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    • 2.5D Geometric Mapping of Aortic Blood Flow Data for Cohort Visualization 

      Behrendt, Benjamin; Pleuss-Engelhardt, David; Gutberlet, Matthias; Preim, Bernhard (The Eurographics Association, 2021)
      Four-dimensional phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (4D PC-MRI) allows for a non-invasive acquisition of timeresolved blood flow measurements, providing a valuable aid to clinicians and researchers seeking a better ...
    • Accelerated Diffusion Operators for Enhancing DW-MRI 

      Rodrigues, Paulo; Duits, Remco; Romeny, Bart M. ter Haar; Vilanova, Anna (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      the intra-voxel diffusion pattern compared to its simpler predecessor diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). However, HARDI in general produces very noisy diffusion patterns due to the low SNR from the scanners at high b-values. ...
    • Adapted Surface Visualization of Cerebral Aneurysms with Embedded Blood Flow Information 

      Gasteiger, Rocco; Neugebauer, Mathias; Kubisch, Christoph; Preim, Bernhard (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Cerebral aneurysms are a vascular dilatation induced by a pathological change of the vessel wall and often require treatment to avoid rupture. Therefore, it is of main interest, to estimate the risk of rupture, to gain a ...
    • Analyzing Protein Similarity by Clustering Molecular Surface Maps 

      Schatz, Karsten; Frieß, Florian; Schäfer, Marco; Ertl, Thomas; Krone, Michael (The Eurographics Association, 2020)
      Many biochemical and biomedical applications like protein engineering or drug design are concerned with finding functionally similar proteins, however, this remains to be a challenging task. We present a new imaged-based ...
    • Anatomical Volume Visualization with Weighted Distance Fields 

      Kerwin, Thomas; Hittle, Brad; Shen, Han-Wei; Stredney, Don; Wiet, Gregory (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      We describe the use of the weighted distance transform (WDT) to enhance applications designed for volume visualization of segmented anatomical datasets. The WDT is presented as a general technique to generate a derived ...
    • Aneulysis - A System for Aneurysm Data Analysis 

      Meuschke, Monique; Wickenhöfer, Ralph; Preim, Bernhard; Lawonn, Kai (The Eurographics Association, 2020)
      We present ANEULYSIS, a system to improve risk assessment and treatment planning of cerebral aneurysms. Aneurysm treatment must be carefully examined as there is a risk of fatal outcome during surgery. Aneurysm growth, ...
    • Annotated Dendrograms for Neurons From the Larval Fruit Fly Brain 

      Strauch, Martin; Hartenstein, Volker; Andrade, Ingrid V.; Cardona, Albert; Merhof, Dorit (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Recent advances in neuroscience have made it possible to reconstruct all neurons of an entire neural circuit in the larval fruit fly brain from serial electron microscopy image stacks. The reconstructed neurons are ...
    • Aortic Dissection Maps: Comprehensive Visualization of Aortic Dissections for Risk Assessment 

      Mistelbauer, Gabriel; Schmidt, Johanna; Sailer, Anna-Margaretha; Bäumler, Kathrin; Walters, Shannon; Fleischmann, Dominik (The Eurographics Association, 2016)
      Aortic dissection is a life threatening condition of the aorta, characterized by separation of its wall layers into a true and false lumen. A subset of patients require immediate surgical or endovascular repair. All survivors ...
    • Application of Image Processing Functions for Brain Tumor Enhancement in Intraoperative Ultrasound Image Data 

      Chalopin, Claire; Mbuyamba, Elisee Ilunga; Aragon, Jesus Guillermo Cabal; Rodriguez, Juan Carlos Camacho; Arlt, Felix; Cervantes, Juan Gabriel Avina; Meixensberger, Juergen; Lindner, Dirk (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      Intraoperative ultrasound (iUS) imaging supports neurosurgeons significantly during brain tumor operations. At the beginning of the intervention the integration of the iUS image data within the navigation system guides the ...
    • AR-Assisted Craniotomy Planning for Tumour Resection 

