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ConvertVTKToUSD gains an opt-in output_tet_mesh flag that writes a
tetrahedral unstructured grid as a UsdGeomTetMesh (tet indices, USD-computed
surface faces, per-frame points and displayColor) instead of its extracted
surface. Default behavior is unchanged.

Tutorial 18 now exports the tet mesh to USD, colors it by log10 von Mises
stress with a dark-red-to-yellow colormap, smooths the nodal stress over mesh
edges, and median-filters only the rendered surface so smoothing cannot
invert tetrahedra.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for exporting tetrahedral volume meshes directly to USD as UsdGeom.TetMesh.
    • Added an option to preserve tetrahedral connectivity and bypass surface extraction.
    • Added validation for tetrahedra-only input meshes and documented incompatibilities with surface conversion and masking.
  • Improvements

    • Enhanced heart-physics tutorials with clearer logarithmic stress visualization, smoothing, filtering, and improved stress coloring.
    • Reduced distracting deprecation warnings during surface remeshing.

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The converter can write tetrahedral meshes to USD while preserving tetrahedron connectivity. The heart tutorial updates stress smoothing, rendering, and export. Surface remeshing now suppresses warnings matching _connectivity_array.

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Tetrahedral USD Output and Stress Visualization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tetrahedral input and connectivity
src/monai_physio/convert_vtk_to_usd.py, src/monai_physio/vtk_to_usd/data_structures.py
ConvertVTKToUSD adds the output_tet_mesh option and validates that enabled input contains only tetrahedra. It passes tetrahedron connectivity through MeshData and skips surface extraction for this output.
USD tetrahedral mesh authoring
src/monai_physio/vtk_to_usd/usd_mesh_converter.py
create_mesh creates a UsdGeom.TetMesh when tet_vertex_indices is present. It authors tetrahedron indices, determines orientation from inverted elements, and authors surface face indices.
Heart tutorial stress processing and export
tutorials/tutorial_18_duke_heart_physics_informed_motion_infer.py
The tutorial smooths nodal stress, renders and exports a clamped logarithmic stress field, and median-filters surface positions before screenshot generation.

ACVD Warning Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Warning handling during remeshing
src/monai_physio/process_surface_mesh.py
ACVD clustering for each connected surface component runs inside a warning-capture context that ignores warnings matching _connectivity_array. The cluster-count calculation remains unchanged.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ConvertVTKToUSD
  participant MeshData
  participant create_mesh
  ConvertVTKToUSD->>MeshData: Passes tetrahedron vertex connectivity
  MeshData->>create_mesh: Provides connectivity for mesh creation
  create_mesh->>create_mesh: Creates UsdGeom.TetMesh and authors tetrahedron topology
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Tetrahedral export can fail on a supported USD installation or with an inherited cell stress tensor, and changing connectivity between frames can produce incorrect output. Resolve these risks before merging.

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Review comments at @src/monai_physio/convert_vtk_to_usd.py:
- Line 92: Update from_files to accept and forward the output_tet_mesh option to
ConvertVTKToUSD, defaulting it to false. In the mesh-processing branch, only
extract the surface when extract_surface is enabled and output_tet_mesh is
disabled, preserving unstructured tetrahedral meshes for tetrahedral output.

Review comments at @src/monai_physio/vtk_to_usd/usd_mesh_converter.py:
- Around line 121-126: Update create_time_varying_mesh to compare
tet_vertex_indices for tetrahedral frames and detect connectivity changes
independently of surface-face arrays. When tetrahedral connectivity changes,
author time samples for both tetVertexIndices and the corresponding surface
topology attribute, while preserving existing behavior for unchanged
connectivity and non-tetrahedral meshes.
- Line 158: Raise the project’s usd-core minimum dependency to an OpenUSD
version whose TetMesh Python wrapper exposes FindInvertedElements, ensuring the
call in the tetrahedral conversion flow remains supported across all allowed
installations.

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- Around line 323-324: Serialize the complete pyacvd.Clustering
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- Around line 436-437: Update the stress computation and lookup around
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aylward merged commit 61263ee into Project-MONAI:main Oct 21, 2026
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