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Learning

Online Courses 🎬

YouTube Channels 📺

Videos 📹

Learning to Code 🚧

This section in under construction

Python

Julia

Git

Teaching Resources 📐

Books 📘

Datasets 📀

Human Anatomy 🦴

Full Body

  • Visible Human Project: public-domain library of cross-sectional cryosection, CT, and MRI images obtained from one male cadaver and one female cadaver. The dataset in NIfTI format, easier to import and use in segmentation software, were provided by Bart Bolsterlee (see further details here and code for conversion here). The male and femal dataset were also entirely segmented in 2023 by Andreassen et al. (see their paper).
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :dvd: dataset in NIfTI format | :dvd: dataset segmented 2023 | :computer: website

  • Visible Korean Human: similar to the Visible Human Project but on Korean cadavers. Segmentated images are provided together with the section images.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website (scroll down for English version)

  • Chinese Visible Human: similar to the Visible Human Project but on Chinese cadavers. the dataset does not seem to be available anymore, despite being still listed on a related website.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

  • New Mexico Decedent Image Database (NMDID) by HJH Edgar et al. (2020). NMDID includes whole body CT scans of over 15,000 New Mexicans who died between 2010-2017. Each individual is represented by approximately 10,000 images in DICOM format. Slice thickness is 1 mm with 0.5 mm overlap. Normal and thin slice reconstructions are available for bone, lung, and brain. 3D reconstructions are possible with this data, depending on what viewer you use. Metadata includes almost 60 variables about the individuals’ demography, life and death (accessible for research separately from the CT scans).
    📄 how to cite | 📀 dataset | 💻 website

  • Cancer Imaging Archive is a service which de-identifies and hosts a large archive of medical images of cancer accessible for public download. The data are organized as “collections”; typically patients’ imaging related by a common disease (e.g. lung cancer), image modality or type (MRI, CT, digital distopathology, etc) or research focus. DICOM is the primary file format used by TCIA for radiology imaging. Supporting data related to the images such as patient outcomes, treatment details, genomics and expert analyses are also provided when available.
    📀 dataset | 💻 website

  • BodyParts3D by Nobutaka Mitsuhashi et al. (2003). This is a 3D structure database for anatomical concepts that extends beyond biomechanics.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :dvd: STL files

Lower Limb Anatomy

  • fastMRI dataset by Facebook AI and NYU (2019-2020). Data from more than 1,500 fully sampled knee MRIs obtained on 3 and 1.5 Tesla magnets and DICOM images from 10,000 clinical knee MRIs also obtained at 3 or 1.5 Tesla. Includes also brain scans. No segmentation available.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :star: resources

  • MRNet Dataset by Stanford University Medical Center. The MRNet dataset consists of 1,370 knee MRI exams: 1,104 (80.6%) abnormal exams, with 319 (23.3%) ACL tears and 508 (37.1%) meniscal tears; labels were obtained through manual extraction from clinical reports.

  • 📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website

  • Talocrural Morphology: Statistical Shape Modeling with a Hybrid Multi-Articulation Joint Approach by A Lenz et al. (2021). Segmented three-dimensional surface meshes (.ply) of weightbearing computed tomography (CT) images are included for the tibia, fibula and talus of 27 healthy participants. A sample weightbearing CT scan (.dicom) is provided to demonstrate image resolution, field of view and voxel size. Additionally, MATLAB scripts for calculating talocrural joint coverage, space and congruency are included in the resources. DOI
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :star: resources

  • The Virtual Skeleton Database: An Open Access Repository for Biomedical Research and Collaboration by Michael Kistler et al. (2013). Dataset including post mortem CT images of 50 subjects. Despite several attempts I was never granted access to these data, although I know of others who did.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website

    • SMIR pelves and selected pelvic landmarks from five experienced raters (20 pelves). DOI
      📄 paper | :dvd: dataset
    • SMIR pelves and femurs segmented bone from 20 CT scans available in MATLAB format.
      📀 dataset

  • An image-based kinematic model of the tibiotalar and subtalar joints and its application to gait analysis in children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis by Erica Montefiori et al. (2019). Study with twenty enrolled participants. For each participant, the opensim model of the foot and ankle joint complex and the relative bone geometries were shared, together with motion capture data (marker data) and results of inverse kinematics simulations for around six gait trials per participant.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Development and validation of statistical shape models of the primary functional bone segments of the foot. by Tamara Grant et al. (2019). Dataset includes manually segmented three-dimensional bone geometry models (.STL) from magnetic resonance images of 34 subjects of first metatarsal (29 geometries), midfoot (second-to-fifth metatarsals, cuneiforms, cuboid, and navicular) (33 geometries), calcaneus (27 geometries), and talus (34 geometries). not all geometries are used. DOI
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Are Subject-Specific Musculoskeletal Models Robust to the Uncertainties in Parameter Identification? by by Giordano Valente et al. (2014). Dataset includes MRI scans on a single healthy male participant and gait lab data of a single gait cycle.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • MB Knee: Multibody Models of the Human Knee by Trent Guess. The data set includes four knee models, one based on in vivo measurements from a 29 year old female and three based on cadaver knees that were physically tested in a dynamic knee simulator. Knee geometries (bone, cartilage, and menisci) were derived from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and ligament insertions come from MRI, the literature, and probing the cadaver knees. The site also contains information on ligament modeling, such as bundle insertion locations and zero load lengths.
    📀 dataset

  • OpenKnee by Ahmet Erdemir et al. Open Knee(s) is aimed to provide free access to three-dimensional finite element representations of the knee joint. Dataset includes one knee specimen from the first generation of data collected and 21 specimens (knee id up to 22, missing one) for second generation.
    📄 paper 2021 (MRI and mechanical testing) | :page_facing_up: paper 2016 | :page_facing_up: paper 2013 | :page_facing_up: ASB abstract 2010 | :page_facing_up: User's Guide 2010 | :dvd: dataset

  • Subject-specific muscle properties from diffusion tensor imaging significantly improve the accuracy of musculoskeletal models by James Charles et al. (2020). Includes MRI scans (T1‐weighted anatomical turbo spin‐echo and diffusion tensor imaging) and Isokinetic and isometric torque measurement from 10 subjects (5 female). MRI images are segmented and processed to obtain muscle architecture.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • The Osteoarthritis Initiative The Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) is a multi-center, ten-year observational study of men and women, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (part of the Department of Health and Human Services). The goals of the OAI are to provide resources to enable a better understanding of prevention and treatment of knee osteoarthritis, one of the most common causes of disability in adults. The dataset contains the permanent archive of the clinical data, patient reported outcomes, biospecimen analyses, quantitative image analyses, radiographs (X-Rays) and magnetic resonance images (MRIs) acquired during this study. There are longitudinal assessments and measurements from 4,796 subjects, with data from over 431,000 clinical and imaging visits, and almost 26,626,000 images.
    💻 website

  • Femur and tibia surface mesh set by Daniel Nolte et al. (2020). The data set contains bone geometries of the left and right thigh (femur) and shank (tibia and fibula) segmented from magnetic resonance (MR) scans of 35 healthy volunteers (22 male, 13 female). DOI
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • MRI-based anatomical characterisation of lower-limb muscles in older women by Erica Montefiori et al. (2020). The dataset contains segmentations for the eleven subjects investigated in the study (mean (sd), age: 69 (7), mass: 66.9 (7.7) kg, height: 159 (3) cm). Segmentations include 1) bone and soft tissue (skin), 2) muscle volumes and 3) muscle centrelines. The first two are in stl format, the latter in vtk format.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Natural Knee Data by University of Denver Center for Orthopaedic Biomechanics. CT and MRI images are provided for 7 knee specimens (5 cadaveric subjects) plus solid models created from the CT images. In addition, during dissection of the knees, surfaces and ligament insertions and origins were outlined on the bones and recorded as probed points.
    📀 dataset | :computer: website

  • Living Biomechanics of the Knee by University of Denver Center for Orthopaedic Biomechanics. Kinematic and loading data from an experiment that used quadriceps force to extend the knee. The objective of this data was to provide a foundation to create a computer model representation of the patella joint in order to predict motion and forces across healthy and pathological specimens.
    📀 dataset | :computer: website

  • Twente Lower Extremity (TLEM) Dataset by Martin Klein Horsman et al. (2007). Anatomical data intended for musculoskeletal modelling obtained by the dissection of a single male cadaver.
    📄 PhD thesis 📄 paper | :dvd: dataset (paywalled)

  • TLEM2.0: A New Complete and Consistent Musculoskeletal Geometry Dataset for Subject-Specific Modelling of the Lower Extremity by Vincenzo Carbone and René Fluit et al. (2015. New comprehensive dataset of the musculoskeletal geometry of the lower extremity, which is based on medical imaging data and dissection performed on the right lower extremity of a fresh male cadaver. A complete cadaver dissection was performed, in which bony landmarks, attachments sites and lines-of-action of 55 muscle actuators and 12 ligaments, bony wrapping surfaces, and joint geometry were measured.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset (requires registration) | :computer: website

Upper Extremity and Spine

  • Hand and Wrist Dataset by Goislard de Monsabert et al. (2018). Data set intended for modelling including the musculoskeletal geometry and muscle morphology from the elbow to the finger tips. Clinical imaging, optical motion capture and microscopy were used to create a dataset from a single specimen.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Hand muscles attachments: A Geometrical model by Havelková L et al. (2020). Sixteen cadaveric preparations were dissected to draw up the anatomical maps including the position of muscle attachments, dimensions, shapes, cross section areas and variations. The magnetic resonance imaging of cadaveric upper extremity was performed to reconstruct the geometry of all bones and hand muscles.
    📄 dataset paper (not published yet) | :page_facing_up: AnyBody model's paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Shoulder morphological data by the Dutch Shoulder Group. Includes data about mass and inertia, muscle contraction parameters and muscle geometries collected during several studies performed in 1988-2002 period.
    📄 paper1991 | :page_facing_up: paper1992 | :dvd: dataset

  • The digital human forearm and hand by Faes D. Kerkhof et al. (2018). An un‐embalmed cadaveric arm was digitized using 7T MRI and CT scans and 3D geometrical models of bones, cartilage, muscle and muscle pathways were generated. Muscle volume, mass, length, pennation angle, physiological cross‐sectional area, tendon length were measured during dissection and, after that, muscle biopsies were used to visualize and measure sarcomere lengths with confocal microscopy. The result is an integrated anatomical dataset that can be used for creating complete and accurate musculoskeletal models of the hand.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Twente spine model by Riza Bayoglu et al. (2017). This dataset represents a complete and coherent dataset for the lumbar spine, based on medical images and dissection measurements from one embalmed human cadaver.
    📄 paper-lumbar spine | :page_facing_up: paper-thoracic and cervical | :page_facing_up: PhD thesis | 💻 website | 📀 dataset

