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We are happy that Sarah Mittenentzwei joined our team. She will be primarily working with Monique Meuschke and advance our research in visual analytics applied to medical data and narrative visualization.

We are happy that three submissions of our group were accepted at EuroVis this year:

Gabriel Mistelbauer et al.: Implicit Modeling of Patient-Specific Aortic Dissections with Elliptic Fourier Descriptors

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Presentation session on YouTube

Benedikt Mayer et al.: VEHICLE: Validation and Exploration of the Hierarchical Integration of Conflict Event Data

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Presentation session on YouTube

Pepe Eulzer, Monique Meuschke et al: Visualizing Carotid Blood Flow Simulations for Stroke Prevention

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We contributed to the first Bio+Med+Vis Spring School:

Gabriel Mistelbauer
“Visualization of Vascular Structures”

Bernhard Preim
“A Critical Analysis of the Evaluation Practice in Medical Visualization”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNvSsjfJ1A

A team lead by Dr. Benjamin Behrendt will be awarded a price at the Dirk Bartz competition, which will be presented at this year’s EuroVis conference. Their contribution describes an explorative system for the visualization of intracranial blood flow and is a joint project between the University of Magdeburg and the Linköping University in Sweden.

Our former staff member Kai Lawonn was selected for the the prestigeous Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Price from the German Research Council. Accross all scientific disciplines, only 10 scientist receive this award.

We are happy that our first papers are accepted for the IEEE VR conference:

• VR System for the Restoration of Broken Cultural Artifacts on the Example of a Funerary Monument
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• A VR/AR Environment for Multi-User Liver Anatomy Education
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• Collaborative VR for Liver Surgery Planning using Wearable Data Gloves: An Interactive Demonstration
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Shiva Alemzadeh successfully defended her Phd thesis entitled „Visual Analytics of Epidemiological and Multi-Omics Data“. As a result of the current restrictions, the defense was held via video conference.

Lena Spitz was awarded with the Rudolf-Kruse-Price 2020. This award is given annually by the faculty to a student for the best student scholarly publication. Lena submitted her JCARS Paper: Combining Visual Analytics and Case-Based Reasoning for Rupture Risk Assessment of Intracranial Aneurysms, Lena Spitz, Uli Niemann, Oliver Beuing, Belal Neyazi, Erol Sandalcioglu, Bernhard Preim and Sylvia Saalfeld, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 15(9), p. 1525-1535, 2020. which is based on her bachelor thesis that was supervised by Sylvia Saalfeld and Bernhard Preim. Congratulations!

We are happy that Mareen Allgaier joined our team. She will be primarily working with Sylvia Saalfeld and strengthen our activities in neuroradiology and neurosurgery, contributing also to research goals in the research campus STIMULATE.”

Bernhard Preim gave an invited talk on “Virtual Reality for Medical Treatment and Education” at the MMIV conference in Bergen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K2bZJegDlE