抄録
In this paper, the authors present methods to estimate respiratory function after lobectomy.
Lobectomy is a common surgical care for lung cancers. By lobectomy, whole lung lobe containing
cancer is resected. Although this causes low recidivation rate, there is risk to lead to low respiratory
function after lobectomy because of deformation of bronchus. The set of the methods presented in
this paper consists of a method to generate virtual post-operative CT images, a method to simulate
air-flow in bronchus by computational fluid dynamics simulation, and a method to deform bronchus
region for virtual stenting. Applying these method to clinical CT images, effectiveness of the methods
was shown.
