Research Projects

Injuries and fatalities due to road accidents are more common across the country and has made all the automotive researchers to concentrate on automotive safety. Majority of these are neck and head injuries. Clinicians treating these injuries need tools to plan their treatment protocols, surgical planning and also need data to understand the post-surgery implications. The team has access too finite element human body model, BioRID-II FE dummy. Although Finite element model needs high computational power, they have good responses compared with experimental dummies and post-mortem human subjects (PMHS) which gives hope in wide variety of researches in crash safety. Patient specific Head and Neck spine finite element modelling (PS-HNM) is of recent interest to researchers and integrating PS-HNM using CAD morphing algorithms with dummies would help clinicians to understand the nature of injuries due to automotive crash, the current study is looking at whiplash injury. Efforts of PS-HNM with spinal cord modelling has been reported by this team collaborators for cervical spine. Adding these modelling efforts into a dummy will make a detailed FE model for intrinsic responses like spinal cord stresses, cornerstone trabecular stresses etc for an automotive rear crash signal as an input . PS-HNM need deep learning techniques for automatic detection of spine components contours from MRI images, to classify degeneration and will be a supportive tool to aid in prediction of the clinical conditions due to injury.