News

New member in the VIS group

Welcome to Anna Kleinau, our new staff member. Anna brings considerable experience in narrative visualization and visual analytics also based on an employment at our former staff member, Prof. Steffen Oeltze-Jafra from Medical School Hannover. Anna aims to bridge visual analytics and narrative visualization.

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!

New members in the VIS group


We 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.