Kuß, AnjaProhaska, SteffenMeyer, BjörnRybak, JürgenHege, Hans-ChristianCharl Botha and Gordon Kindlmann and Wiro Niessen and Bernhard Preim2014-01-292014-01-292008978-3-905674-13-22070-5786https://doi.org/10.2312/VCBM/VCBM08/177-184This work presents a method for generating intuitive visualizations for high-level user queries to an hierarchical surface-based neuroanatomical atlas. We combine a spreading activation approach for computing focus and context in an ontology with a specific level-of-detail strategy for hierarchical structures. We demonstrate our method on an atlas of the bee brain.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Methodology and Techniques Interaction Techniques; J.3 [Life and Medical Sciences]: Biology and Genetics