Browsing VCBM 19: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine by Title

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    • Colonic Content Assessment from MRI Imaging Using a Semi-automatic Approach 

      Ceballos, Victor; Monclús, Eva; Vázquez, Pere-Pau; Bendezú, Álvaro; Mego, Marianela; Merino, Xavier; Azpiroz, Fernando; Navazo, Isabel (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      The analysis of the morphology and content of the gut is necessary in order to achieve a better understanding of its metabolic and functional activity. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an important imaging ...

    • Distance Field Visualization and 2D Abstraction of Vessel Tree Structures with on-the-fly Parameterization 

      Lichtenberg, Nils; Krayer, Bastian; Hansen, Christian; Müller, Stefan; Lawonn, Kai (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      In this paper, we make contributions to the visualization of vascular structures. Based on skeletal input data, we provide a combined 2D and implicit 3D visualization of vasculature, that is parameterized on-the-fly for ...

    • DockVis: Visual Analysis of Molecular Docking Data 

      Furmanová, Katarína; Kozlíková, Barbora; Vonásek, Vojtěch; Byška, Jan (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Molecular docking is one of the key mechanisms for predicting possible interactions between ligands and proteins. This highly complex task can be simulated by several software tools, providing the biochemists with possible ...

    • Evolutionary Pathlines for Blood Flow Exploration in Cerebral Aneurysms 

      Behrendt, Benjamin; Engelke, Wito; Berg, Philipp; Beuing, Oliver; Preim, Bernhard; Hotz, Ingrid; Saalfeld, Sylvia (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Blood flow simulations play an important role for the understanding of vascular diseases, such as aneurysms. However, analysis of the resulting flow patterns, especially comparisons across patient groups, are challenging. ...

    • Feasibility Study For Automatic Bird Tracking and Visualization from Time-Dependent Marine Radar Imagery 

      Ganglberger, Florian; Bühler, Katja (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      In recent years, radar technology has increasingly been used for the monitoring of bird migration. Marine radars are often utilized for this purpose because of their wide accessibility, range, and resolution. They allow ...

    • HIFUpm: a Visual Environment to Plan and Monitor High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatments 

      Modena, Daniela; Bassano, Davide; Elevelt, Aaldert; Baragona, Marco; Hilbers, Peter A. J.; Westenberg, Michel A. (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is a non invasive therapeutic method, which has been a subject of interest for the treatment of various kinds of tumors. Despite the numerous advantages, HIFU techniques do not reach ...

    • Hybrid Visualization of Protein-Lipid and Protein-Protein Interaction 

      Alharbi, Naif; Krone, Michael; Chavent, Matthieu; Laramee, Robert S. (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      In the Molecular Dynamics (MD) visualization literature, different approaches are utilized to study protein-lipid interactions (PLI) and protein-protein interaction (PPI) in decoupled contexts. However, the two types of ...

    • InkVis: A High-Particle-Count Approach for Visualization of Phase-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data 

      de Hoon, Niels; Lawonn, Kai; Jalba, Andrei; Eisemann, Elmar; Vilanova, Anna (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Phase-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PC-MRI) measures volumetric and time-varying blood flow data, unsurpassed in quality and completeness. Such blood-flow data have been shown to have the potential to improve both ...

    • Interactive CPU-based Ray Tracing of Solvent Excluded Surfaces 

      Rau, Tobias; Zahn, Sebastian; Krone, Michael; Reina, Guido; Ertl, Thomas (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Depictions of molecular surfaces such as the Solvent Excluded Surface (SES) can provide crucial insight into functional molecular properties, such as the molecule's potential to react. The interactive visualization of ...

    • Interactive Exploded Views for Molecular Structures 

      Sbardellati, Maximilian; Miao, Haichao; WU, Hsiang-Yun; Groeller, Eduard; Barisic, Ivan; Viola, Ivan (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      We propose an approach to interactively create exploded views of molecular structures with the goal to help domain experts in their design process and provide them with a meaningful visual representation of component ...

