The research project for the visualization of vessels covers different research areas, e.g., the visualization of intravascular image data and model-based vessel visualization techniques.
Intravascular imaging was supported by the research campus STIMULATE. The intravascular imaging includes optical coherence tomography and intravascular ultrasound. The obtained medical image data provide valuable information about the vessel wall and its morphology which play an important role for diagnosis and evaluation of cardiovascular diseases like atherosclerotic plaque.
Jan Kretschmar, Phd student in Erlangen and staff member at SIEMENS, refined model-based vessel visualization techniques, developed special techniques to enable blood flow simulations and developed new projection-based techniques, that improve the conventional CPR. He cooperates with us leading to a number of joint publications.
Previous projects cover direct volume rendering techniques and transfer function adaptions as well as the vessel visualization with implicit surfaces. The development of advanced transfer functions for MSCT datasets was carried out for the visualization of the cardiac vessel system, including direct volume rendering visualizations and multiplanar reformation.
Publications
2019
Visual Analysis of Aneurysm Data using Statistical Graphics Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 997-1007, 2019, ISSN: 2160-9306.
2018
Classification of Blood Flow Patterns in Cerebral Aneurysms Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 2404-2418, 2018, ISSN: 2160-9306.
Exploration of Blood Flow Patterns in Cerebral Aneurysms during the Cardiac Cycle Journal Article
In: Computers & Graphics, vol. 72, pp. 12–25, 2018.
2015
Occlusion-free Blood Flow Animation with Wall Thickness Visualization Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 22 (1), no. 1, pp. 728–737, 2015.
2014
Adaptive Surface Visualization of Vessels with Animated Blood Flow Journal Article
In: Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 33(8), pp. 16–27, 2014.
Coherent View-Dependent Streamlines for Understanding Blood Flow Proceedings Article
In: EuroVis - Short Papers, pp. 5 Seiten, 2014.
Bilateral Depth Filtering for Enhanced Vessel Reformation Proceedings Article
In: IEEE/Eurographics Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), 2014.
ADR - Anatomy-Driven Reformation Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), pp. 2496–2505, 2014.
2013
Adaptive Surface Visualization of Vessels with Embedded Blood Flow Based on the Suggestive Contour Measure Proceedings Article
In: Favre, Michael Bronstein Jean; Hormann, Kai (Ed.): VMV 2013 - Vision, Modeling, Visualization, pp. 113–120, Lugano, 2013.
Interactive Patient-Specific Vascular Modeling with Sweep Surfaces Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) , vol. 19(12), pp. 2828–2837, 2013.
2012
Vessel Visualisation with Volume Rendering Proceedings Article
In: Linsen, Lars (Ed.): Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences II, Mathematics and Visualization (Workshop VMLS 2009), pp. 109–134, Springer Verlag, 2012.
Reliable Adaptive Modelling of Vascular Structures with Non-Circular Cross-Sections Journal Article
In: Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis), vol. 31 (3), pp. 1055–1064, 2012.
2011
Dynamische Gefäße für interaktive Chirurgiesimulationen Proceedings Article
In: CURAC, pp. 149–156, Magdeburg, 2011.
2010
Automatic Transfer Function Specification for Visual Emphasis of Coronary Artery Plaque Journal Article
In: Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 29 (1), no. 1, pp. 191–201, 2010.
2008
Implicit Vessel Surface Reconstruction for Visualization and Simulation Proceedings Article
In: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS), pp. 275–286, 2008.
2007
Visualisierung von Gefäßsystemen mit MPU Implicits Proceedings Article
In: Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin (BVM), pp. 207–211, Springer, 2007.
Model-free Surface Visualization of Vascular Trees Proceedings Article
In: IEEE/Eurographics Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), pp. 283–290, 2007.
2005
Visualization of Vascular Structures: Method, Validation and Evaluation Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 25(4), no. 4, pp. 540–549, 2005.
2004
Visualisierung von Gefäßsystemen mit Convolution Surfaces Proceedings Article
In: Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, pp. 189–193, Springer, 2004.
Visualization of Anatomic Tree Structures with Convolution Surfaces Proceedings Article
In: IEEE/Eurographics Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), pp. 311–320, Springer, 2004.
2001
Visualization and Interaction Techniques for the Exploration of Vascular Structures Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Visualization, pp. 395–402, San Diego, 2001.
