Distance Visualizations for Vascular Structures in Desktop and VR: Overview and Implementation
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Date
2022
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
The role of expressive surface visualizations in rendering vascular structures has seen an increased impact over the last years. Surface visualizations provide an overview of complex anatomical structures and support treatment planning as well as medical education. To support decision-making, physicians need visualizations that depict anatomical structures and their spatial relations to each other, i.e., well perceivable visual encodings of egocentric and endocentric distances. We give an overview of common techniques for encoding distance information of 3D vessel surfaces. We also provide an implementation of all the visualizations presented as a starting point for other researchers. Therefore, we provide a Unity environment for each visualization, as well as implementation instructions. Thirteen different visualizations are included in this work, which can be divided into fundamental, surface-based, auxiliary and illustrative visualizations.
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CCS Concepts: Human-centered computing → Visualization; Visualization toolkits; Computer systems organization → Real-time systems"
@inproceedings{10.2312:vcbm.20221182,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {Renata G. Raidou and Björn Sommer and Torsten W. Kuhlen and Michael Krone and Thomas Schultz and Hsiang-Yun Wu},
title = {{Distance Visualizations for Vascular Structures in Desktop and VR: Overview and Implementation}},
author = {Hombeck, Jan and Meuschke, Monique and Lieb, Simon and Lichtenberg, Nils and Datta, Rabi and Krone, Michael and Hansen, Christian and Preim, Bernhard and Lawonn, Kai},
year = {2022},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-177-9},
DOI = {10.2312/vcbm.20221182}
}