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.
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.
Kai Lawonn gives an invited talk at MPI in Saarbrücken about illustrative visualization.
After many years of development the Dornheim Segmenter (http://www.segmenter.de/) is now released as a product by our Spin-Off Company Dornheim Medical Images. It is based on research in our group primarily in computer-assisted ENT surgery. Former members of the group, such as Jana Dornheim, Kerstin Kellermann and Tobias Mönch contributed a lot.
The Phd thesis of Kai Lawonn was selected the best Phd thesis of the Faculty in the academic year (1. 10. 2013 – 30. 9. 2014).