Muscle Anatomy and Parameters

  • Muscle Modelling Database by Ross Miller (2018). A summary of muscle mechanical parameters in the human lower limb from the anatomy, muscle/exercise physiology, and biomechanics literature for use in Hill-based muscle model.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Regional variation in lateral and medial gastrocnemius muscle fibre lengths obtained from diffusion tensor imaging by Jeroen Aeles et al. (2021). The released data include raw MRI (T1-weighted) and DTI scans of the dominant lower leg of 32 adults (males, females, young adults, older adults). These data were used to study the regional variation in muscle fibre lengths in the medial and lateral gastrocnemius muscles. The T1-weighted scans were used to segment the muscles and the DTI scans were used to reconstruct the muscle fibre architecture.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

Animal Anatomy and Anthropology 🐊

  • CT scans of various animals from John Hutchinson's group.
    📀 dataset

  • Digital Morphology Museum of Kyoto University (KUPRI): The Digital Morphology Museum (DMM) provides an environment in which you can readily examine skeletal anatomy using the Primate Research Institute’s (PRI) collection of CT and MRI tomography scans. The goal of this site is to enable you to view the scans of non-human primates and mammals and to download scan data from our database for your original research.
    💻 website

  • DigiMorph: Digital Morphology library is a dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens.
    💻 website

  • eLucy by the Dept of Anthropology of University of Texas at Austin. eLucy is dedicated to sharing information about 'Lucy', an early fossil hominin represented by the 3.2 million year old remains of a relatively complete skeleton. Through this website is possible to request access for research and teaching purposes to the digital reconstruction (STL files) of right shoulder and left knee of ‘Lucy’, an early fossil hominin (Australopithecus afarensis) represented by the 3.2 million year old remains of a relatively complete skeleton.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

  • Genetics of craniofacial shape in Mus by Murat Maga (2017). This dataset includes ~500 high-resolution 3D mouse head microCT scans, associated anatomical landmarks, and individual genotypes suitable to study quantitative genetics of head shape. Scans are of a mouse panel between C57BL/6J and A/J mouse strains and associated genotype data.
    💻 website

  • GB3D Type Fossils Online project aims to develop a single database of the type specimens, held in British collections, of macrofossil species and subspecies found in the UK, including links to photographs (including 'anaglyph' stereo pairs) and a selection of 3D digital models.
    📀 dataset | :computer: website| :camera: introductory video

  • Phenome10K: A free online repository for 3-D scans of biological and palaeontological specimens. This site provides 3D scans – CT and surface – of biological and palaeontological specimens for free download by the academic and educational community.
    📀 dataset | :computer: website

  • MorphoBrowser by Jukka Jervall et al. MorphoBrowser is a 3D visualisation and searching tool for mammalian teeth, accessible over the web. It allows the user to ‘browse’ through the diverse range of tooth morphologies found in mammals, both extinct and extant.
    💻 website

  • MorphoMuseuM (M3): is a peer reviewed, online journal that publishes 3D models of vertebrates, including models of type specimens, anatomy atlases, reconstruction of deformed or damaged specimens, and 3D datasets.
    💻 website

  • MorphoSource by Duke University. MorphoSource has approximately 27,000 published 3D models of biological specimens (largely skeletal material). You can view all of these in your web browser with no required software. Around 13,000 of these are open access and can be freely downloaded for further visualization or measurement.
    💻 website

  • SketchFab: is an online platform providing 3D models (free and not free options). :computer: website | :star: example: Science/Technology section | :star: example: Evans EvoMorph Lab

  • The Open Research Scan Archive (formerly: Penn Cranial CT Database) by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (curators: Thomas Schoenemann and Janet Monge). contains high resolution (sub-millimeter) scans of human and non-human crania from the Penn University Museum and other institutions. The collection includes approximately 1800 crania (1200 from the Samuel George Morton Collection, then extended by J. Aitken Meigs).
    💻 website

Balance ⚖️

  • Standing Balance Experiment with Long Duration Random Pulses Perturbation by Huawei Wang and Ton van den Bogert (2020). The data-set includes the perturbation reaction data from eight subjects. Each subject performed four experiment trials, including two quiet standing and two perturbed trials. Each trial lasted five minutes for a total of 80 minutes quiet standing and 80 minutes perturbed standing data. Recorded information including three dimensional trajectories of thirty-two markers (27 on subjects' trunk and legs and 5 on the treadmill frame), six dimensional ground reaction forces, and nine Electromyography signals (EMGs, on subjects' right leg). DOI
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • BDS: A public data set of human balance evaluations by Damiana dos Santos and Marco Duarte (2016). The data set comprises signals from the force platform (raw data for the force, moments of forces, and centers of pressure) of 163 subjects plus one file with information about the subjects and balance conditions and the results of the other evaluations. Subject’s balance was evaluated by posturography using a force platform and by the Mini Balance Evaluation Systems Tests in four conditions (standing still for 60 s on a rigid surface with eyes open; on a rigid surface with eyes closed; on an unstable surface with eyes open; on an unstable surface with eyes closed). Each condition was performed three times and the order of the conditions was randomized among subjects.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website | :star: resources

  • PDS: A data set with kinematic and ground reaction forces of human balance by Damiana dos Santos et al. (2017). This data set comprises signals from two force platforms (raw data for the force, moments of forces, and center of pressure) and the full-body three-dimensional kinematics of 49 subjects plus one file with meta data about the subjects and balance conditions and the results.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website

Energetics 🔥

  • ISB2019 Metabolic cost session_: Data for participants in ISB2019 session on model-based prediction of the metabolic cost of human locomotion. by Ross Miller (2019).
    📄 users' guide | :dvd: dataset

  • Dataset for Metabolic Cost Calculations of Gait using Musculoskeletal Energy Models, a Comparison Study by Anne D. Koelewijn et al. (2019). The data set contains raw and processed data of gait analysis experiments of level and inclined walking at two speeds for 12 participants. The slopes were uphill and downhill with 8% incline. The raw data contains the output of the force plates and marker data, as well as raw measurements from an K4B2 system. DOI
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

Walking 🚶

  • A database of human gait performance on irregular and uneven surfaces collected by wearable sensors by Luo et al. (2020). Data from Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) from thirty participants (fifteen males and fifteen females, 23.5 ± 4.2 years, 169.3 ± 21.5 cm, 70.9 ± 13.9 kg) who wore six IMUs while walking on nine outdoor surfaces with self-selected speed (16.4 ± 4.2 seconds per trial). Intended for machine learning purposes.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :dvd: metadata | :star: resources

  • An Open Data Set of Inertial, Magnetic, Foot–Ground Contact, and Electromyographic Signals From Wearable Sensors During Walking. by Miraldo DC, Watanabe RN and Duarte M (2020). Data were acquired from 22 healthy adults using wearable sensors and walking at self-selected comfortable, fast and slow speeds, and standing still. In total, there are data of 9,661 gait strides. The dataset includes gait events and notebooks exemplifying how to access and visualize the data.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website | :star: resources

  • A multimodal dataset of human gait at different walking speeds established on injury-free adult participants by Céline Schreiber & Florent Moissenet (2019). Dataset collected on 50 healthy and injury-free adults, with no lower and upper extremity surgery in the last two years. Participants walked at 5 speeds during one unique session. Three dimensional trajectories of 52 reflective markers spread over the whole body, 3D ground reaction forces and moment, and electromyographic signals were simultaneously recorded.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • A public data set of overground and treadmill walking kinematics and kinetics of healthy individuals by Claudiane A. Fukuchi et al. (2018). Dataset of 42 healthy volunteers (24 young adults and 18 older adults) who walked both overground and on a treadmill at a range of gait speeds.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website

  • An elaborate data set on human gait and the effect of mechanical perturbations by Jason Moore et al. (2015). Gait data set collected from fifteen subjects walking at three speeds on an instrumented treadmill. Each trial consists of 120 s of normal walking and 480 s of walking while being longitudinally perturbed during each stance phase with pseudo-random fluctuations in the speed of the treadmill belt.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: resources

  • Human kinematic, kinetic and EMG data during level walking, toe/heel-walking, stairs ascending/descending by Tiziana Lencioni et al. (2019). kinematic, kinetic and electromyographic (EMG) data acquired from 50 healthy subjects (age between 6 and 72 years) during level walking at different velocities, toe- and heel-walking, stairs ascending and descending.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Multiple Speed Walking Simulations by May Liu et al. (2008). Data set with eight subjects (two males) walking overground at very slow, slow, free, and fast speeds.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Normative gait data from Chris Kirtley's website on clinical gait analysis. Website does not seem maintained.
    💻 website

  • 2-D walking: kinematics and force plate data by David Winter. Originally published as Appendix in the book Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1990.
    💻 website | :dvd: dataset

  • GaitRec, a large-scale ground reaction force dataset of healthy and impaired gait by Horsak et al. (2020). GAITREC is a comprehensive and annotated large-scale dataset containing bi-lateral GRF walking trials of 2,084 patients with various musculoskeletal impairments and data from 211 healthy controls. The data sum up to a total of 75,732 bi-lateral walking trials.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Gutenberg Gait Database, a ground reaction force database of level overground walking in healthy individuals by Horst et al. (2021). The Gutenberg Gait Database comprises data of 350 healthy individuals. The database contains ground reaction force (GRF) and center of pressure (COP) data of two consecutive steps measured - by two force plates embedded in the ground - during level overground walking at self-selected walking speed.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

Running 🏃

  • A public data set of running biomechanics and the effects of running speed on lower extremity kinematics and kinetics by Reginaldo K. Fukuchi et al. (2017). The lower-extremity kinematics and kinetics data of 28 regular runners were collected using a three-dimensional (3D) motion-capture system and an instrumented treadmill while the subjects ran at 2.5 m/s, 3.5 m/s, and 4.5 m/s wearing standard neutral shoes.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website

  • Ground reaction force metrics are not strongly correlated with tibial bone load when running across speeds and slopes: implications for science, sport and wearable tech by Emily Matijevich et al. (2019). Includes ten healthy individuals that performed running trials while GRFs and kinematics were collected. DOI
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset and resources

  • Muscle contributions to mass center accelerations over a range of running speeds by Samuel Hamner and Scott Delp (2013). Repository of experimental data (i.e., motion capture, EMG, GRFs), subject-specific models, and muscle-driven simulation results of 10 male subject running across a range of speeds: 2 m/s, 3 m/s, 4 m/s, and 5 m/s.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Simulated muscle fiber lengths and velocities during walking and running by Edith Arnold et al. (2013). Models and results for simulations of muscle fiber dynamics for five subjects walking at four speeds and running at four speeds. The subject numbers are noncontiguous to maintain alignment with the related project: https://simtk.org/projects/nmbl_running.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Muscle function of overground running across a range of speeds by Tim Dorne et al. (2012). Running data and musculoskeletal models for a single representative subject (JA1). Actual running speeds: 3.56 m/s, 5.20 m/s, 7.00 m/s and 9.49 m/s.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset

