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VisGroup gave three presentations at this year’s VCBM 2025, which took place on 2nd and 3rd October in Delft, Netherlands.

Jorik Jakober presented his work on: Design, development, and evaluation of an immersive augmented virtuality training system for transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Sophie Mlitzke presented her short paper: Interaction in Narrative Medical Visualization: Insights from a Case Study on Tumor Diseases 
This paper got awarded with the Best Short Paper Honorable Mention at VCBM 2025.

Monique Meuschke presented the short paper (on behalf of the first author Beatrice Budich). : Narrative medical visualization to communicate vision restoration to patients: a case study

Sarah Mittenentzwei successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Disease Stories: Visual and Narrative Strategies for Scientific Disease Communication”. The thesis was reviewed by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Preim (OvGU Magdeburg), Prof. Dr. Renata Raidou (TU Wien), and Prof. Dr. Petra Isenberg (Uni Paris-Saclay). Sarah worked primarily in the field of narrative medical visualization. She collaborated with clinicians from a range of disciplines, most notably with Prof. Dr. med. Stefanie Schreiber (DZNE & Department of Neurology, University Hospital Magdeburg). Her work advanced research in data-driven health communication through visualization-based approaches, emphasizing narrative methods that improve the understanding and dissemination of medical data and concepts for lay audiences.

Iam Spitz successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Computational support for morphology-driven analysis of neurovascular pathologies”. The thesis was reviewed by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Preim (OvGU Magdeburg), Prof. Dr. Sylvia Saalfeld (Uni Kiel), and Prof. Dr. Dorit Merhof (Uni Regensburg). Iam worked primarily in the area of medical image processing for neurovascular diseases, especially intracranial aneurysms. They cooperated intensely with Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Daniel Behme at University Hospital Magdeburg and PD Dr. Naomi Larsen at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel. Iam’s work supported aneurysm research and treatment through rupture risk assessment and 3D mesh processing, focussing on morphological analysis.

VisGroup will be giving three presentations at this year’s IEEE VIS 2025, which takes place from 2nd to 7th November in Vienna, Austria.

The VIS 2025 program can be found here.

We had a great time at the GI VR workshop! Tim Härtel shared his paper “Gamified VR-Training for Human Middle and Inner Ear Anatomical Structures”, and Janine Zöllner presented her poster “Learning Physics through Elastic Storytelling in Virtual Reality: A Museum-Like Educational Experience.”

The GI VR/AR group fosters research, knowledge exchange, and collaboration in virtual and augmented reality through its long-standing annual workshop that unites academia and industry.

This year’s workshop was a fun and inspiring exchange with colleagues from the VR community, sparking lots of new ideas and fresh perspectives.

Our contribution „Visual Disease Stories: Empowering Health Literacy and Promotion“ with Sarah Mittenentzwei as first author received the first price in the bi-annual competition for the Dirk Bartz Price of the Eurographics. The price was awarded on the EuroVis, June 2025. Further contributors are Sophie Mlitzke, Beatrice Budich, Anna Kleinau, Monique Meuschke and Bernhard Preim. The price acknowledges several contributions on narrative medical visualization informing in an engaging manner about diseases, their prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment.

We had Torsten Möller, University of Vienna as a guest in our group. He gave an interesting and well-received talk on “Vis4All: Visual encodings for a broad audience”. Laura Garrison, Associate professor at the University of Bergen, joins us for a research stay to discuss further projects on narrative medical visualization.

Aaron Schroeder received the Rudolf-Kruse prize for his paper “Advanced visualization of aortic dissection anatomy and hemodynamics” that appeared in the journal “Computers & Graphics”. The paper is the result of a cooperation with the radiology department at Stanford University.