News

Welcome to Kai Nie, our new staff member from China. Kai will work on the visual analysis of perfusion data taking into account contrast agent dynamics, morphology and texture of suspicious tumors.

Paul Klemm has submitted his Phd thesis “Interactive Visual Analysis of Population Study Data”, an essential result from our DFG project together with Klaus Toennies and Henry Völzke from the University of Greifswald. This work was part of the DFG priority programme “Scaleable Visual Analytics”.

Our new staff member Monique Meuschke got a prestigeous award last Saturday. Having the best possible grades in all subjects, Monique was selected as the best graduate of all our six master programmes.

We welcome Nico Merten as new staff member working in the Research Campus SIMULATE. Before joining the Vis group Nico studied Computational Visualistics at Koblenz-Landau University.

We are glad that Dr. Gabriel Mistelbauer, TU Wien accepted the invitation to give a talk in the Medical Technology colloquium. He will talk about “Advanced Vessel Visualization”

Alexandra Baer defended here Phd thesis on “Perception-Guided Evaluation of 3D Medical Visualizations” successfully. Alexandra conducted a series of controlled perceptual studies related to emphasis techniques in medical visualization, depth perception with stereo and autostereoscopic devices and related to visualizations of vascular structures and internal flow. The thesis was reviewed by Timo Ropinski (Ulm University) and Douglas Cunningham (BTU Cottbus) and was graded with a Magna Cum Laude from all three reviewers.

We are delighted that our submission “A Survey of Cardiac 4D PC-MRI Data Processing” received the Honorable Mention award at the VCBM 2015 workshop. The survey paper was authored by Benjamin Köhler and was developed in cooperation with Silvia Born, University of Zürich, Roy van Pelt, Philips Heathcare, Eindhoven, as well as Uta Preim of the Municipal Hospital Magdeburg. Furthermore, our submission “Histology-Based Evaluation of Optical Coherence Tomographic Characteristics of the Cerebral Artery Wall via Virtual Inflating” won the best paper award! Sylvia Glaßer’s work is the result of a novel cooperation between the visualization group, the Institute of Neuroradiology and the Institute of Pathology from the University hospital of Magdeburg and the Departments of Medical Engineering and Fluid Dynamics and Technical Flows from the University of Magdeburg. Both papers are invited to be extended as journal publication for the Computer Graphics Forum.

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We are happy to announce that we will present four papers at this year’s Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) in Chester, UK.

“Histology-Based Evaluation of Optical Coherence Tomographic Characteristics of the Cerebral Artery Wall via Virtual Inflating” Glaßer, Sylvia; Hoffmann, Thomas; Boese, Axel; Voß, Samuel; Kalinski, Thomas ; Skalej, Martin; Preim, Bernhard.

“Exploration of 3D Medical Image Data for Interventional Radiology using Myoelectric Gesture Control” Hettig, Julian; Mewes, André; Riabikin, Oleksandr; Skalej, Martin; Preim, Bernhard; Hansen, Christian.

“A Survey of Cardiac 4D PC-MRI Data Processing” Köhler, Benjamin; Born, Silvia; van Pelt, Roy; Preim, Uta; Preim, Bernhard.

“Illustrative Multi-volume Rendering for PET/CT Scans” Lawonn, Kai; Smit, Noeska; Preim, Bernhard; Vilanova, Anna.

We are looking forward to it!

Steffen Oeltze-Jafra spends the entire September with the SciVis group headed by Anders Ynnerman at Linköping University. Steffen stays with the group in Norrköping but will also visit the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) and Claes Lundström in Linköping.

We are happy to announce that we could spearhead and contribute to five papers being presented at this years IEEE VIS.

“3D Regression Heat Map Analysis of Population Study Data” Paul Klemm, Kai Lawonn, Sylvia Glaßer, Uli Niemann, Katrin Hegenscheid, Henry Völzke, Bernhard Preim.

“Occlusion-free Blood Flow Animation with Wall Thickness Visualization” Kai Lawonn, Sylvia Glaßer, Anna Vilanova, Bernhard Preim, Tobias Isenberg.

“Cluster Analysis of Vortical Flow in Simulations of Cerebral Aneurysm Hemodynamics” Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, Juan R. Cebral, Gábor Janiga, Bernhard Preim.

“Glyph-based Comparative Visualization for Diffusion Tensor Fields” Changgong Zhang, Thomas Schultz, Kai Lawonn, Elmar Eisemann, Anna Vilanova.

CG&A paper: “Interactive Visual Analysis of Heterogeneous Cohort Study Data” Paolo Angelelli, Steffen Oeltze, Judit Haász, Cagatay Turkay, Erlend Hodneland, Arvid Lundervold, Astri J. Lundervold, Bernhard Preim, Helwig Hauser

We look forward to the presentations!

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