  • Development and validation of FootNet; a new kinematic algorithm to improve foot-strike and toe-off detection in treadmill running by Adrian R Rivadulla et al. (2021). Features (distal tibia anteroposterior velocity, ankle dorsi/plantar flexion angle, anteroposterior and vertical foot centre of mass velocities) and ground truth labels (vertical ground reaction forces) and notebooks for model development replication. :page_facing_up: paper | :dvd: dataset

  • CARL: a running recognition algorithm for free-living accelerometer data by John J Davis IV et al. (2021). An activity recognition algorithm that can identify and extract bouts of running from raw accelerometry data collected anywhere on the torso or wrist. Written in MATLAB and accompanied by a dataset of 227 subjects equipped with wearable accelerometers performing a wide range of activities, including walking, running, cycling, sit-to-stand transitions, and more. 📄 paper | :dvd: dataset 💾 source

Instrumented Prostheses 📈

  • Grand Challenge Competition to Predict In Vivo Knee Loads By BJ Fregly et al. (2012). Data sets from instrumented knee prostheses used in the "Grand Challenge Competition". Data include medical images and segmentations (for most participants), tibial contact force, video motion, ground reaction, muscle EMG, muscle strength, static and dynamic imaging, and implant geometry data for six patients. This is the most completely and easily accessible dataset of measurements from instrumented prostheses.
    📄 paper1 | :page_facing_up: paper2 | :dvd: dataset

  • Orthoload by the Julius Wolff Institute of the Charité in Berlin. This online dataset includes loads occuring in human joints measured directly in patients by using instrumented hip, knee, shoulder and spinal implants. OrthoLoad supplies numerical load data and videos, which contain load-time diagrams and synchronous images of the subject’s activities. No joint kinematics available outside larger cooperative projects, except few sample data:.
    📄 publication list | :dvd: dataset hip | :dvd: dataset knee | :dvd: dataset shoulder | :dvd: dataset spine | :dvd: sample comprehensive | :computer: website

  • HIP98 by Georg Bergmann et al. (1998). The data collection CD-ROM HIP98 contains the forces acting in the hip joint during the most common activities of daily living. Measurements were taken 1998 in 4 subjects (implant loads, synchronous videos, gait analysis data, calculated muscle forces, EMG signals and numbers for the frequencies of the different activities).The loads acting in a ’typical’ or representative subject are also provided. Issues in installing the database in recent Microsoft operative systems. The data will be extracted but the GUI will not work.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website

  • CAMS-KNEE by William Taylor et al. (2017). Datasets collected on a cohort of 6 subjects with instrumented knee implants (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) synchronized with a moving fluoroscope (ETH Zürich) and other measurement techniques (whole body kinematics, ground reaction forces, video data, and electromyography data) for multiple complete cycles of 5 activities of daily living. Data must be requested submitting a project description. I was NOT granted access to the entire data set for exploring the dataset.
    Link to live dataset is broken.
    📄 paper | :cd: data request | :cd: live dataset (CAMS-KNEE workshop) | :computer: website

Upper Limb Movements 💪

  • Shoulder movements database by Bart Bolsterlee et al. (2013). Data for five subjects (2 females, age 29.2 ± 2.3 year, height 176.3 ± 7.2 cm) performing range of motion and activities of daily living for the shoulder. Dataset includes kinematic, force and EMG data. A user guide and Matlab scripts are also available.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website

  • Complete Inertial Pose (CIP) dataset by M. Palermo et al. (2022). The CIP dataset is composed of 2 subsets, containing low-cost (MPU9250) and high-end (MTwAwinda) Magnetic, Angular Rate, and Gravity (MARG) sensor data respectively. Multiple trials were collected with 21 and 10 subjects respectively, performing 6 types of movements (ranging from calibration, to daily-activities, range-of-motion and random). It presents a high degree of variability and complex dynamics while containing common sources of error found on real conditions. This amounts to 3.5M samples, synchronized with a ground-truth inertial motion capture system (Xsens) at 60hz.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :star: code

Hand 🤲

  • A large calibrated database of hand movements and grasps kinematics by Néstor J. Jarque-Bou et al. (2020). The dataset includes calibrated kinematic data for 77 subjects and 40 movements (each repeated several times), resulting in the largest available kinematic dataset. The dataset derives from three multimodal datasets, previously released (Ninapro DB1, DB2 and DB5, that include electromyography, inertial and dynamic data). Hand kinematics was measured for all subjects using a 22-sensor CyberGlove II data glove. DOI
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :star: code

  • Wrist Anatomy and Kinematics Data Collection by Bardiya Akhbari et al. (2019). The current collection includes carpal bone (not metacarpals) anatomy models from 90 healthy subjects (120 wrists), and the carpal bone kinematics in 1215 unique wrist positions. A graphical user interface (GUI) is also developed to maximize user interaction with this collection.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website

Soft Tissue Artefacts 🦵

  • Standardization proposal of soft tissue artefact description for data sharing in human motion measurements by Andrea Cereatti et al. (2017). This dataset includes open-access and standard-format soft tissues artefact data from several previous studies (both upper and lower limbs) that will be useful for the evaluation and development of bone pose estimators in three-dimensional human movement analysis.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset (journal website) | :dvd: dataset (GitHub | :page_facing_up: description of included datasets

  • To what extent is joint and muscle mechanics predicted by musculoskeletal models sensitive to soft tissue artefacts? by Giuliano Lamberto et al. (2017). Models and data used in the paper to simulate the soft tissue artefacts occurring during gait and their influence on the internal forces estimated by three musculoskeletal models of the lower limb.
    📄 paper | :dvd: simulations data

Health Datasets ❤️

  • Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank: databank of anonymised data about the population of Wales. It ensures robust secure storage and use of anonymised person-based data for research to improve health, well-being and services.The Health section includes many aspects of population health, primary and secondary care, and social care services.
    📀 Health datasets | :computer: website

  • UK Biobank is a health resource that follows the health and well-being of 500,000 volunteer participants and provides health information, which does not identify them, to approved researchers in the UK and overseas. The aim of UK Biobank is to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses – including cancer, heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, eye disorders, depression and forms of dementia.
    💻 website

Rugby 🏉

  • Cervical Spine Injury Mechanism Analysis is a project funded by the RFU IPF and led by Dario Cazzola at the University of Bath. The aim of this project is to unveil the injury mechanisms related to rugby activities such as scrummaging and tackling, with the final aim to inform the design of injury prevention strategies. The MSK models implemented for this project are based on population specific (DXA) and subject specific (MRI) data and optimised to be used during impact events. Kinematics and kinetic data of rugby scrummaging and tackling are also available.
    📄 paper Rugby Model | :page_facing_up: paper bushing parameters | :page_facing_up: paper EMG-assisted | :dvd: simulations data impacts| :dvd: simulations data scrummaging| :computer: website

EMG 🔌💪

  • Sex-specific tuning of modular muscle activation patterns for locomotion in young and older adults by Santuz A., Janshen, L., Brüll L., Munoz-Martel V., Taborri J., Rossi S. and Arampatzis A. (2022). This data set contains: a) the metadata with anonymized participant information; b) the raw EMG, already concatenated for the overground trials; c) the touchdown and lift-off timings of the recorded limb, d) the code to process the data. In total, 520 trials from 215 participants are included in the data set.
    📀 dataset and resources

  • Lower complexity of motor primitives ensures robust control of high-speed human locomotion by Santuz A., Ekizos A., Kunimasa Y., Kijima K., Ishikawa M. and Arampatzis, A. (2020). This data set contains: a) the metadata with anonymized participant information, b) the raw EMG, c) the touchdown and lift-off timings of the recorded limb, d) the filtered and time-normalized EMG, e) the muscle synergies extracted via NMF and f) the code to process the data, including the scripts to calculate the Higuchi's fractal dimension (HFD) of motor primitives. In total, 180 trials from 30 participants are included in the data set.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset and resources

  • Neuromotor Dynamics of Human Locomotion in Challenging Settings by Santuz A., Brüll L., Ekizos A., Schroll A., Eckardt N., Kibele A., Schwenk M. and Arampatzis, A. (2020). This data set contains: a) the metadata with anonymized participant information, b) the raw electromyographic (EMG) data acquired during locomotion, c) the touchdown and lift-off timings of the recorded limb, d) the filtered and time-normalized EMG, e) the muscle synergies extracted via non-negative matrix factorization and f) the code written in R (R Found. for Stat. Comp.) to process the data, including the scripts to calculate the short-term Maximum Lyapunov Exponents (sMLE) and Higuchi's fractal dimension (HFD) of motor primitives. In total, 476 trials from 86 participants are included in the data set.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset and resources

  • Muscle Activation Patterns Are More Constrained and Regular in Treadmill Than in Overground Human Locomotion by Mileti I., Serra A., Wolf N., Munoz-Martel V., Ekizos A., Palermo E., Arampatzis A. and Santuz A. (2020). This data set contains: a) the metadata with anonymized participant information; b) the raw EMG, already concatenated for the overground trials; c) the touchdown and lift-off timings of the recorded limb, d) the filtered and time-normalized EMG; e) the muscle synergies extracted via NMF; f) the code to process the data. In total, 120 trials from 30 participants are included in the data set.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset and resources

  • Modular Control of Human Movement During Running: An Open Access Data Set by Santuz A., Ekizos A., Janshen, L., Mersmann F., Bohm S., Baltzopoulos V. and Arampatzis A. (2018). This data set contains: a) the metadata with anonymized participant information; b) the raw EMG; c) the touchdown and lift-off timings of the recorded limb, d) the filtered and time-normalized EMG; e) the muscle synergies extracted via NMF; f) the code to process the data. Trials from 135 healthy and young adults (78 males, 57 females) are included in the data set.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset and resources

Gait Analysis and Motion Capture 🤸

Gait Analysis Markersets 🌐

TODO: add references and resources

  • CAST
  • IORGait
  • LAMB by Marco Rabuffetti et al. (2019).
  • SAFLo
  • T3Dg

Motion Capture Data Import and Processing

This section needs to be finalized.

