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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.

Jean Michel Pape successfully defended his thesis on “Ein Klassifikationssystem zur quantitativen Analyse von Krankheitssymptomen im Kontext der Hochdurchsatz-Phänotypisierung von Pflanzen”. The work was carried out at the Leibniz Institute for Plant Genetics in Gatersleben; a nice piece of interdisciplinary work, typical for the Computational Visualistics degree programme that requires substantial understanding of plant biology and imaging in that area. Advanced cameras that also acquire near infrared light were employed to assess pathologies of plants.

We are happy to announce that we will present two papers at this year’s IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) in Baltimore, Maryland.

“Visualization and Extraction of Carvings for Heritage Conservation” Kai Lawonn, Erik Trostmann, Bernhard Preim, Klaus Hildebrandt.

“Combined Visualization of Vessel Deformation and Hemodynamics in Cerebral Aneurysms” Monique Meuschke, Samuel Voss, Oliver Beuing, Bernhard Preim, Kai Lawonn.

Steffen Oeltze-Jafra defended his Postdoctoral lecture qualification on “Visual Analytics of Medical and Biological Data”. Steffen did a whole bunch of work on analyzing blood flow data, biological data and supervised also work on epidemiology data. With Jarke van Wijk and Thomas Ertl we had great reviewers to discuss all contributions carefully.

Paul Klemm successfully defended his Phd thesis on “Interactive Visual Analysis of Population Study Data”. Paul developed a couple of methods to enhance the hypothesis-driven workflow of epidemiologists adding data mining and visual analytics to their statistics-driven pipeline. We had a lively discussion with Silvia Miksch (Vienna Institute of Technology) and Daniel Weiskopf (University of Stuttgart) on many issues, including appropriate evaluation methods.