ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the pipelines from imaging to meshing and simulation. The pipelines involve five main topics: imaging, image processing, geometric modeling and computer graphics, mesh generation and finite element simulations. These five topics can be applied to many applications in computational biology, medicine, material sciences and engineering. Finite element method and scanning technology have been developed and advanced rapidly, especially in cyberinfrastructure-revolutionized research areas such as computational science and engineering. There are many techniques and processes developed to create images, such as computational tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, and fluorescence for biomedical imaging. There are many challenges on image-based geometric modeling and mesh generation. Various applications often provide different challenges on imaging, image processing, geometry processing and simulation. In each module of the computational modeling pipeline, numerical methods are the key to develop algorithms for various research problems.