  • c3dserver C++/MATLAB)

  • PyC3Dserver by Moon Ki Jung (2020). Python interface of C3Dserver software for reading and editing C3D motion capture files. DOI
    💾 source

  • ezc3d: An easy C3D file I/O cross-platform solution for C++, Python and MATLAB (C++/MATLAB/Python) by Benjamin Michaud et al. (2021). Ezc3d is a light and comprehensive library that allows to easily read and write c3d files. The C++ core includes an API for fast file I/O library, and convenient MATLAB and Python3 interfaces for researchers. It supports c3d files from the main biomechanics companies, namely: Vicon, Qualisys, Optotrak, BTS and XSens.
    📄 paper | :computer: documentation website | :floppy_disk: source

  • BTK - Biomechanical ToolKit by Arnault Barre and Stephane Armand (2014). One of the most versatile, robust and reliable libraries for reading, importing nad handling motion capture data. Written in C++ with MATLAB and Python bindings. A fork of this library is used for importing c3d in OpenSim.
    📄 paper | :computer: website 💾 source | :floppy_disk: conda | :floppy_disk: pyBTK (Python>=3.7)

  • MOKKA: GUI built on BTK functionalities. Allows visualisation of c3d contents and basic processing, such as filtering and event detection. Great open source alternative to Vicon Nexus for these functionalities.
    💻 (unofficial) tutorial by biomechanist.net

  • Kinetics Toolkit by Félix Chénier. Kinetics Toolkit is an open-source, pure-python package of integrated classes and functions that aims to facilitate research in biomechanics using python.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source | :floppy_disk: conda | :floppy_disk: PyPI

  • CMAS open-code by CMAS (Clinical Movement Analysis Society - UK & Ireland) is a project with the goal of creating an online platform where everyone interested in movement analysis can share coding resources. Include tools for anonymization, importing, calculating gait profile scores, etc.
    💾 source

  • fairmotion by Deepak Gopinath and Jungdam (2020). Fairmotion provides easy-to-use interfaces and tools to work with motion capture data. The objective of the library is to manage the complexity of motion representation, 3D transformations, file formats and visualization, and let users focus on high level learning tasks. Scarse documentation
    💾 code

  • motoNMS by Alice Mantoan et al. (2015). MATLAB tool that provides a complete, user friendly and highly configurable tool to automatically process experimental motion data from different laboratories in C3D format for their use into the OpenSim neuromusculoskeletal software.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • BiomechZoo by Philippe C Dixon. BiomechZoo is a user-customizable toolbox for the analysis of biomechanical data within the MatLab programming environment. Please take a look at the Wiki for setup information and user instructions.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • The CGM 2.i Project by Fabian Leboeuf et al. (2019). Python 🐍 implementation of an evolved conventional gait model.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Pyomeca by the S2M Lab. Pyomeca is a Python 🐍 library allowing you to carry out a complete biomechanical analysis; in a simple, logical and concise way. It enables extraction, processing and visualization of biomechanical data for use in research and education.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Dryft by Ryan Alcantara. Dryft is an open-source Python 🐍 and MATLAB package that corrects running ground reaction force signal drift. It also contains an optimized utility function dryft.signal.splitsteps() for identifying start/end of stance phase from vertical ground reaction force data without loops.
    📄 publication | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Practical Guide to Data Smoothing and Filtering written by Ton Van den Bogert.
    📄 publication

  • FootNet by Adrian R Rivadulla et al.. FootNet is a kinematics and deep-learning based algorithm for the detection of foot-strike and toe-off events during treadmill running. The repository includes notebooks to replicate model development, the algorithm and implementation examples in Python and a workaround for Matlab.
    📄 paper 💾 source

Marker Trajectory Gap filling

  • auto-marker-label by Alison Clouthier et al. (2021). This is a Python 🐍 algorithm that uses machine learning to automatically label optical motion capture markers. The algorithm can be trained on existing data or simulated marker trajectories. Data and code is provided to generate the simulated trajectories for custom marker sets.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • Automated Gap Filling and Tools for Motion Capture by the Sensor-Fusion team from EPIC lab @GeorgiaTech. Gap filling is based on inverse kinematics approach.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • MoGapFill implemented by Fabian Leboeuf (Python 🐍). Low dimensional Kalman smoother that fills gaps in motion capture marker trajectories based on Burke and Lasenby 2016 paper.
    📄 Burke's paper 2016 | :floppy_disk: source

Inertial Measurement Units

  • GaitPy by Matthew Czech. Read and process raw vertical accelerometry data from a sensor on the lower back during gait; calculate clinical gait characteristics.
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source

  • OpenSense is a workflow for analyzing movement with inertial measurement unit (IMU) data. It computes the motions of body segments based on inertial measurement unit (IMU) data in OpenSim. OpenSense provides tools for (i) reading and converting IMU sensors data into a single orientation format, (ii) associating and registering IMU sensors with body segments of an OpenSim model (as an IMU Frame), and (iii) performing inverse kinematics studies to compute joint angles. The OpenSense capabilities are available through the command line and through Matlab and Python scripting.
    📄 preprint | :page_facing_up: documentation and examples | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • HumanInertialPose Human whole-body pose estimation using Magnetic, Angular Rate, and Gravit (MARG) multi-sensor data. Provides utilities to process raw IMU/MARG data, perform sensor and sensor-to-segment calibration, multi-sensor fusion, skeleton kinematics, to obtaining the human pose. Contains low dependency python 🐍 code to deal with common inertial MoCap data (Xsens Analyse / Xsens MtManager), calculate metrics and visualize results.
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source

2D video analysis

  • Kinovea by Joan Charmant. Kinovea is a video player for sport analysis. It provides a set of tools to capture, slow down, study, compare, annotate and measure technical performances.
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source | :star: resources

  • Tracker - Video Analysis and Modeling Tool by The Open Source Physics Project. Tracker is an image and video analysis package and modeling tool that is built upon the Open Source Physics Java code library. Features include object tracking with position, velocity and acceleration overlays and graphs, special effect filters, multiple reference frames, calibration points and line profiles for analysis of spectra and interference patterns. It is designed to be used in introductory college physics labs and lectures.
    💻 website |

  • SkillSpector 1.3 is a video based motion and skill analysis tool for Windows. It allows video overlay for direct video on video comparison and 2D and 3D analysis, standard model definitions, semi-automatic digitizing using image processing techniques, analysis of linear and angular kinematic data, calculation of inertia, 3D representation of movement,simple video calibration.
    💻 website

Videoradiography (Model-based and Marker-based Tracking)

  • Autoscoper (Bone/Implant Tracking Software) by Bardiya Akhbari et. al (2021). Autoscoper is a 2D to 3D image registration software developed at Brown University in 2013 as a tool to investigate intra-articular joint motion during dynamic tasks. 3D position and orientation of bones and implants can be resolved in Autoscoper using volumetric density (CT) data and multi-view 2D radiographs acquired at high-speed (videoradiographs; VRG). So far, Autoscoper has been used for tracking the shoulder, spine, wrist, hip, knee, and ankle joints.
    📄 accuracy paper | :page_facing_up: protocol paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

Tracking in Ultrasound Video Frames

Fascicle Tracking

  • StradWin Stradwin is an experimental, cross-platform tool primarily for freehand 3D ultrasound acquisition, visualisation and elastography. However, Stradwin can also be used with 3D medical data of any sort: its segmentation and surface extraction facilities are particularly powerful. It can load most types of DICOM image files and has unique facilities to measure bone cortical thickness from CT data.
    💻 website

  • UltraTrack by Dominic Farris and Glen Lichtwark (2016). UltraTrack implements an affine extension to an optic flow algorithm to track movement of the muscle fascicle end-points throughout dynamically recorded sequences of images. The algorithm )previously described and tested for reliability) is implemented as software for tracking multiple fascicles in multiple muscles at the same time; correcting temporal drift in measurements; manually adjusting tracking results; saving and re-loading of tracking results and loading a range of file formats.
    📄 paper | :computer: website-software | :floppy_disk: source-algorithm

  • Automatic fascicle tracking algorithm by Drazan et al. (2019). The links include all the experimental data, tracking code, and tracked trials reported in the publication, presenting an automatic fascicle tracking algorithm quantifying gastrocnemius architecture during maximal effort contractions. DOI
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset and paper code | :floppy_disk: source

  • DL_Track_US by Paul Ritsche, Olivier Seynnes & Neil Cronin (2023). DL_Track_US: a python package to analyse muscle ultrasonography images. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(85), 5206. :page_facing_up: paper | :page_facing_up: preprint | :dvd: dataset: dataset & executable | :floppy_disk: source | :computer: website ⭐ Python tools

Muscle-Tendon Junction Tracking

  • py3dfreehandus by Cenni et al. (2019). A software package to track muscle tendon junctions in ultrasound images using optical flow.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source-code

  • deepMTJ by Leitner et al. (2020). Automatic muscle tendon junction tracking using deep learning.
    📄 paper | :page_facing_up: preprint | :dvd: trained networks | :floppy_disk: source-code

  • MTJtrack by Krupenevich et al. (2021). MTJtrack provides trained networks for tracking MTJ positions in B-mode ultrasound images using DeepLabCut.
    📄 paper | :dvd: trained networks

Muscle Parameter Segmentation in Ultrasound Images

Anatomical Cross Sectional Area

  • DeepACSA by Ritsche et al. (2022). DeepACSA provides trained models and a GUI for automated segmentation of muscle anatomical cross-sectional area.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset & executable | :floppy_disk: source-code | :computer: website

Modelling and Simulation 💻

Anthropometric Models 🧍

  • Repository of body segment parameter models by Will Robertson. Contains the raw data for a multitude of body segment parameter models (see repository for list).
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Yeadon's model by Chris Dembia et al. (2015). The human inertia model developed by Fred Yeadon in 1990.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • Hatze's model by Will Robertson. A Matlab implementation of Hatze's 1980 anthropometric body segment parameter model.
    📄 Hatze's paper | :floppy_disk: source

Multibody and Physics Engines 😴↙️🍎

  • Biorbd by Benjamin Michaud and Mickaël Begon (2020). This is a Biomechanical add-ons to the RigidBody Dynamics Library by Martin L. Felis. Written in C++, includes Python and MATLAB binders. A visualizer and an optimal control framework have been developed around this library.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • Bullet Physics by Erwin Coumans and Yunfei Bai (2016). Real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
    📄 Quick Start Guide | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Drake 🐉 by Russ Tedrake and the Drake Development Team (2019). C++ toolbox for analyzing the dynamics of our robots and building control systems for them, with a heavy emphasis on optimization-based design/analysis. Core development is now led by the Toyota Research Institute.
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source

  • MuJoCo by Emo Todorov for Roboti LLC. Initially it was used at the Movement Control Laboratory, University of Washington. MuJoCo is a commercial physics engine aiming to facilitate research and development in robotics, biomechanics, graphics and animation, and other areas where fast and accurate simulation is needed.
    💻 website | :star: plugin for importing OpenSim models

