Excellent Teaching Price
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.
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Internship at the VIS Group
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.
2nd Price at the Dirk Bartz price competition (Eurographics Medical Price)
A team lead by Patrick Saalfeld was awarded with the 2nd price. The ceremony took place at Eurographics in Lyon. The succesful contribution demonstrates how vascular structures, vascular pathologies and blood flow may be interactively sketched to support medical and patient education. Implicit visualizations, interaction techniques, 3D input and output devices are the ingredients for this work; see Patricks’ videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcLyjay_Bbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=807KtByrtB4
Foto: © Eric Guérin
Price for the 3rd best scientific paper for Monique Meuschke
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.
Visual Analytics Lecture
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/
Hugo Junkers Preis
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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Excellent Phd thesis defended
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.
VCBM Honorable Mention Award
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.
New Member of the Vis Group
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.
100th defense of a Master thesis in the Visualization group
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.