VCBM: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine: Recent submissions

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    • The Virtual Reality Flow Lens for Blood Flow Exploration 

      Behrendt, Benjamin; Piotrowski, Lisa; Saalfeld, Sylvia; Preim, Bernhard; Saalfeld, Patrick (The Eurographics Association, 2020)
      The exploration of time-dependent measured or simulated blood flow is challenging due to the complex three-dimensional structure of vessels and blood flow patterns. Especially on a 2D screen, understanding their full shape ...

    • VRIDAA: Virtual Reality Platform for Training and Planning Implantations of Occluder Devices in Left Atrial Appendages 

      Medina, Elodie; Aguado, Ainhoa M.; Mill, Jordi; Freixa, Xavier; Arzamendi, Dabit; Yagüe, Carlos; Camara, Oscar (The Eurographics Association, 2020)
      Personalized anatomical information of the heart is usually obtained from the visual analysis of patient-specific medical images with standard multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) of 2D orthogonal slices, volume rendering and ...

    • An Endoscope Interface for Immersive Virtual Reality 

      John, Nigel W.; Day, Thomas W.; Wardle, Terrence (The Eurographics Association, 2020)
      This is a work in progress paper that describes a novel endoscope interface designed for use in an immersive virtual reality surgical simulator. We use an affordable off the shelf head mounted display to recreate the ...

    • Feature Exploration using Local Frequency Distributions in Computed Tomography Data 

      Falk, Martin; Ljung, Patric; Lundström, Claes; Ynnerman, Anders; Hotz, Ingrid (The Eurographics Association, 2020)
      Frequency distributions (FD) are an important instrument when analyzing and investigating scientific data. In volumetric visualization, for example, frequency distributions visualized as histograms, often assist the user ...

    • Interactive Classification of Multi-Shell Diffusion MRI With Features From a Dual-Branch CNN Autoencoder 

      Torayev, Agajan; Schultz, Thomas (The Eurographics Association, 2020)
      Multi-shell diffusion MRI and Diffusion Spectrum Imaging are modern neuroimaging modalities that acquire diffusion weighted images at a high angular resolution, while also probing varying levels of diffusion weighting (b ...

    • VCBM 2020: Frontmatter 

      Kozlíková, Barbora; Krone, Michael; Smit, Noeska; Nieselt, Kay; Raidou, Renata Georgia (The Eurographics Association, 2020)

    • 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 ...

    • 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. ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • The Vitruvian Baby: Interactive Reformation of Fetal Ultrasound Data to a T-Position 

      Mörth, Eric; Raidou, Renata Georgia; Viola, Ivan; Smit, Noeska (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging and visualization is often used in medical diagnostics, especially in prenatal screening. Screening the development of the fetus is important to assess possible complications early ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Visual Analytics in Digital Pathology: Challenges and Opportunities 

      Corvò, Alberto; Westenberg, Michel A.; Wimberger-Friedl, Reinhold; Fromme, Stephan; Peeters, Michel M. R.; Driel, Marc A. van; Wijk, Jarke J. van (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      The advances in high-throughput digitization, digital pathology systems, and quantitative image analysis opened new horizons in pathology. The diagnostic work of the pathologists and their role is likely to be augmented ...

    • Using Position-Based Dynamics for Simulating the Mitral Valve in a Decision Support System 

      Walczak, Lars; Georgii, Joachim; Tautz, Lennart; Neugebauer, Mathias; Wamala, Isaac; Sündermann, Simon; Falk, Volkmar; Hennemuth, Anja (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      In mitral valve interventions, surgeons have to select an optimal combination of techniques for every patient. Especially less experienced physicians would benefit from decision support for this process. To support the ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...