      Wooning, Joost; Benmahdjoub, Mohamed; Walsum, Theo van; Marroquim, Ricardo (The Eurographics Association, 2021)
      Craniotomy is a procedure where neurosurgeons open the patient's skull to gain direct access to the brain. The craniotomy's position defines the access path from the skull surface to the tumour and, consequently, the healthy ...
    • Atomistic Visualization of Mesoscopic Whole-Cell Simulations 

      Falk, Martin; Krone, Michael; Ertl, Thomas (The Eurographics Association, 2012)
      Molecular visualizations are a principal tool for analyzing the results of biochemical simulations. With modern GPU ray casting approaches it is only possible to render several millions of atoms at interactive frame rates ...
    • Automated Slice-Based Artery Identification in Various Field-of-View CTA Scans 

      Major, David; Novikov, Alexey A.; Wimmer, Maria; Hladuvka, Jiri; Bühler, Katja (The Eurographics Association, 2015)
      Automated identification of main arteries in Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) scans plays a key role in the initialization of vessel tracking algorithms. Automated vessel tracking tools support physicians in vessel ...
    • Automatic Animations to Analyze Blood Flow Data 

      Apilla, Vikram; Behrendt, Benjamin; Lawonn, Kai; Preim, Bernhard; Meuschke, Monique (The Eurographics Association, 2021)
      We present an approach for computing camera animations composed of optimal views to support the visual exploration of blood flow data using cerebral aneurysms as major example. Medical researchers are interested in hemodynamic ...
    • Automatic Cutting and Flattening of Carotid Artery Geometries 

      Eulzer, Pepe; Richter, Kevin; Meuschke, Monique; Hundertmark, Anna; Lawonn, Kai; , (The Eurographics Association, 2021)
      We propose a novel method to cut and flatten vascular geometry that results in an intuitive mapping between the 3D and 2D domains. Our approach is fully automatic, and the sole input is the vessel geometry. We aim to ...
    • Automatic Generation of Web-Based User Studies to Evaluate Depth Perception in Vascular Surface Visualizations 

      Meuschke, Monique; Smit, Noeska N.; Lichtenberg, Nils; Preim, Bernhard; Lawonn, Kai (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      User studies are often required in biomedical visualization application papers in order to provide evidence for the utility of the presented approach. An important aspect is how well depth information can be perceived, as ...
    • Automatic Hepatocyte Quantification from Histological Images: Comparing Pre-smoothing filters 

      Ivanovska, Tetyana; Schenk, Andrea; Dahmen, Uta; Hahn, Horst K.; Linsen, Lars (The Eurographics Association, 2008)
      Quantity of hepatocytes in the liver can reveal a lot of information for medical researchers. In our project, it is needed for evaluation of the liver regeneration rate. In this paper, we present a processing pipeline for ...
    • 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 ...
    • Automatic Segmentation of the Pelvic Bones from CT Data Based on a Statistical Shape Model 

      Seim, Heiko; Kainmueller, Dagmar; Heller, Markus; Lamecker, Hans; Zachow, Stefan; Hege, Hans-Christian (The Eurographics Association, 2008)
      We present an algorithm for automatic segmentation of the human pelvic bones from CT datasets that is based on the application of a statistical shape model. The proposed method is divided into three steps: 1) The averaged ...
    • Automatic Thrombus Detection in Non-enhanced Computed Tomography Images in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke 

      Löber, Patrick; Stimpel, Bernhard; Syben, Christopher; Maier, Andreas; Ditt, Hendrik; Schramm, Peter; Raczkowski, Boy; Kemmling, André (The Eurographics Association, 2017)
      In case of an ischemic stroke, identifying and removing blood clots is crucial for a successful recovery. We present a novel method to automatically detect vascular occlusion in non-enhanced computed tomography (NECT) ...
    • Bio-Sketch: A New Medium for Interactive Storytelling Illustrated by the Phenomenon of Infection 

      Olivier, Pauline; Chabrier, Renaud; Memari, Pooran; Coll, Jean-Luc; Cani, Marie-Paule (The Eurographics Association, 2023)
      In the field of biology, digital illustrations play a crucial role in conveying complex phenomena, allowing for idealized shapes and motion, in contrast to data visualization. In the absence of suitable media, scientists ...