Browsing VCBM: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine by Subject "Applications"

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    • Automatic Real-time Annotation of Important Landmarks in Ultrasound-Guided Femoral Nerve Blocks 

      Lindseth, Frank; Leidig, Linda; Smistad, Erik (The Eurographics Association, 2015)
      The main focus of the preliminary work presented here is the automatic real-time annotation (detection and tracking) of the important structures seen in an ultrasound image taken from a femoral nerve block, i.e. the femoral ...

    • 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 ...

    • Design Considerations for Immersive Analytics of Bird Movements Obtained by Miniaturised GPS Sensors 

      Nim, Hieu T.; Sommer, Björn; Klein, Karsten; Flack, Andrea; Safi, Kamran; Nagy, Máté; Fiedler, Wolfgang; Wikelski, Martin; Schreiber, Falk (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      Recent advances in miniaturising sensor tags allow to obtain high-resolution bird trajectories, presenting an opportunity for immersive close-up observation of individual and group behaviour in mid-air. The combination of ...

    • Evaluation of Transfer Function Methods in Direct Volume Rendering of the Blood Vessel Lumen 

      Läthén, Gunnar; Lindholm, Stefan; Lenz, Reiner; Borga, Magnus (The Eurographics Association, 2014)
      Visualization of contrast enhanced blood vessels in CT angiography data presents a challenge due to varying concentration of the contrast agent. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the correctness (effectiveness) in ...

    • A Framework for Fast Initial Exploration of PC-MRI Cardiac Flow 

      Broos, Arjan J. M.; Hoon, Niels H. L. C. de; Koning, Patrick J. H. de; Geest, Rob J. van der; Vilanova, Anna; Jalba, Andrei C. (The Eurographics Association, 2016)
      Cardiac flow is still not fully understood, and is currently an active research topic. Using phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC-MRI) blood flow can be measured. For the inspection of such flow, researchers often ...

    • HIFUtk: Visual Analytics for High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Simulation 

      Modena, Daniela; Dijk, Edmond van; Bošnacki, Dragan; Eikelder, Huub M. M. ten; Westenberg, Michel A. (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      Magnetic Resonance-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MR-HIFU) is a novel and non-invasive therapeutic method. It can be used to locally increase the temperature in a target position in the human body. HIFU procedures ...

    • The iCoCooN: Integration of Cobweb Charts with Parallel Coordinates for Visual Analysis of DCE-MRI Modeling Variations 

      Raidou, Renata G.; Breeuwer, Marcel; Vilanova, Anna; Heide, U. A. van der; Houdt, P. J. van (The Eurographics Association, 2014)
      Efficacy of radiotherapy treatment depends on the specific characteristics of tumorous tissues. For the determination of these characteristics, clinical practice uses Dynamic Contrast Enhanced (DCE) Magnetic Resonance ...

    • Illustrative Multi-volume Rendering for PET/CT Scans 

      Lawonn, Kai; Smit, Noeska; Preim, Bernhard; Vilanova, Anna (The Eurographics Association, 2015)
      In this paper we present illustrative visualization techniques for PET/CT datasets. PET/CT scanners acquire both PET and CT image data in order to combine functional metabolic information with structural anatomical ...

    • Illustrative PET/CT Visualisation of SIRT-Treated Lung Metastases 

      Merten, Nico; Glaßer, Sylvia; Lassen-Schmidt, Bianca; Großer, Oliver Stephan; Ricke, Jens; Amthauer, Holger; Preim, Bernhard (The Eurographics Association, 2016)
      We present an illustrative rendering pipeline which combines anatomical information from CT scans with functional information from PET scans. To treat lung metastases with Selective Internal Radiation Therapies (SIRTs), ...

    • On the Value of Multi-Volume Visualization for Preoperative Planning of Cerebral AVM Surgery 

      Weiler, Florian; Rieder, Christian; David, Carlos A.; Wald, Christoph; Hahn, Horst K. (The Eurographics Association, 2012)
      Surgical treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) requires thourough preoperative planning for the intervening neurosurgeon. The goal of such planning is to gain a precise understanding of the patho-anatomy ...