  • ODE (Open Dynamics Engine) by Russell L. Smith. Open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. It is fully featured, stable, mature and platform independent with an easy to use C/C++ API. It has advanced joint types and integrated collision detection with friction. ODE is useful for simulating vehicles, objects in virtual reality environments and virtual creatures. It is currently used in many computer games, 3D authoring tools and simulation tools.
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Pinocchio by Carpentier et al. (2019). Pinocchio is an open-source library (C++ with Python 🐍 bindings) for efficiently computing the dynamics (and derivatives) of articulated rigid-body models (robot, avatars, skeletal models, etc.). It implements algorithms following the methods described in Featherstone's 2008 book, and their derivatives.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • PyDy by Jason Moore. A tool kit written in the Python programming language that utilizes an array of scientific programs to enable the study of multibody dynamics.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source | :star: Human Standing Tutorial | :movie_camera: YouTube tutorials

  • RBDL (Rigid Body Dynamics Library) by Martin L. Felis (Heidelberg University). A multibody engine heavily inspired by the pseudo code of the book "Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithms" of Roy Featherstone.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • SimBody by Michael Sherman et al. (2011). Simboby is an open source, extensible, high performance toolkit including a multibody mechanics library aimed at the needs of biomedical researchers working in a variety of fields including neuromuscular, prosthetic, and biomolecular simulation.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

Computational Muscle Models :mechanical_arm:

  • Flexing Computational Muscle: Modeling and Simulation of Musculotendon Dynamics by Matthew Millard et al. (2013). Source code and benchmarks to compare computational speed and physiological accuracy of several muscle models in OpenSim.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source | :floppy_disk: Matlab version | :video_camera: Webinar

  • MyoSim by the Campbell Lab. MyoSim is an open source computer software for modeling the mechanical properties (force, shortening, power output) of striated muscles. The software models the behavior of half-sarcomeres by extending Huxley-based cross-bridge distribution techniques with Ca2+ activation and cooperative effects. MyoSim can also simulate arbitrary cross-bridge schemes set by the researcher.
    📄 paper | :computer: webpage | :floppy_disk: installation package (includes source) 💾 source (MATLAB version)

  • Virtual Muscle by Chen et al. (2000). Virtual Muscle provides a framework for constructing accurate muscle models that can be incorporated easily into complete neuromusculoskeletal systems. The muscle model includes motor nuclei that accept a single command input (e.g. net synaptic drive or EMG envelope) and apportion it into recruitment and frequency modulation of subgroups of motor units with type-specific properties, type-specific contractile elements that produce force as a function of firing frequency, length and velocity, passive elastic elements for passive muscle force, passive elastic elements for series-compliance of tendons and aponeuroses.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source | :page_facing_up: Manual

  • Volume Invariant Position-based Elastic Rods (VIPER) by Baptiste Angles et al. (2019). VIPER is a modified formulation of position-based rods to include elastic volumetric deformations. Rods can provide a compact alternative to tetrahedral meshes for the representation of complex muscle deformations, as well as providing a convenient representation for collision detection. Muscles can be modelled as a bundle of rods, for which a technique to automatically convert a muscle surface mesh into a rods-bundle is also presented. The method can run in real time.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source | :video_camera: video

Biomechanical and Neuro-musculoskeletal Simulation Software 🧠➡️🦵

  • The AnyBody Modeling System by AnyBody Technology. Commercial software for musculoskeletal modelling and simulation.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :page_facing_up: tutorials | :page_facing_up: Wiki | :star: model repository | :star: Python tools

  • AnimatLab - neuromechanical and neurorobotic simulator for building the body of a robot or biolgical organism in a physically accurate 3-D virtual world, and then layout a biologically realistic nervous system to control the animats behavior.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Artisynth by John Lloyd et al. Artisynth is a 3D mechanical modeling system implemented in Java that supports the combined simulation of multibody and finite element models (linear and nonlinear materials), together with contact and constraints.
    📄 paper | :page_facing_up: paper-downloadable | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Biomechanics of Bodies - biomechanical modelling package implemented in MATLAB that contains a human musculoskeletal model and enables biomechanical and musculoskeletal calculations.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

  • FreeBody by the Daniel Cleather and Anthony Bull, MSk Dynamics group, Imperial College London. FreeBody is a segment-based musculoskeletal model of the lower limb implementing TLEM anatomical dataset. FreeBody is a fully-open source Windows application and Matlab code that may be used as given or as a framework for the development of your own bespoke models.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

  • GaitSym by William Sellers (2014). Software for simulation of human and animal musculoskeletal biomechanics.
    📄 Config Reference Manual | :computer: Animal Simulation Laboratory website | :floppy_disk: source

  • MSMS Software for VR Simulations of Neural Prostheses and Patient Training and Rehabilitation by Rahman Davoodi and Gerald E. Loeb. MSMS is a software for modeling of paralyzed and prosthetic limbs and simulation of their movement under various neural control strategies. The simulations of MSMS models can be run in typical PCs to test and evaluate different prosthetic control strategies or in real-time PCs with stereoscopic displays to enable design engineers and prospective users to evaluate candidate neural prosthetic systems and learn to operate them before actually receiving them.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

  • MyoSuite by MyoSuite Team. An open source contact-rich framework for musculoskeletal motor control. Allow for the fast simulation of upper and lower extremity NMS model controlled by reinforcement learning policy.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • OpenSim by the National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research, Stanford University. Open source software for biomechanical analysis and neuromusculoskeletal simulations.
    📄 paper2007 | :page_facing_up: paper2019 | :computer: website | :computer: binaries | :floppy_disk: source

  • SCONE by Thomas Geijtenbeek. Open source software for predictive simulation of biological motion. It generates actuator patterns and motion trajectories that optimally perform a specific task, according to high-level objectives such as walking speed, pain avoidance, and energy efficiency.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :computer: binaries | :floppy_disk: source

Real-Time Neuro-musculoskeletal Simulation Software

  • OpenSimRT by Dimitar Stanev et al. (2021). OpenSim RT is a framework for real-time musculoskeletal kinematics and dynamics analysis using marker- and IMU-based technologies for applications in rehabilitation.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • RTOSIM by Claudio Pizzolato et al. (2017). RTOSIM is a set of efficient and extensible C++ libraries to connect OpenSim with different devices. RTOSIM can use data provided by motion capture systems to solve OpenSim inverse kinematics and inverse dynamics on a frame-by-frame basis. Multiple threads operate concurrently to remove idle times due to communications with input and output devices, and the data flow is automatically managed by RTOSIM in order to preserve data integrity and avoid race conditions.
    📄 paper-IK+ID | :page_facing_up: paper-CEINMS | :floppy_disk: source

Neuro-musculoskeletal Simulation Tools 🧠🔨

  • OpenSim JAM: A framework to simulate Joint and Articular Mechanics in OpenSim by Colin Smith (2020). OpenSim JAM is a collection of force component plugins, models, and executables (tools) that are designed to enable OpenSim musculoskeletal simulations that include detailed joint mechanics. The project extends the opensim-core capabilities to enable joint representations that include 6 degree of freedom (DOF) joints (without kinematic constraints) and explicit representations of articular contact and ligament structures.
    📄 reference papers for each component | :computer: website and binaries | :floppy_disk: source

  • EMGD-FE: EMG Driven Force Estimator by Luciano Menegaldo et al. (2014). EMG-FE is a MATLAB tool consisting of an open source graphical user interface for estimating isometric muscle forces in the lower limb using an EMG-driven model. Includes a graphical user interface.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :page_facing_up: users guide | :floppy_disk: source

  • CEINMS: Calibrated EMG-Informed Neuromusculoskeletal Modelling Toolbox by Claudio Pizzolato et al. (2015). OpenSim toolbox that implements various techniques for running musculoskeletal simulations from experimental measurements of electromyography (EMG). See CEINMS paper for list and examples.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • OpenSim Marker Placement Toolbox by Mark Price. An OpenSim toolbox implementing a motion capture marker placement refinement algorithm based on minimizing inverse kinematics tracking errors.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • CusToM: a Matlab toolbox for musculoskeletal simulation by Antoine Muller (2019). The Customizable Toolbox for Musculoskeletal simulation (CusToM) is a MATLAB toolbox aimed at performing inverse dynamics based musculoskeletal analyzes. It can perform inverse kinematics, inverse dynamics, prediction of ground reaction forces and muscle forces, compute kinematics from inertial measurement units, etc.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source | :star: workshop materials

  • Modeling musculoskeletal kinematic and dynamic redundancy using null space projection by Dimitar Stanev and Konstantinos Moustakas (2019). Python 🐍 methods for modeling, simulation and analysis of redundant musculoskeletal systems based on muscle space projection on segmental level reflexes and the computation of the feasible muscle forces for arbitrary movements. DOI
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Stiffness modulation of redundant musculoskeletal systems by Dimitar Stanev and Konstantinos Moustakas (2019). Python tool 🐍 implementing an approach that explores the entire space of possible solutions of the muscle redundancy problem using the notion of null space and rigorously accounts for the effect of muscle redundancy in the computation of the feasible stiffness characteristics. DOI
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • SynO: Synergy Optimization by Mohammad Shourijeh ad Benjamin Fregly (2020). SynO is a collection of MATLAB codes implementing a novel approach for estimating muscle forces/activations by imposing a synergy structure within optimization (termed “synergy optimization”).
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

Biomechanical Models

  • BASH - Biomechanical Animated Skinned Human by Schleicher et al. (2021). BASH allows to visualize human kinematics and muscle activity estimated through an OpenSim model using a 3D animated model deformed using skinning.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • Geyer's 2010 neuromuscular model by Hermut Geyer (2010). Simulink implementation of a neuromusculoskeletal model used in walking simulation with stretch reflexes.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • Multi-segment Foot and ankle model validated using biplanar videoradiography by Jayishni Maharaj et al. (2021). A multi-segment foot and ankle model consisting of the tibia, talus, calcaneus, midfoot, forefoot and toes, with a total of 7 degrees of freedom. Motion between foot segments were constrained with a single oblique axis to enable triplanar motion. The kinematic outputs were validated using biplanar videoradiography in seven healthy participants during walking and running.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: OpenSim model

Optimal Control and Trajectory Optimization 🚀

  • Bioptim (Biomechanical optimal control by Benjamin Michaud, François Bailly et al. (2021). Bioptim is an easy-to-use Python framework for biomechanical optimal control, handling musculoskeletal models. Relying on algorithmic differentiation and the multiple shooting formulation, bioptim interfaces nonlinear solvers to quickly provide dynamically consistent optimal solutions. The software is both computationally efficient (C++ core) and easily customizable, thanks to its Python interface. It allows to quickly define a variety of biomechanical problems such as motion tracking/prediction, muscle-driven simulations, parameters optimization, multiphase problems, etc. It is also intended for real-time applications such as moving horizon estimation and model predictive control.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source | :camera: webinar

