Sylvia Saalfeld presents her work on rupture risk estimation to Minister Willingmann at the final ceremony of the Hugo-Junkers Preis. This is joint work with Philipp Berg (left) from the Dept. for Flow Mechanics and Oliver Beuing from the Neuroradiology Department.
Kai Lawonn successfully defended his Habilitation thesis „Visual Enhancement of Focus Structures in Selected Applications“. In his thesis, Kai summarizes interdisciplinary research with archeologists, engineers and physicians. His newly developed techniques emphasize low-contrast linear structures, visualize multimodal medical image data and improve the visualization of blood flow, vascular structures and wall-thickness.
Shiva Alemzadeh got an honorable mention award at the VCBM Workshop in Bremen for her work on „Visual Analytics of Missing Data in Epidemiological Cohort Study Data“. This is joint work with KMD group and the epidemiologists from the university of Greifswald. The award is combined with an invitation to submit an extended version to the „Computer Graphics Forum“.
Patrick Saalfeld supervised two Master students exploring room-scale virtual reality for anatomy education. Check their final videos: Video 1 (Anna Schmeier), Video 2 (Daniel Pohlandt)
Several members of the Vis. Group use the summer time for internships at renowned international institutions.
Monique Meuschke and Kai Lawonn stay at ETH Zürich with Dr. Tobias Günther working on blood flow visualization incorporating transparency optimization.
Shiva Alemzadeh joined the VRVis in Vienna for a two-month stay at the MedVis group (Dr. Katja Bühler), where she contributes her visual analytics expertise to analyze gene expression data.
Gabriel Mistelbauer continues his long-term cooperation with the Stanford university, staying with medical doctor Dominik Fleischmann. Their joint interest is smart vessel visualization.
Bernhard Preim was awarded with a price for excellent teaching regarding his lecture „Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Treatment“ by the students of the CS faculty.
Mickaël Francisco Sereno – a computer science student from the university Paris-Sud – is currently doing a 12 weeks internship, which started in May, in the visualization group. He is working in the field of 4D PC-MRI cardiac blood flow data and implements/evaluates a special set of flow field smoothing methods named divergence-free filtering. He is supervised by Benjamin Köhler.
A team lead by Patrick Saalfeld was awarded with the 2nd price. The ceremony took place at Eurographics in Lyon. The succesful contribution demonstrates how vascular structures, vascular pathologies and blood flow may be interactively sketched to support medical and patient education. Implicit visualizations, interaction techniques, 3D input and output devices are the ingredients for this work; see Patricks’ videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcLyjay_Bbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=807KtByrtB4
Monique’s work on “Automatic Viewpoint Selection for Exploration of Time-dependent Cerebral Aneurysm Data” was awarded with a price at this years workshop on Image Processing in Medicine in Heidelberg. In her work, she combines techniques to select good viewpoints on anatomical structures with an analysis of bloodflow simulation parameters to show the anatomy along with interesting values, e.g. particularly high values of wall shear stress.
We offer a new lecture on “visual analytics”. For the first year in German, later in English. Here is more information on the details: https://www.vismd.de/teaching/visual-analytics/
