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Monique Meuschke provided an extraordinary Master thesis analyzing aortic blood flow data. Monique developed techniques to automatically classify vortices with respect to the stage in cardiac cycle (systolic, diastolic), to their extent (major and minor flow), flow direction, helical or vertical flow and the aortic section where the vortex occurs. All criteria are defined manually so far according to many clinical publications. Monique could develop methods that are quite robust and precise according to evaluations with real (pathologic patient data). The excellently written and presented thesis was judged with the highest possible grade by both reviewers. We are happy that Monique now joins the STIMULATE team, in particular the hemodynamics group.

Juliane Dinse, external Phd student of the Vis group and staff member at MPI Leipzig, defended her thesis. She dealt with neuroanatomical modelling looking for both the myeloarchitecture and the cytoarchitecture of human brains. She processed and analyzed histological images of human brains and 7 Tesla MR images using various theories and models to correlate them with each other. For this work, Juliane was awarded with a MICCAI Young Investigators award in 2013. This year she could publish a comprehensive paper in NeuroImage. Due to the excellent feedback from the external reviewers, both specialized in neurological image processing, Dorit Merhof (RWTH Aachen) and Guido Gerig who recently moved to New York the thesis was judged as “Summa Cum Laude”.

Wolfgang Schoor successfully defended his PhD Thesis on Interactive Visualization and Modification of Digitized Plant Biological Objects.

Kai Lawonn lead a team that prepared for the MICCAI Conference “Illustrative Visualization of Vascular Models for Static 2D Representations” that was conditionally accepted. It is the first MICCAI paper since 2006 and the strongest paper together with Christian Hansen who recently joined as Faculty member for “Computer-Assisted Surgery”. This research extends the previous work of both groups on illustrative visualization and perception-based studies.”

We were notified and are delighted that our tutorial submission “Rejuvenated Medical Visualization – Large-scale, whole-body visualization, visualizing physiology, non-standard imaging and simulations, and cohort studies” (lead by Steffen Oeltze-Jafra) for a half-day tutorial at this year’s IEEE Visualization conference was accepted. Speakers are Anders Ynnerman, Stefan Bruckner and Helwig Hauser.

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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.