, safety in sports equipment, design and implementing the rapid prototyping for Multi scaled model development.