We are very happy that Pere-Pau Vazquez (associate professor from Barcelona) visits us. Pere-Pau is an expert in viewpoint selection, volume rendering and in particular perceptual enhancements of existing techniques. We are looking forward to his talk on “Instant Visualization of Molecular Simulation”.
Noeska Smit from Delft University of Technology is with us for a 10 day stay. Noeska is a specialist in medical visualization in general and in anatomy education in particular. She gave a talk on “The Virtual Surgical Pelvis”.
Welcome to Shiva Shiva Alemzadeh, our new Phd student from Iran. Shiva will work on epidemiological data and strengthen our visual analytics branch.
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.
