News

Several members of the Vis. Group use the summer time for internships at renowned international institutions.
Monique Meuschke and Kai Lawonn stay at ETH Zürich with Dr. Tobias Günther working on blood flow visualization incorporating transparency optimization.
Shiva Alemzadeh joined the VRVis in Vienna for a two-month stay at the MedVis group (Dr. Katja Bühler), where she contributes her visual analytics expertise to analyze gene expression data.
Gabriel Mistelbauer continues his long-term cooperation with the Stanford university, staying with medical doctor Dominik Fleischmann. Their joint interest is smart vessel visualization.

Bernhard Preim was awarded with a price for excellent teaching regarding his lecture „Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Treatment“ by the students of the CS faculty.

Mickaël Francisco Sereno – a computer science student from the university Paris-Sud – is currently doing a 12 weeks internship, which started in May, in the visualization group. He is working in the field of 4D PC-MRI cardiac blood flow data and implements/evaluates a special set of flow field smoothing methods named divergence-free filtering. He is supervised by Benjamin Köhler.

Monique’s work on “Automatic Viewpoint Selection for Exploration of Time-dependent Cerebral Aneurysm Data” was awarded with a price at this years workshop on Image Processing in Medicine in Heidelberg. In her work, she combines techniques to select good viewpoints on anatomical structures with an analysis of bloodflow simulation parameters to show the anatomy along with interesting values, e.g. particularly high values of wall shear stress.

We offer a new lecture on “visual analytics”. For the first year in German, later in English. Here is more information on the details: https://www.vismd.de/teaching/visual-analytics/

Benjamin Köhler won the third price for the Hugo Junkers Preis in the category “Foundational Research”. He presented his research tool for quantitative and qualitative analysis of 4D PC-MRI flow data.

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Benjamin Köhler completed his Phd-thesis „Guided Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Cardiac 4D PC-MRI data“. After winning the MedVis Award, the EG Medical Price, the BVM award and two Honorable mentions at VCBM, Ben also delivered an optimal performance at his oral defense leading to a „Summa Cum Laude“ result. The group prepared an extraordinary hat with a pumping heart and illuminated streamlines.

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The paper from Sylvia Glaßer and colleagues “How to Evaluate Medical Visualizations on the Example of 3D Aneurysm Surfaces” was distinguished with the Honorable Mention Award at this years VCBM workshop in Bergen. Sylvia will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to the Computer Graphics Forum journal.

We are glad that Dr. Gabriel Mistelbauer, TU Vienna joins our team. Gabriel brings a lot of experience in all parts of medical visualization, in particular in visualization of vasculature for diagnosis.