  • Crocoddyl (Contact Robot Optimal Control by Differential Dynamic Library) by Carlos Mastalli and Rohan Budhiraja (2020). Croccoddyl is an optimal control library for robot control under contact sequence. Its solvers are based on novel and efficient Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) algorithms. Crocoddyl computes optimal trajectories along with optimal feedback gains. It uses Pinocchio for fast computation of robots dynamics and their analytical derivatives.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • OpenSim Moco by Chris Dembia, Nick Bianco and the OpenSim team (2019). OpenSim Moco is a software toolkit to solve optimal control problems with musculoskeletal models defined in OpenSim, including those with kinematic constraints. Using the direct collocation method, Moco can solve a wide range of problems, including motion tracking, motion prediction, and parameter optimization. The design of Moco focuses on ease-of-use, customizability, and extensibility. Just like OpenSim itself, Moco has interfaces in XML/command-line, Matlab, Python, Java, and C++.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source | :star: materials from preprint | :movie_camera: webinar

    • Moco simulations at University of Maryland by Ross Miller (2020). Models and codes from the University of Maryland "Neuromechanics Research Core" for performing optimal control simulations of human movement with OpenSim Moco software: 2D and 3D versions of the Rajagopal et al. (2016) model and code for performing "tracking" and "predictive" simulations of locomotion.
      💻 website

  • Rapid 3D muscle-driven predictive simulations by Antoine Falisse et al. (2019). This framework relies on numerical tools including direct collocation, implicit differential equations, and algorithmic differentiation, and generates predictive simulations of gait in about 35 minutes (single core of a standard laptop computer) with muscle-driven 3D models (29 degrees of freedom and 92 muscles). The code contains a series of example predictive simulations in which we varied objective function, musculoskeletal properties, and gait speed.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • FROST: Fast Robot Optimization and Simulation Toolkit by Hereid et al. (2016). FROST for MATLAB provides a general full-body dynamics gait optimization and simulation framework for bipedal walking robots using virtual constraints based feedback controllers. The Wolfram Mathematica backend enables generation of analytic expressions for multi-domain system dynamics and kinematics symbolically, compiled as .MEX files under MATLAB. FROST also features state-of-the-art direct collocation approaches for the full-order dynamics gait optimization problems to guarantee fast and reliable convergence.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Muscle Redundancy Solver by Friedl de Groote et al. (2016). An algorithm to estimate muscle tendon properties and/or compute muscle coordination by tracking experimental data with a musculoskeletal model assuming optimal control to solve for the muscle redundancy.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source | :floppy_disk: dev_repo

  • opty by Jason Moore and Ton van den Bogert (2018). Opty utilizes symbolic descriptions of ordinary differential equations expressed with SymPy to form the constraints needed to solve optimal control and parameter identification problems using the direct collocation method and non-linear programming.
    📄 paper | :computer: documentation | :floppy_disk: source

  • Data-tracking optimization using collocation by Yi-Chung Lin and Marcus Pandy (2017). This is a MATLAB package that can be used to perform data-tracking optimization using collocation method. The codes and models are available. The tracking results for one subject during walking and running are also provided.
    📄 paper | 💻 website | 💾 source

  • Optimal Control of Musculoskeletal Movement Using OpenSim & MATLAB by Leng-Feng Lee and Brian R. Umberger (2016). This package includes an approach for generating optimal control simulations of human movement using OpenSim and MATLAB based on the direct collocation approach. Models, results and a complete working example are provided.
    📄 paper | 💻 website | 💾 source

Subject-Specific Modelling

Segmentation of Medical Images 🧑‍🎨

  • 3DSlicer 3D Slicer is an open source software platform for medical image informatics, image processing, and three-dimensional visualization.
    📄 paper (Slicer v4) | :computer: website | :page_facing_up: Documentation | :video_camera: Youtube tutorials
    • Extensions of 3DSlicer:
      • SlicerMorph by Sara Rolfe et al. (2020). SliceMorph is a toolkit with the aim of retrieve, visualize, measure, annotate, and perform geometric morphometric analyses from high-resolution specimen data both from volumetric scans (CTs and MRs) as well as from 3D surface scanners effectively within 3D Slicer.
        📄 preprint | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source | :video_camera: tutorials
      • SlicerSALT (Slicer Shape AnaLysis Toolbox) by Vicory et al. (2018). SlicerSALT is open-source, free comprehensive software design for biomedical scientists to precisely locate shape changes in their imaging studies. SlicerSALT will enhance the intuitiveness and ease of use for such studies, as well as allow researchers to find shape changes with higher statistical power.
        📄 paper | :computer: website and tutorials | :floppy_disk: source
      • Nvidia AI-assisted annotation (AIAA) by NVIDIA.
        💾 source
  • Dragonfly by Object Research Systems. Dragonfly is a software platform for the intuitive inspection and processing of multi-scale multi-modality image data. Includes a Deep Learning tool for training deep models for image segmentation and regression tasks. It also offers rendering capabilities and extensibility through Python.
    💻 website | :video_camera: Video tutorials
  • ITK-Snap - :page_facing_up: paper | :video_camera: Video tutorials
  • InVesalius - :page_facing_up: paper list | :video_camera: Youtube tutorials
  • Materialise Mimics (commercial)
  • MITK - :page_facing_up: paper | :page_facing_up: tutorials
  • MITK-GEM is based on MITK but includes also mesh processing functionalities. Aimed to generation of finite element models.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :star: resources
  • Rhino3Dmedical commercial.
    📷 webinar
  • SASHIMI Segmentation 🍣 by Bart Bolsterlee. SASHIMI Segmentation is a MATLAB App for segmentation of multi-slice images.
  • Seg3D
  • Simpleware ScanIP (commercial).

Automatic Segmentation 🧙‍♂️

  • Biomedisa by Philipp Lösel et al. (2020). Biomedisa is a free and easy-to-use open-source online platform for segmenting large volumetric images, e.g. CT and MRI scans, developed by the Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies. The segmentation is performed based on a smart interpolation of sparsely pre-segmented slices taking into account the complete underlying image data. It can be used in addition to segmentation tools like Amira, ImageJ/Fiji and MITK.
    💻 website | :page_facing_up: paper | :floppy_disk: code

  • Personalized knee geometry modelling based on multi-atlas segmentation and mesh refinement by Nikolopoulos et al. (2020). Tools for performing automatic segmentation from MRI and geometry refinement targeting the human knee joint. The user can import an unsegmented MRI sequence and obtain the label maps as well as .stl and .msh files of the individual parts. This includes the femur, tibia and fibula bones, femoral and tibial cartilages, menisci and ligaments.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: code

  • Automatic subregional assessment of knee cartilage degradation by Thomas et al. (2020). 286 MRI volumes (multi-echo spin-echo T2-weighted) from 143 subjects from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (Kellgren-Lawrence grade of 0). Each MRI was segmented with a semi-automated process and refined by a radiologist. These segmentations were used as ground truth. A Convolutional Neural Network was used to learn MRI features predictive of cartilage location. Segmented cartilage was divided into 12 subregions.
    📄 pre-print | :floppy_disk: code

  • A New Straightforward Method for Automated Segmentation of Trabecular Bone from Cortical Bone in Diverse and Challenging Morphologies by Eva Herbst et al. (2021). Description of a method to automatically segment trabecular and cortical bone in micro-CT scans, using Avizo.
    📄 pre-print | :floppy_disk: code (Avizo recipe) | :dvd: test micro-CT scans

Manipulation, Processing and Comparison of Surface Meshes

  • Autodesk Netfabb

  • Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline. The amount of functionalities, features and support materials available for Blender is unparallelled in any other free and open source software of this kind.
    💻 website

  • Gmsh

  • gptoolbox - Geometry Processing Toolbox by Alec Jacobson. This is a MATLAB toolbox of useful functions for geometry processing. There are also tools related to constrainted optimization and image processing. Typically these are utility functions that are not stand alone applications.
    💻 website | 💾 source

  • MeshLab by Cignoni et al. (2008). MeshLab is open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes. It provides a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering, texturing and converting meshes. It offers features for processing raw data produced by 3D digitization tools/devices and for preparing models for 3D printing.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • MeshMixer

  • OpenFlipper by RWTH Aachen University (Prof Leif Kobbelt). OpenFlipper is an OpenSource multi-platform application and programming framework designed for processing, modeling and rendering of geometric data. More tools are available at the Graphics, Geometry and Multimedia software page
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Salome

  • CloudCompare - allows quantitative comparison of surface meshes.

  • SlicerSALT (Slicer Shape AnaLysis Toolbox) by Vicory et al. (2018). See description on 3DSlicer extensions section.

  • Trimesh by Michael Dawson-Haggerty et al. (2019). Trimesh is a pure Python (2.7-3.4+) 🐍 library for loading and using triangular meshes with an emphasis on watertight surfaces. The goal of the library is to provide a full featured and well tested Trimesh object which allows for easy manipulation and analysis.
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source

Resources for Building Biomechanical Models from Medical Images 👩‍💻

  • mri2psm by Manish Sreenivasa (2016). Open-source toolchain to create patient-specific models from MRI images.
    📄 paper (MRI2PSM, an open-source toolchain to create patient-specific rigid body models from MRI images. is cited in the paper, but not retrievable). | :floppy_disk: source

  • ModelFactory by Manish Sreenivasa (2018). A Matlab/Octave toolbox to create human body models.
    📄 preprint | :floppy_disk: source

  • Musculotendon parameter optimizer by Luca Modenese et al. (2016). Optimization based technique that adjusts muscle parameters of musculoskeletal models. It can be used to improve linearly scaled models or to obtain reasonable estimation of optimal fiber lengths and tendon slack lengths in models generated from medical images.
    📄 paper | :dvd: dataset | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source (MATLAB) | :floppy_disk: source (OpenSim plugin) with documentation

  • NMSBuilder by Giordano Valente et al. (2017). Freely available software to create subject-specific musculoskeletal models for OpenSim from 3D geometries. NMSBuilder is based on ALBA (Agile Library for Biomedical Applications) an open-source rapid application development framework for computer-aided medicine written in C++.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :movie_camera: YouTube tutorial

  • Resources for creating musculoskeletal models from segmentations by Luca Modenese et al. (2018). This includes materials (step-to-step guide and Matlab scripts) to guide users in creating musculoskeletal models of the lower limb from medical images using a workflow that includes MeshLab, MATLAB and NMSBuilder.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :page_facing_up: step-by-step guide | :floppy_disk: scripts (MATLAB)

  • STAPLE toolbox by Luca Modenese and Jean-Baptiste Renault et al. (2021). STAPLE (Shared Tools for Automatic Personalised Lower Extremity modelling) consists of a collection of methods for generating skeletal models from three-dimensional bone geometries, usually segmented from medical images. The methods are currently being expanded to create complete musculoskeletal models. Toolbox is currently in beta version. DOI
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source (beta)

Automatic Definition of Bony Landmarks and Reference Systems 💀

  • Subburaj's curvature/spatial relation matrix method by Maximilian Fischer et al. (2019). MATLAB implementation of Subburaj's curvature/spatial relation matrix method for the automatic identification of pelvic landmarks.
    📄 Subburaj's paper 2008 | :page_facing_up: Subburaj's paper 2009 | :floppy_disk: source

  • Pelvic Landmark Identification by Maximilian Fischer et al. (2019). This is a fully automatic methods for identification of landmarks on surface models of the pelvis. DOI
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • GIBOC-Knee toolbox by Jean-Baptiste Renault et al. (2018). The toolbox includes three automatic algorithms for reference system identification on femur, tibia and patella. Each algorithm is implemeted with 3 variants, and compared against five other methods from the literature on a dataset of 24 lower-limb CT-scans (not included in the repository).
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

Uncertainty Quantification in Musculoskeletal Simulations ❓

  • Probabilistic Tool for Considering Patient Populations & Model Uncertainty by Casey A. Myers et al. (2015). This is a probabilistic tool to assess model parameter uncertainty and intersubject variability.

