Welcome to the Visualization Group at the University of Magdeburg
The group was established in March 2003 and is headed by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Preim.
The visualization group plays an active role in the bachelor and master programs of computational visualistics, visual computing, Medizintechnik, Medical Systems Engineering and Data and Knowledge Engineering.
We regularly offer lectures on Visualization, Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, Medical Visualization, Computer-Supported Diagnosis and Treatment and Visual Analytics in Healthcare. Our research is focussed on visualization and interaction techniques for medical education, diagnosis and therapy planning, rehabilitation and epidemiology.
News
- Survey Article on Metaphors in MedVis Completed
Our article “A Survey of Medical Visualization through the Lens of Metaphors” was accepted at IEEE TVCG. The image shows a visual representation of the surgical control tower, a metaphor developed at ICCAS in Leipzig.
- New Journal Paper Accepted
We are happy to announce that our paper on visual storytelling techniques in spatio-temporal data stories was recently accepted at the Computer Graphics Forum. Adapting existing design spaces, we analyzed 130 online stories to distill the most common techniques used in them:
B. Mayer, N. Steinhauer, B. Preim, M. Meuschke: A Characterization of Interactive Visual Data Stories With a Spatio-Temporal Context - Mareen Allgaier@ISMAR, Sydney, 18.10.2023
Mareen presented her paper on “LiVRSono – Virtual Reality Training with Haptics for Intraoperative Ultrasound”. This paper is joint work with physicians from the University hospital Mainz, with Sylvia Saalfeld from Ilmenau university and Christian Hansen from the VR/AR group.
It is the first ISMAR contribution from the Vis group. - New member in the VIS group
Welcome to Kai Ostendorf, our new staff member. Kai brings considerable experience in vessel visualization and image analysis, primarily related to Aortic dissections where he collaborates with our former staff member, Dr. Mistelbauer from the radiology department of Stanford University. - Vis Group at VCBM
Our group was present with three papers and talks at this year’s VCBM-workshop (vcbm.org).
The first paper is a cooperation with the University Medical Center and deals with visualization support for tumor board preparation and discussion
based on an analysis of the current patients’ history and the whole database of previously treated patients.
The second and third paper are on narrative medical visualization. First we discussed different variants to convey the growth of vascular pathologies and tumors. The final paper presents our experiences with generating characters, in particular representing patients and their development over time.Visual analytics to support treatment decisions in late-stage melanoma patients (Link Tumor Boards in Dermatology (eg.org))
Calida Pereira, Uli Niemann, Braun Andreas, Miriam Mengoni, Thomas Tüting, Bernhard Preim, Monique Meuschke.
Communicating pathologies and growth to a general audience (Link Communicating Pathologies and Growth (eg.org))
Sarah Mittenentzwei, Sophie Mlitzke, Kai Lawonn, Bernhard Preim, Monique Meuschke.
Reflections on AI-assisted character design for data-driven medical stories (Link Character Design for Medical Stories (eg.org))
Beatrice Budich, Laura Garrison, Bernhard Preim, Monique Meuschke.
- Goodbye and Thank you!
Patrick pioneered the use of advanced 3D interaction and Virtual Reality in our group, dealing with a wide range of applications in medicine (heart surgery, hand and skull anatomy, liver surgery) and beyond. In particular, his work as key developer in an EU project on radiochemistry is influential. Moreover, he developed a 3D puzzle for reconstructing an essential part of Magdeburg’s cathedral – a system that is still presented in the cathedral. After nine years as PhD and Post-Doc., Patrick now extends his freelancing work that he started years ago. We wish him the best of luck for his future!
- The Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences 2023 – 2nd Place
- The Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences 2023 – 3rd Place
- New members in the VIS groupWe are happy to announce that Janine Zöllner and Jorik Jakober have joined the VIS group to pursue their PHD’s in the area of application-based Virtual Reality research. Janine will be working on radiochemistry applications and Jorik in the medical domain.
- GoodbyeWe say goodbye to our colleagues Sylvia Saalfeld and Sebastian Wagner. Sylvia went to the Technical University of Ilmenau to lead the group for Computational Medicine. Sebastian went to work in the industry. We thank Sylvia and Sebastian for the scientific work they contributed to our group and for the great time we had together with them as our colleagues. We wish them all the best for their future!