    • Interactive Formation of Statistical Hypotheses in Diffusion Tensor Imaging 

      Abbasloo, Amin; Wiens, Vitalis; Schmidt-Wilcke, Tobias; Sundgren, Pia; Klein, Reinhard; Schultz, Thomas (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      When Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is used in clinical studies, statistical hypothesis testing is the standard approach to establish significant differences between groups, such as patients and healthy controls. However, ...

    • Layer-Aware iOCT Volume Rendering for Retinal Surgery 

      Weiss, Jakob; Eck, Ulrich; Nasseri, Muhamad Ali; Maier, Mathias; Eslami, Abouzar; Navab, Nassir (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Retinal microsurgery is one of the most challenging types of surgery, yet in practice, intraoperative digital assistance is rare. The introduction of fast, microscope integrated Optical Coherence Tomography (iOCT) has ...

    • Medical Animations: A Survey and a Research Agenda 

      Preim, Bernhard; Meuschke, Monique (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Animation is a potentially powerful instrument to convey complex information with movements, smooth transitions between different states that employ the strong human capabilities to perceive and interpret motion. Animation ...

    • MedUse: A Visual Analysis Tool for Medication Use Data in the ABCD Study 

      Bartsch, Hauke; Garrison, Laura; Bruckner, Stefan; Wang, Ariel; Tapert, Susan F.; Grüner, Renate (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      The RxNorm vocabulary is a yearly-published biomedical resource providing normalized names for medications. It is used to capture medication use in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, an active and ...

    • Molecular Sombreros: Abstract Visualization of Binding Sites within Proteins 

      Schatz, Karsten; Krone, Michael; Bauer, Tabea L.; Ferrario, Valerio; Pleiss, Jürgen; Ertl, Thomas (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      We present a novel abstract visualization for the binding sites of proteins. Binding sites play an essential role in enzymatic reactions and are, thus, often investigated in structural biology. They are typically located ...

    • Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Image Synthesis using Generative Adversarial Networks 

      Haarburger, Christoph; Horst, Nicolas; Truhn, Daniel; Broeckmann, Mirjam; Schrading, Simone; Kuhl, Christiane; Merhof, Dorit (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Generative adversarial networks have been shown to alleviate the problem of limited training data for supervised learning problems in medical image computing. However, most generative models for medical images focus on ...

    • Pelvis Runner: Visualizing Pelvic Organ Variability in a Cohort of Radiotherapy Patients 

      Grossmann, Nicolas; Casares-Magaz, Oscar; Muren, Ludvig Paul; Moiseenko, Vitali; Einck, John P.; Gröller, Eduard; Raidou, Renata Georgia (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      In radiation therapy, anatomical changes in the patient might lead to deviations between the planned and delivered dose- including inadequate tumor coverage, and overradiation of healthy tissues. Exploring and analyzing ...

    • preha: Establishing Precision Rehabilitation with Visual Analytics 

      Bernold, Georg; Matkovic, Kresimir; Gröller, Eduard; Raidou, Renata Georgia (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      This design study paper describes preha, a novel visual analytics application in the field of in-patient rehabilitation. We conducted extensive interviews with the intended users, i.e., engineers and clinical rehabilitation ...

    • Robustness Evaluation of CFD Simulations to Mesh Deformation 

      Scheid-Rehder, Alexander; Lawonn, Kai; Meuschke, Monique (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      CFD simulations are an increasingly important method for the non-invasive analysis of risk factors for aneurysm rupture. Their robustness, however, has to be examined more thoroughly before clinical use is possible. We ...

    • Semantic Segmentation of Brain Tumors in MRI Data Without any Labels 

      Weninger, Leon; Krauhausen, Imke; Merhof, Dorit (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Brain MR images are one of the most important instruments for diagnosing neurological disorders such as tumors, infections or trauma. In particular, grade I-IV brain tumors are a well-studied subject for supervised deep ...