    📄 paper | :page_facing_up: Users Guide | :computer: website

  • Probabilistic Musculoskeletal Modeling module (PMM) by Giordano Valente et al. (2014). A description is on the supplementary materials of the paper.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

Meshers of Surface Models

Statistical Shape Modelling 🦴

  • Deformetrica is a software (Python tool 🐍) for the statistical analysis of 2D and 3D shape data. Deformetrica comes with three main applications: registration, atlas construction and geodesic regression.
    📄 list of papers | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Musculoskeletal Atlas Project (MAP) by Ju Zhang et al. (2014). Open-source software framework in Python 🐍 with plug-in architecture for creating musculoskeletal models. The client-side application (MAP Client) facilitates dicom and motion capture integration, registration tools, and meshing capabilities, and uses statistical shape modelling (based on the Melbourne Femur Collection, which consists of 320 full body CT scans) to provide a best-match to mocap and medical imaging data and generate surface geometry to generate an OpenSim model. Not maintained.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :computer: docs | :floppy_disk: source | :star: plugins

  • Scalismo by the Graphics and Vision Research Group at the University of Basel. Scalismo is a library for statistical shape modeling and model-based image analysis in Scala.
    💻 website (includes tutorials) | :floppy_disk: source

  • SPHARM-PDM Toolbox is a tool that computes point-based models using a parametric boundary description for the computing of Shape analysis. It is now available as a 3D Slicer extension and as part of SlicerSALT module.
    💻 SPHARM-PDM website | :computer: SlicerSALT website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Statistical Shape Model of the Knee by Lowell Smoger et al. (2019). A statistical shape and alignment model was created for the structures of the knee: the femur, tibia and patella, associated articular cartilage, and soft tissue structures for a training set of 50 subjects/specimens. The statistical model describes intersubject anatomic variability in the shape and alignment of the knee structures and provides the ability to automatedly generate the geometry for a joint-level finite element analysis for members of the training set or virtual subjects derived from the statistical model, thus facilitating population-based evaluations.
    💻 website

  • Statistical Shape Modelling Research Toolkit (SSMRT) by Daniel Nolte and the MSk Dynamics group, Imperial College London (2016). The toolkit packages a set of powerful technologies that may be used to predict shape using one of the provided models or to create your own SSM.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

  • ShapeWorks by the University of Utah. The ShapeWorks software is an open-source distribution of a new method for constructing compact statistical point-based models of ensembles of similar shapes that does not rely on any specific surface parameterization.
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Shape Model Builder by Emmanuel Audenaert (2019). Framework to develop shape models in MATLAB.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • Statistical Shape Models and Statistical Density Models of the Shoulder Bones by Pendar Soltanmohammadi et al. J Biomech Eng. (2020). Project making available a statistical shape model (SSM) and statistical density model (SDM) of the humerus and scapula bones through a MATLAB app. Models are based on 57 male (20 pairs) and 18 female shoulders (1 pair) from 54 donors. The SSM will create a surface model whose shape is sensitive to the normalized principal component (PC) scores chosen in the app. The SDM will apply node-by-node HU values to a 3D template volumetric mesh (from the average geometry), allowing you to visualize the bone density distribution. The output files can be visualized using open-source software like ParaView.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

  • A statistical shape model of the healthy first carpometacarpal joint by Marco Schneider et al. (2015). CT image data and segmented point clouds of 50 carpometacarpal (CMC) bones from the dominant wrists and thumbs of 40 right hands and 10 left hands of 50 healthy non-osteoarthritic volunteers. This project contains instructions, python scripts, and example data for generating statistical shape models (SSM) using the GIAS2 library.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

Finite Element Analysis

  • Finite Element Zürich (FEZ) is an international network, started by Eva Herbst, Nicole Webb and Dylan Bastiaans (2021), aiming to showcase outstanding research using dynamic FEA simulations and to ensure that these advanced methods are accessible to all scientists in computational biomechanics.
    💻 GitHub Resources 💻 website

Finite Element Analysis Software

  • Abaqus (commercial).

  • Ansys (commercial).

  • Strand7 (commercial).

  • CMISS, an interactive computer program for Continuum Mechanics, Image analysis, Signal processing and System Identification, by the Auckand Bioengineering Institute (ABI). Development stopped in 2012 but it is still employed in several publications. Examples and documentation are available at the main website.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

  • FEAP: A Finite Element Analysis Program by University of Berkeley. FEAP is a general purpose finite element analysis program which is designed for research and educational use. Source code of the full program is available for compilation using Windows (Intel compiler), LINUX or UNIX operating systems, and Mac OS X based Apple systems (GNU and Intel compilers).
    💻 website

  • MOFEM by Lukasz Kaczmarczyk et al. (2019). MOFEM is an open source (GNU LGPL) C++ finite element library capable of dealing with complex multi-physics problems with arbitrary levels of approximation and refinement. MoFEM can read various input file formats, and work with preprocessors like Gmsh, Salome, Cubit, and many more. Also, it can be used for parallel processing on desktop computers and high-performance clusters.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • Z88 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Rieg and team. The free open source program Z88OS is suitable as a really basic FEM program for learning the fundamentals of finite element analysis by examining and, if necessary, by changing or expanding the code. Z88Aurora®, which is based on the structures of Z88, is a user interface for Z88OS. Z88Arion® is another related tool, a freeware topology optimization program.
    💻 website

  • Code_Aster is a free and open source finite element suite sponsored by EDF R&D that offers a full range of multiphysical analysis and modelling methods including thermomechanical, seismic analysis, porous media, acoustics, fatigue, stochastic dynamics, etc. Its modelling, algorithms and solvers are constantly under development. The encapsulation of these methods in the Salome7 graphical user interface makes it particularly approachable.
    💻 website | :computer: Salome_meca | :floppy_disk: source | :page_facing_up: Aster leaflet | :page_facing_up: Salome 7 leaflet | :movie_camera: tutorials | :movie_camera: tutorials

  • FEBio by Maas et al. (2012). FeBio is a software tool, developed by Jeffrey Weiss' lab and Gerard Ateshian's lab, for nonlinear finite element analysis in biomechanics and biophysics and is specifically focused on solving nonlinear large deformation problems in biomechanics and biophysics. Aside from structural mechanics, it can also solve problems in mixture mechanics (i.e. biphasic or multiphasic materials), fluid mechanics, reaction-diffusion, and heat transfer. It can also solve coupled physics problems, including fluid-solid interactions. FEBio Studio is the main software tool for developing, running, and analyzing FEBio models, offering a graphical user interface for interacting with the FEBio software.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source | :movie_camera: Youtube channel

Finite Element Libraries

  • FreeFEM by Frédéric Hecht Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Sorbonne University, Paris. FreeFEM is a partial differential equation solver for non-linear multi-physics systems in 1D, 2D, 3D and 3D border domains (surface and curve).
  • Firedrake by the departments of Mathematics, Computing, and Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, the Department of Mathematics at Baylor University, the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington and the broad community of Firedrake users. Firedrake is an automated system for the solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method (FEM).
  • FEniCS Project by the FEniCS Community. FEniCS is a popular open-source (LGPLv3) computing platform for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). FEniCS enables users to quickly translate scientific models into efficient finite element code using high-level Python and C++ interfaces.
  • deal.II is C++ software library supporting the creation of finite element codes and an open community of users and developers.
  • MFEM is a free, lightweight, scalable C++ library for finite element methods.
  • GLVis: is a lightweight tool for accurate and flexible finite element visualization, based on the MFEM library.

Finite Element Analysis Software Tools

  • BVPy: A FEniCS-based Python package to ease the expression and study of boundary value problems in Biology. by Florian Gacon et al. (2021). BVPy is a python library to easily implement and study numerically Boundary Value Problems and Initial Boundary Value Problems through the Finite Element Method. BVPy proposes an intuitive Application Programming Interface (API) to harness andcombine the core functionalities of three powerful libraries: FEniCS (provides the core data structures and solving algorithms), Gmsh (defines the domains and their meshing) and and Meshio (handles data reading and writing).
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • BoneMat developed at Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna, Italy. Bonemat is a freeware that maps on a Finite Element mesh bone elastic properties derived from Computed Tomography images. Bonemat can import CT images and FE models, interactively visualise them, and export the updated FE mesh once bone properties have been mapped. From this 3.2 version, Bonemat supports import/export to and from both Ansys and Abaqus, perhaps the two most used commercial FE packages.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

  • py_bonemat_abaqus by Elise Pegg from the University of Bath, UK. This 🐍 python package provides tools to add material properties of bone to an ABAQUS finite element model input file, where the modulus of each element is defined based upon its corresponding CT data using the Hounsfield Unit (HU) and input parameters. The package aims to be equivalent to Bonemat software developed by researchers in Bologna, Italy, but tailored for ABAQUS finite element users
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • bonemapy by Michael Hogg. Bonemapy is an ABAQUS plug-in to map bone properties from CT scans to 3D finite element bone/implant models. This is typically used for applying heterogeneous material properties to the bone model.
    💾 source

  • GIBBON Toolbox by Kevin Moerman. GIBBON (The Geometry and Image-Based Bioengineering add-On) is an open-source MATLAB toolbox that includes an array of image and geometry visualization and processing tools and is interfaced with free open source software such as TetGen, for robust tetrahedral meshing, and FEBio and Abaqus for finite element analysis. The combination provides a highly flexible image-based modelling environment and enables advanced inverse finite element analysis.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • LMG: Lumbar Model Generator by Carolina Lavecchia et al. (2017). LMG is a MATLAB toolbox for semi-automatic generation of lumbar finite element geometries. It generates the geometrical model of the lumbar spine (from the vertebrae L1 to the L5 including the intervertebral disc IVD), the surface models of the bodies involved (STL files) and the solid meshed model, generated with hexahedral elements for the IVD and tetrahedral elements for the vertebrae.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • MuscleForceDirection OpenSim plugin by Luca Modenese et al. (2013). This is an OpenSim plugin that extracts the muscle lines of action of user-selected muscles for a given kinematics. It was created to help setting up finite element models that are consistent with musculoskeletal models.
    📄 paper2013 | :page_facing_up: paper2015 | :computer: website | :floppy_disk: source

