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The book ” Interaktive Systeme Band 2: User Interface Engineering, 3D-Interaktion, Natural User Interfaces” authored by Bernhard Preim and Raimund Dachselt” appeared at Springer.

Juliane Dinse, external Phd student of the Vis group has submitted her Phd thesis entitled “A Model-based Cortical Parcellation Scheme for High-Resolution 7 Tesla MRI Data”. Juliane is a staff member of Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. She works in the Neurobiology department. In her work, Juliane dealt with histological slices and ultra high resolution MRI data to come up with a method to model laminar myelin patterns in the human cortex based on the known cytoarchictecture. She was locally supervised by Robert Turner and Pierre-Louis Bezan.

Benjamin Köhler received the price for the best talk (among 46) at this year’s German workshop on medical image processing for presenting the paper “Two-Dimensional Plot Visualization of Aortic Vortex Flow in Cardiac 4D PC-MRI Data”. This is joint work with Monique Meuschke from our group and physicians from three hospitals (M. Gutberlet, M. Grothof, Heart Center Leipzig), (K. Fischbach, University Hospital Magdeburg) and U. Preim (Hospital Magdeburg, Olvenstedt). The award is handed over to Ben by Prof. Thomas Tolxdorff, Free University Berlin”.

Kai Lawonn started an extended internship at Delft University of Technology and is now a temporary member of Anna Vilanova’s group. Kai continues the cooperation that we started during Anna’s time in Eindhoven when Rocco Gasteiger joint her team and Roy van Pelt, in exchange came to Magdeburg.

We were notified that one of our submissions for the Dirk Bartz Price was selected to be awarded at this year’s Eurographics conference in May. The succesful team is lead by Benjamin Köhler and includes physicians from the Heart Center Leipzig (Matthias Gutberlet, Matthias Grothoff), from the University Hospital Magdeburg (Katharina Fischbach) and the Klinikum Olvenstedt (Uta Preim). Together they delevoped and tested new methods to analyze and visualize cardiac blood flow to support the diagnosis of cardiac diseases.

We were notified that our tutorial submission (lead by Anna Vilanova and Bernhard Preim) for a Full Day tutorial at this year’s MICCAI conference was accepted. Speakers include Anders Ynnerman, Eduard Gröller, Stefan Bruckner and Timo Ropinski.

A new 5-year period of funding for interventional radiology and related technical developments starts today in the framework of the research campus SIMULATE. Our group is involved in two subprojects: “image analysis and visualization” (for planning interventions) where we take the lead as well as hemodynamics/tools, where stents and related devices are developed for improving treatment of vascular diseases.

We initiated a tutorial submission together with Anna Vilanova, TU Delft for a full day tutorial including a panel discussion at MICCAI. Tutorial speakers include Stefan Bruckner (Bergen), Katja Bühler (Vienna), Eduard Gröller (Vienna), Markus Hadwiger (KAUST), Bernhard Kainz (London) Thomas Schultz (Bonn), Rüdiger Westermann (Munich), Anders Ynnerman (Linköping).

We submitted two surveys to the electronic archive arXiv. The first survey Feature Lines for Illustrating Medical Surface Models: Mathematical Background and Survey written by Kai Lawonn and Bernhard Preim is about feature lines. Here, several feature line methods are presented and analyzed. Furthermore, this survey provides also the discrete differential geometry background, which is necessary for understanding the feature line concepts.

The second survey by Bernhard Preim et al. was a joint work with the visualization group of Bergen headed by Helwig Hauser, the image processing group headed by Klaus Tönnies, and Henry Völzke the head of the study of health in Pomerania. The survey Visual Analytics of Image-Centric Cohort Studies in Epidemiology discusses cohort studies and how they can be evaluated with visual analytics.

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We are proud that our article “Blood Flow Clustering and Applications in Virtual Stenting of Intracranial Aneurysms”, which appeared this year in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and was authored by Steffen Oeltze, Dirk J. Lehmann, Alexander Kuhn, Gabor Janiga, Holger Theisel, and Bernhard Preim, has been recognized by NeuroNews. The accompanying video of our article was embedded in their web page.