Browsing VCBM 18: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine by Title

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    • ICG based Augmented-Reality-System for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy 

      Noll, Matthias; Noa-Rudolph, Werner; Wesarg, Stefan; Kraly, Michael; Stoffels, Ingo; Klode, Joachim; Spass, Cédric; Spass, Gerrit (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      In this paper we introduce a novel augmented-reality (AR) system for the sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy. The AR system consists of a cubic recording device with integrated stereo near-infrared (NIR) and stereo color ...

    • Improving Perception of Molecular Surface Visualizations by Incorporating Translucency Effects 

      Hermosilla, Pedro; Maisch, Sebastian; Vázquez, Pere-Pau; Ropinski, Timo (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Molecular surfaces are a commonly used representation in the analysis of molecular structures as they provide a compact description of the space occupied by a molecule and its accessibility. However, due to the high ...

    • Introducing CNN-Based Mouse Grim Scale Analysis for Fully Automated Image-Based Assessment of Distress in Laboratory Mice 

      Kopaczka, Marcin; Ernst, Lisa; Schock, Justus; Schneuing, Arne; Guth, Alexander; Tolba, Rene; Merhof, Dorit (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      International standards require close monitoring of distress of animals undergoing laboratory experiments in order to minimize the stress level and allow choosing minimally stressful procedures for the experiments. Currently, ...

    • Iterative Exploration of Big Brain Network Data 

      Ganglberger, Florian; Swoboda, Nicolas; Frauenstein, Lisa; Kaczanowska, Joanna; Haubensak, Wulf; Bühler, Katja (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      A current quest in neurscience is the understanding of how genes, structure and behavior relate to one another. In recent years, big brain-initiatives and consortia have created vast resources of publicly available brain ...

    • A Multilinear Model for Bidirectional Craniofacial Reconstruction 

      Achenbach, Jascha; Brylka, Robert; Gietzen, Thomas; Hebel, Katja zum; Schömer, Elmar; Schulze, Ralf; Botsch, Mario; Schwanecke, Ulrich (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      We present a bidirectional facial reconstruction method for estimating the skull given a scan of the skin surface and vice versa estimating the skin surface given the skull. Our approach is based on a multilinear model ...

    • A New Vessel Enhancement Transform on Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation 

      Soares, Ivo; Castelo-Branco, Miguel; Pinheiro, António M. G. (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      The automatic detection of retinal blood vessels is a very important task in computer aided-diagnosis of retinal diseases. In this work a new method is proposed for the automated detection of the retinal vessels. Three new ...

    • Parameterization and Feature Extraction for the Visualization of Tree-like Structures 

      Lichtenberg, Nils; Lawonn, Kai (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      The study and visualization of vascular structures, using 3D models obtained from medical data, is an active field of research. Illustrative visualizations have been applied to this domain in multiple ways. Researchers ...

    • Progressive and Efficient Multi-Resolution Representations for Brain Tractograms 

      Mercier, Corentin; Gori, Pietro; Rohmer, Damien; Cani, Marie-Paule; Boubekeur, Tamy; Thiery, Jean-Marc; Bloch, Isabelle (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Current tractography methods generate tractograms composed of millions of 3D polylines, called fibers, making visualization and interpretation extremely challenging, thus complexifying the use of this technique in a clinical ...

    • A Prototype Holographic Augmented Reality Interface for Image-Guided Prostate Cancer Interventions 

      Morales Mojica, Cristina M.; Velazco Garcia, Jose D.; Navkar, Nikhil V.; Balakrishnan, Shidin; Abinahed, Julien; El Ansari, Walid; Al-Rumaihi, Khalid; Darweesh, Adham; Al-Ansari, Abdulla; Gharib, Mohamed; Karkoub, Mansour; Leiss, Ernst L.; Seimenis, Ioannis; Tsekos, Nikolaos V. (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Motivated by the potential of holographic augmented reality (AR) to offer an immersive 3D appreciation of morphology and anatomy, the purpose of this work is to develop and assess an interface for image-based planning of ...

    • Semantic Screen-Space Occlusion for Multiscale Molecular Visualization 

      Koch, Thomas Bernhard; Kouril, David; Klein, Tobias; Mindek, Peter; Viola, Ivan (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Visual clutter is a major problem in large biological data visualization. It is often addressed through the means of level of detail schemes coupled with an appropriate coloring of the visualized structures. Ambient occlusion ...

    • Ultrasound Decompression for Large Field-of-View Reconstructions 

      Schulte zu Berge, Christian; Salehi, Mehrdad; Bender, Frederik; Wein, Wolfgang (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Tracked medical ultrasound allows for cost-effective and radiation-free imaging of anatomy featuring a very high spatial resolution. To overcome the limitations of the small field-of-view, sonographers can acquire multiple ...

    • Uncertainty-Guided Semi-Automated Editing of CNN-based Retinal Layer Segmentations in Optical Coherence Tomography 

      Zadeh, Shekoufeh Gorgi; Wintergerst, Maximilian W. M.; Schultz, Thomas (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have enabled dramatic improvements in the accuracy of automated medical image segmentation. Despite this, in many cases, results are still not reliable enough to be trusted ''blindly''. ...

    • Visual Analysis of Evolution of EEG Coherence Networks employing Temporal Multidimensional Scaling 

      Ji, Chengtao; Maurits, Natasha M.; Roerdink, Jos B. T. M. (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      The community structure of networks plays an important role in their analysis. It represents a high-level organization of objects within a network. However, in many application domains, the relationship between objects in ...

    • Visual Analysis of Regional Anomalies in Myocardial Motion 

      Sheharyar, Ali; Ruh, Alexander; Aristova, Maria; Scott, Michael; Jarvis, Kelly; Elbaz, Mohammed; Dolan, Ryan; Schnell, Susanne; Lin, Kal; Carr, James; Markl, Michael; Bouhali, Othmane; Linsen, Lars (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Regional anomalies in the myocardial motion of the left ventricle (LV) are important biomarkers for several cardiac diseases. Myocardial motion can be captured using a velocity-encoded magnetic resonance imaging method ...

    • Visual Analytics in Histopathology Diagnostics: a Protocol-Based Approach 

      Corvò, Alberto; Westenberg, Michel A.; Driel, Marc A. van; Wijk, Jarke J.van (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Computer-Aided-Diagnosis (CAD) systems supporting the diagnostic process are widespread in radiology. Digital Pathology is still behind in the introduction of such solutions. Several studies investigated pathologists' ...

    • Visual Assessment of Vascular Torsion using Ellipse Fitting 

      Mistelbauer, Gabriel; Zettwitz, Martin; Schernthaner, Rüdiger; Fleischmann, Dominik; Teutsch, Christian; Preim, Bernhard (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Blood vessels are well explored and researched in medicine and visualization. However, the investigation of vascular torsion has yet been unexplored. In order to understand the development and current state of a single ...

    • Visual Exploratory Analysis for Multiple T-Maze Studies 

      Bechtold, Fabrizia; Splechtna, Rainer; Matkovic, Kresimir (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Evaluation of spatial learning and memory in rodents is commonly carried out using different maze settings such as the Multiple T-Maze. State-of-the-art analysis is primarily based on statistics of quantitative measures ...

    • VisualFlatter - Visual Analysis of Distortions in the Projection of Biomedical Structures 

      Grossmann, Nicolas; Köppel, Thomas; Gröller, Eduard; Raidou, Renata Georgia (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Projections of complex anatomical or biological structures from 3D to 2D are often used by visualization and domain experts to facilitate inspection and understanding. Representing complex structures, such as organs or ...