  • ReadySim by Donald Hume et al. (2020). ReadySim provides a means for researchers to perform musculoskeletal simulations directly in a finite element framework. The software uses MATLAB and Python to interface with ABAQUS/Explicit input and output files and includes modules for model segment scaling, kinematics estimation, and muscle force optimization. The JobQueue API allows for asynchronous process control via MATLAB to parallelize optimization problems and improve computational runtime when possible.
    📄 paper | :computer: website

  • Surrogate Contact Modeling Toolbox by Ilan Eskinazi and Benjamin Fregly (2016). This opensource toolbox provides researchers with the capabilities to construct and use surrogate contact models, including multiple domains for sampling including out-of-contact configurations, a multi-threaded sampler that makes use of FEBio's contact modeling capabilities, flexible specification of surrogate model inputs and outputs, and architecture, parallelized training, testing module and surrogate models portable as DLLs.
    💻 website | 💾 source | :computer: website

  • Gridap: An extensible Finite Element toolbox in Julia by Santiago Badia1 and Francesc Verdugo (2020).
    📄 paper | :page_facing_up: Users' Guide | :floppy_disk: code

Finite Element Models

  • PIPER Child Human Body Model: Child finite element model scalable to different ages and posture, used to to study pediatric response to impact. This model is used for crash reconstruction studies.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • Orthotropic Femur Model by Diogo Geraldes et al. (2015). A complete continuum heterogeneous orthotropic finite element model of the standardised femur, with material properties and directionality resulting from a mechanical loading environment incorporating multiple daily living activities. It is provided as mesh with material properties (similar to Abaqus input file).
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • The "Standardised Femur" model by Marco Viceconti. The standardized femur is the 3D surface model of a femoral bone analogue (mod. #3103) produced by Pacific Research Labs (Vashon Island, Washington, USA) which was for a long while the "de facto" standard in experimental orthopaedic biomechanics. Much experimental data based on this bone analogue are available in the literature; this geometry is proposed as a reference for orthopaedic biomechanics finite element studies.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: source

  • The "Muscle Standardised Femur" model by Marco Viceconti. This is a version of the Standardised Femur with muscle insertions modelled as separate regions (surface patches). This makes much easier to create finite element models in which the muscles insertion areas are accurately modelled.
    📄 paper1 | :page_facing_up: paper2 | :floppy_disk: source

Statistical Analysis

This section needs to be improved.

  • G*Power

  • spm1d: package for one-dimensional statistical Parametric Mapping.

  • SPSS Statistics (commercial)

  • PCA of Waveforms and Functional PCA: A Primer for Biomechanics by John Warmenhoven et al. (2020). Scripts presenting functional principal components analysis (fPCA) and PCA of waveforms on an exemplar biomechanical data set.
    📄 paper | :floppy_disk: code

  • JASP (@JASPStats): An open-source low-cost alternative to commercial statistical software.

  • jamovi (@jamovistats): An open-source statistical software platform based on R, making it accessible to users who are not familiar with R.

  • R (@_R_Foundation): A free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

  • RStudio #Posit (@posit_pbc): An IDE for R, including a console, syntax-highlighting editor, and tools for plotting and debugging.

Scientific Data Visualization

  • Paraview

  • Mayavi - Python tool 🐍

  • OpenCmiss

  • ImageJ - TO ADD DESCRIPTION
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source * BoneJ plugin a plugin for bone image analysis in ImageJ by Doube et al. (2017). :computer: website | :floppy_disk: code

  • Fiji - version of ImageJ with pre-built plugins.
    💻 website | :floppy_disk: source

  • StradView by Machine Intelligence Laboratory of Cambridge University, Department of Engineering. StradView was developed from Stradwin, which is a tool for freehand 3D ultrasound recording and visualisation. Stradwin is also a useful tool for visualisation from 3D medical data of any sort. It can load most types of DICOM data or image sequences, and produce very high quality surface models which can also be turned into movies using scripts. It can also be used for cortical bone mapping from DICOM CT data.
    💻 website | :page_facing_up: How-To

  • MicroDicom: MicroDicom is application for primary processing and preservation of medical images in DICOM format. It is equipped with most common tools for manipulation of DICOM images and it has an intuitive user interface. Free for use and accessible to everyone for non-commercial use.

  • SPIERS (Serial Palaeontological Image Editing and Rendering System) by Mark Sutton et al. (2012). SPIERS is a package of three programs for the digital visualisation and analysis of tomographic (serial image) datasets, such as those obtained from serial-grinding of specimens, or from CT scanning.
    💻 website paper 💾 source |

Reproducibility 💎

  • Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? by Jeffrey M. Perkel (2020). Article including a reproducibility checklist and other interesting considerations orinating from the ten year challenge.
    📄 paper | :page_facing_up: ten-years-challenge

  • Commentary on the Integration of Model Sharing and Reproducibility Analysis to Scholarly Publishing Workflow in Computational Biomechanics by Erdemir et al. (2016). Two manuscripts on computational biomechanics were submitted together with the employed models and shared with the scientific reviewers. In addition to the standard review of the manuscripts, the reviewers downloaded the models and contributed to a simulation reproducibility report.
    📄 paper

  • Perspectives on Sharing Models and Related Resources in Computational Biomechanics Research by Erdemir et al. (2018). The paper tries to understand current perspectives in the biomechanics community for the sharing of computational models and related resources. Opinions on opportunities, challenges, and pathways to model sharing, particularly as part of the scholarly publishing workflow, were sought through short opinion pieces of a group of journal editors and investigators active in computational biomechanics.
    📄 paper

  • Sustainable computational science: the ReScience initiative is a platinum open-access peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research, promoting new and open-source implementations in order to ensure that the original research is reproducible.
    💻 RESCIENCE C website 📄 paper | :floppy_disk: GitHub page

  • Reproducibility in simulation -based prediction of natural knee mechanics by Erdemir et al. (2021). This project aims for understanding the influence of modelers’ approaches and decisions (essentially their "art") throughout the lifecycle of modeling and simulation. It will demonstrate the uncertainty of delivering consistent simulation predictions when the founding data to feed into models remain the same. The project site also aims to be a hub to provide an overview of resources for modeling & simulation of the knee joint.
    📄 paper | :computer: website | :star: project wiki

  • Reproducibility PI Manifesto by Lorena Barba (2012). Slides of the talk Reproducibility in Computational and Experimental Mathematics at the ICERM workshop outlining a list of commitment that principal investigators could take to ensure reproducibility.
    💻 website | :page_facing_up: blog-repro-pack-example | :bar_chart: slides

  • Reproducible computational environments using containers workshop by Software Carpentries, held at Imperial College London in 2020. The workshop focused on the use of containers with the goal of using them to effect reproducible computational environments. Such environments are useful for ensuring reproducible research outputs and for simplifying the setup of complex software dependencies across different systems.
    💻 website

  • Make code accessible with cloud services by Jeffrey M. Perkel. This Nature article describes some technical solutions applicable for making the results of a paper accessible and reproducible for other scientistis.
    📄 paper | :computer: Suggested Services:

  • How to build a MATLAB dockerfile: detailed instruction on how to run MATLAB in a container. Requires a license.
    💻 instructions | :star: container including Mathworks dependencies (NO MATLAB)

  • Resources that helps in choosing a license for shared resources:

    • Choose a license by GitHub Inc. This is a website with can help you choosing the license for your shared data based the intended use that you want to allow.
    • CreativeCommons by Creative Commons. This website can guide you in the process of choosing a Creative Commons license based on your preferences.

  • Open for Science by Kevin Moerman (2021). This is a presentation aimed at informing academics about the benefits of open science and how to be an open scientist.
    📹YouTube video | :bar_chart:slides

Good practices for credible modeling

  • Credible practice of modeling and simulation in healthcare: ten rules from a multidisciplinary perspective by Erdemir et al. (2020). The paper provides Ten Rules for credible practice of modeling and simulation in healthcare developed from a comparative analysis by the Committee’s multidisciplinary membership, followed by a large stakeholder community survey.
    📄 paper | :computer: examples

  • Good Simulation Practices by In Silico World. Good Practices are consensus documents produced by a group of experts – organised in a formal or informal Community of Practice. A group of experts coordinated by the Avicenna Alliance and the VPH Institute is developing the first proposal for Good Simulation Practice. At the link a list of relevant documents is presented.
    💻 list of documents

Societies and Initiatives 🏛️

Miscellaneous Online Resources

Blogging platforms

More Datasets and repositories

Sandbox

DTI and fibre tractography

  • https://github.com/bartbols/muscle_architecture_DTI

  • http://dsi-studio.labsolver.org/

  • MHEALTH (Mobile Health) dataset by Oresti Banos et al. (University of Granada). MHEALTH is devised to benchmark techniques dealing with human behavior analysis based on multimodal body sensing (acceleration, rate of turn and magnetic field orientation at the limbs and 2-lead ECG measurements on the chest). It comprises body motion and vital signs recordings for ten volunteers of diverse profile while performing several physical activities.
    📀 dataset

Contributing

Have anything in mind that you think is awesome biomechanics and would fit in this list? Feel free to send a pull request or open an Issue.

How to contribute

The easiest way to contribute to this list is by describing what you would like to add to the list at this link. Create a new Issue and add a weblink and a short description for the resource you have in mind. We will add the item for you.

Alternatively, if you use Git or GitHub, feel free of contributing as by standard GitHub workflow:

  1. forking this repository
  2. creating your own branch, where you make your modifications and improvements
  3. once you are happy with the new feature you have implemented create a pull request

Resources for learning how to contribute

  • If you want to contribute but you are not familiar with Git, the Software Carpentry Lessons are a perfect place to start with Git and GitHub.
  • If you have used Git before but you are not familiar with GitHub, you can check resources like "First Contributions" and learn how to contribute to existing projects.
  • If you are not familiar with the Markdown format used in this document you can quickly learn it from cheatsheets like this one.

Items suggested template

If you are adding elements please use (roughly) this template or the format of similar items in the same subsection of the list:

* **Template: DatasetName** by Authors (year). Description. [![DOI](yourZenodoDOI)]</br>
:page_facing_up: [paper](doi/link_to_paper) |
:dvd: [dataset](link_to_dataset) |
:computer: [website](link_to_website) |
:floppy_disk: [code/source](link_to_source_code) |
:star: [resources](link_to_resources)

so that it will look roughly like this:

License

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A curated, public list collecting resources for biomechanics and human motion: datasets, processing tools, software for simulation, educational videos, lectures, etc.