Medical Visualization

In recognition of his achievements in teaching at the Faculty of Computer Science, Prof. Preim was awarded for the course Medical Visualization in SoSe 2011: Certificate

This lecture covers the visualization of medical volume data, such as Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Nuclear Medicine. Medical visualization techniques include surface and volume rendering as well as interaction techniques to adjust these visualizations, e.g. with appropriate transfer functions. Advanced topics include vessel visualization, virtual endoscopy (animated visualizations with viewpoints inside the human body, mimicking, e.g. colonoscopy) and multimodal medical visualization. Other topics are related to higher dimensional data, in particular to simulated and measured blood flow. All techniques are motivated by urgent tasks in medical diagnosis and treatment including vascular diseases and cancer. Thus, a strong interest in medical applications is essential but medical knowledge is not a prerequisite. As a lecture primarily designed for the Master Course “Computational Visualistics” with the application subject “Medicine”, computer graphics and visualization are prerequisites and also medical imaging technology is not treated but at least a basic knowledge is expected.

The content of the lecture is strongly related to the book “Visual Computing in Medicine” http://medvisbook.com/.

Organizational details

Audience: Master Course (for more information see LSF)
Completion: Exam (presumably oral)
ECTS-Credits (Master): 6
LP (Diplom): 6

Exam

We offer the following dates for the oral exams for the summer semester 2024:
– 11th July
– 31st July
– 23rd – 25th September
For the concrete time slots, please have a look at the lists that are available in our secretary’s office, Building 29 – Room 218.

Lecture

Exercise