Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Organizer
Christian Tietjen, University of Magdeburg - Introduction Slides [PDF] | Presentation Slides [PDF]
Additional Speakers
Dirk Bartz, University of Leipzig
Steffen Oeltze, University of Magdeburg
Felix Ritter, MeVis Research
Tim Peeters, Eindhoven University of Technology
Stefan Zachow, Zuse-Institute Berlin
Abstract
One of the largest application domains of visualization is medicine. 3D visualization techniques areessential in both daily health care practice and in clinical research. In particular recent developmentsin image acquisition, diagnostic procedures and minimally- invasive surgery enable and require an advancedplanning and intra- operative support through computer science methods. With the increasedspatial and temporal resolution, 3D visualizations become important for selected diagnostic proceduresand for a wide range of therapy planning scenarios ranging from cardiac diagnosis to neurosurgical interventions.In particular time-varying 3D data requires dedicated visualization and analysis methods.Finally, the advent of intraoperative navigation gives rise to augmented reality techniques to supportmedical doctors during surgery.In this tutorial, we give examples and discuss strategies how to derive visual solutions for specificclinical problems. Therefore, we explore a variety of advanced topics of visual medicine. In particular,we will discuss the use of illustrative visualization techniques, visualization of multimodal volume data,visual analysis of perfusion data, diffusion tensor imaging, OR-fit mixed reality methods for surgery,and computer-assisted surgery–some of the most actively researched fields in visual medicine.