    • PATHONE: From one Thousand Patients to one Cell 

      Corvò, Alberto; Westenberg, Michel A.; Driel, Marc A. van; Wijk, Jarke J.van (The Eurographics Association, 2016)
      Digital Pathology is a recent clinical environment in which Electronic Health Records (EHRs), biopsy data and whole-slideimages (WSI) come together to provide pathologists the necessary information for making a diagnosis. ...

    • RegistrationShop: An Interactive 3D Medical Volume Registration System 

      Smit, Noeska N.; Haneveld, Berend Klein; Staring, Marius; Eisemann, Elmar; Botha, Charl P.; Vilanova, Anna (The Eurographics Association, 2014)
      In medical imaging, registration is used to combine images containing information from different modalities or to track treatment effects over time in individual patients. Most registration software packages do not provide ...

    • Robust Cardiac Function Assessment in 4D PC-MRI Data 

      Köhler, Benjamin; Preim, Uta; Gutberlet, Matthias; Fischbach, Katharina; Preim, Bernhard (The Eurographics Association, 2014)
      Four-dimensional phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (4D PC-MRI) is a relatively young image modality that allows the non-invasive acquisition of time-resolved, three-dimensional blood flow information. Stroke volumes ...

    • Simulated Motion Artefact in Computed Tomography 

      Vidal, Franck; Villard, Pierre-Frédéric (The Eurographics Association, 2015)
      We propose a simulation framework to simulate the computed tomography acquisition process. It includes five components: anatomic data, respiration modelling, automatic parametrisation, X-ray simulation, and tomography ...

    • A Survey of Cardiac 4D PC-MRI Data Processing 

      Köhler, Benjamin; Born, Silvia; Pelt, Roy F. P. van; Preim, Uta; Preim, Bernhard (The Eurographics Association, 2015)
      Cardiac 4D PC-MRI acquisitions gained increasing clinical interest in recent years. They allow to non-invasively obtain extensive information about patient-specific hemodynamics and thus have a great potential to improve ...

    • Temporal Interpolation of 4D PC-MRI Blood-flow Measurements Using Bidirectional Physics-based Fluid Simulation 

      Hoon, Niels H. L. C. de; Jalba, Andrei C.; Eisemann, Elmar; Vilanova, Anna (The Eurographics Association, 2016)
      Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) enables volumetric and time-varying measurements of blood-flow data. Such data have shown potential to improve diagnosis and risk assessment of various cardiovascular diseases. Hereby, a ...

    • Towards Clinical Deployment of Automated Anatomical Regions-Of-Interest 

      Lindholm, Stefan; Forsberg, Daniel; Ynnerman, Anders; Knutsson, Hans; Andersson, Mats; Lundström, Claes (The Eurographics Association, 2014)
      The purpose of this work is to investigate, and improve, the feasibility of advanced Region Of Interest (ROI) selection schemes in clinical volume rendering. In particular, this work implements and evaluates an Automated ...

    • Tractography in Context: Multimodal Visualization of Probabilistic Tractograms in Anatomical Context 

      Berres, Anne; Goldau, Mathias; Tittgemeyer, Marc; Scheuermann, Gerik; Hagen, Hans (The Eurographics Association, 2012)
      Multi-modal display of neurological data in anatomical context is a challenging issue in biomedical visualization. We present an application-driven approach, which solves the visibility issues arising from the simultaneous ...

    • A Visual Analytics Approach for Patient Stratification and Biomarker Discovery 

      Alemzadeh, Shiva; Kromp, Florian; Preim, Bernhard; Taschner-Mandl, Sabine; Bühler, Katja (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      We introduce discoVA as a visual analytics tool for the refinement of risk stratification of cancer patients and biomarker discovery. Currently, tools for the joint analysis of multiple biological and clinical information ...

    • Visual Analytics for the Exploration and Assessment of Segmentation Errors 

      Raidou, Renata G.; Marcelis, Freek J. J.; Breeuwer, Marcel; Gröller, Eduard; Vilanova, Anna; Wetering, Huub M. M. van de (The Eurographics Association, 2016)
      Several diagnostic and treatment procedures require the segmentation of anatomical structures from medical images. However, the automatic model-based methods that are often employed, may produce inaccurate segmentations. ...