Tutorial notes may be obtained at http://wwwisg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/cvcms/de/tutorials#IEEEVis2007A.
One of the largest application domains of visualization is medicine. 3D visualization techniques are essential in both daily health-care practice and in clinical research. With the increased spatial and temporal resolution, 3D visualizations combined with simulation and visual analysis techniques become important for selected diagnostic procedures and for a wide range of therapy planning scenarios.
In this tutorial, we explore a variety of advanced topics of visual medicine. In particular, we will discuss the visualization of vascular structures, the exploration and visual analysis of perfusion data, diffusion tensor imaging (with applications in ischemic heart studies and neonate studies), fast tagged multi-resolution volume rendering, OR-fit mixed reality methods for surgery, and the integration of simulation and visualization for surgical planning some of the most actively researched fields in visual medicine. Besides the technical aspects, we will introduce the specific application problems and discuss the requirements on dedicated solutions. The tutorial includes software issues based on an advanced, freely available software system for visualization in medicine: MeVisLab.
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