Welcome to Kai Ostendorf, our new staff member. Kai brings considerable experience in vessel visualization and image analysis, primarily related to Aortic dissections where he collaborates with our former staff member, Dr. Mistelbauer from the radiology department of Stanford University.
Our group was present with three papers and talks at this year’s VCBM-workshop (vcbm.org).
The first paper is a cooperation with the University Medical Center and deals with visualization support for tumor board preparation and discussion
based on an analysis of the current patients’ history and the whole database of previously treated patients.
The second and third paper are on narrative medical visualization. First we discussed different variants to convey the growth of vascular pathologies and tumors. The final paper presents our experiences with generating characters, in particular representing patients and their development over time.
Visual analytics to support treatment decisions in late-stage melanoma patients (Link Tumor Boards in Dermatology (eg.org))
Calida Pereira, Uli Niemann, Braun Andreas, Miriam Mengoni, Thomas Tüting, Bernhard Preim, Monique Meuschke.
Communicating pathologies and growth to a general audience (Link Communicating Pathologies and Growth (eg.org))
Sarah Mittenentzwei, Sophie Mlitzke, Kai Lawonn, Bernhard Preim, Monique Meuschke.
Reflections on AI-assisted character design for data-driven medical stories (Link Character Design for Medical Stories (eg.org))
Beatrice Budich, Laura Garrison, Bernhard Preim, Monique Meuschke.
Patrick pioneered the use of advanced 3D interaction and Virtual Reality in our group, dealing with a wide range of applications in medicine (heart surgery, hand and skull anatomy, liver surgery) and beyond. In particular, his work as key developer in an EU project on radiochemistry is influential. Moreover, he developed a 3D puzzle for reconstructing an essential part of Magdeburg’s cathedral – a system that is still presented in the cathedral. After nine years as PhD and Post-Doc., Patrick now extends his freelancing work that he started years ago. We wish him the best of luck for his future!
We are happy to announce that Janine Zöllner and Jorik Jakober have joined the VIS group to pursue their PHD’s in the area of application-based Virtual Reality research. Janine will be working on radiochemistry applications and Jorik in the medical domain.
We say goodbye to our colleagues Sylvia Saalfeld and Sebastian Wagner. Sylvia went to the Technical University of Ilmenau to lead the group for Computational Medicine. Sebastian went to work in the industry. We thank Sylvia and Sebastian for the scientific work they contributed to our group and for the great time we had together with them as our colleagues. We wish them all the best for their future!
The book “Visualization, Visual Analytics and Virtual Reality in Medicine” (authored by Bernhard Preim, Renata Raidou, Noeska Smit and Kai Lawon) is ready and scheduled to appear on June 1. Here is a link to the book:
Visualization, Visual Analytics and Virtual Reality in Medicine – 1st Edition (elsevier.com)
We are happy to announce that the following submission of Sarah Mittenentzwei was accepted at EuroVis this year.
S. Mittenentzwei, V. Weiß, S. Schreiber, L. A. Garrison, S. Bruckner, M. Pfister, B. Preim, and M. Meuschke: Do Disease Stories Need a Hero? Effects of Human Protagonists on a Narrative Visualization about Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
Monique Meuschke finished her Post-Doctoral Lecture Qualification (Habilitation) with a successful defense of her thesis entitled “Interactive Medical Visualization for Experts and Broad Audiences”. Moniques’ research covers a broad spectrum of visualization techniques for experts, i.e. primarily physicians, and broad audiences. Her focus is on medical applications but she also tackled problems beyond this area such as conflict research.
