VCBM 17: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine

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Bremen, Germany, September 7 – 8, 2017
Biology and Networks
Protein Tunnel Reprojection for Physico-Chemical Property Analysis
Jan Malzahn, Barbora Kozlíková, and Timo Ropinski
Mammogram Classification and Abnormality Detection from Nonlocal Labels using Deep Multiple Instance Neural Network
Yoni Choukroun, Ran Bakalo, Rami Ben-Ari, Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin, Ella Barkan, and Pavel Kisilev
A Guided Spatial Transformer Network for Histology Cell Differentiation
Marc Aubreville, Maximilian Krappmann, Christof Bertram, Robert Klopfleisch, and Andreas Maier
Design Considerations for Immersive Analytics of Bird Movements Obtained by Miniaturised GPS Sensors
Hieu T. Nim, Björn Sommer, Karsten Klein, Andrea Flack, Kamran Safi, Máté Nagy, Wolfgang Fiedler, Martin Wikelski, and Falk Schreiber
Exploration and Visual Analysis
Watergate: Visual Exploration of Water Trajectories in Protein Dynamics
Viktor Vad, Jan Byška, Adam Jurcík, Ivan Viola, Eduard Gröller, Helwig Hauser, Sérgio M. Margues, Jiří Damborský, and Barbora Kozlíková
Visual Analytics of Missing Data in Epidemiological Cohort Studies
Shiva Alemzadeh, Uli Niemann, Till Ittermann, Henry Völzke, Daniel Schneider, Myra Spiliopoulou, and Bernhard Preim
Comparative Visualization for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Group Study at Multiple Levels of Detail
Changgong Zhang, Thomas Höllt, Matthan W. A. Caan, Elmar Eisemann, and Anna Vilanova
Visualizing and Exploring Dynamic Multichannel EEG Coherence Networks
Chengtao Ji, Jasper J. van de Gronde, Natasha M. Maurits, and Jos B. T. M. Roerdink
Applications
HIFUtk: Visual Analytics for High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Simulation
Daniela Modena, Edmond van Dijk, Dragan Bošnacki, Huub M. M. ten Eikelder, and Michel A. Westenberg
CT-Based Navigation Guidance for Liver Tumor Ablation
Julian Alpers, Christian Hansen, Kristina Ringe, and Christian Rieder
Visual Navigation Support for Liver Applicator Placement using Interactive Map Displays
Julian Hettig, Gabriel Mistelbauer, Christian Rieder, Kai Lawonn, and Christian Hansen
Application of Image Processing Functions for Brain Tumor Enhancement in Intraoperative Ultrasound Image Data
Claire Chalopin, Elisee Ilunga Mbuyamba, Jesus Guillermo Cabal Aragon, Juan Carlos Camacho Rodriguez, Felix Arlt, Juan Gabriel Avina Cervantes, Juergen Meixensberger, and Dirk Lindner
Short Papers
MRI Hip Joint Segmentation: A Locally Bhattacharyya Weighted Hybrid 3D Level Set Approach
Duc Duy Pham, Cosmin Adrian Morariu, Tobias Terheiden, Stefan Landgraeber, Marcus Jäger, and Josef Pauli
Multi-fiber Estimation and Tractography for Diffusion MRI using mixture of Non-central Wishart Distributions
Snehlata Shakya, Xuan Gu, Nazre Batool, Evren Özarslan, and Hans Knutsson
Automatic Thrombus Detection in Non-enhanced Computed Tomography Images in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke
Patrick Löber, Bernhard Stimpel, Christopher Syben, Andreas Maier, Hendrik Ditt, Peter Schramm, Boy Raczkowski, and André Kemmling
Maximizing AUC with Deep Learning for Classification of Imbalanced Mammogram Datasets
Jeremias Sulam, Rami Ben-Ari, and Pavel Kisilev
A Web-Based Tool for Cardiac Dyssynchrony Assessment on Ultrasound Data
Daniele Pezzatini, Carlos Yagüe, Paula Rudenick, Josep Blat, Bart Bijnens, and Oscar Camara
UI-Net: Interactive Artificial Neural Networks for Iterative Image Segmentation Based on a User Model
Mario Amrehn, Sven Gaube, Mathias Unberath, Frank Schebesch, Tim Horz, Maddalena Strumia, Stefan Steidl, Markus Kowarschik, and Andreas Maier
Shape and Models
Bone Fracture and Lesion Assessment using Shape-Adaptive Unfolding
Hannes Martinke, Christian Petry, Stefan Großkopf, Michael Suehling, Grzegorz Soza, Bernhard Preim, and Gabriel Mistelbauer
Combining Pseudo Chroma Depth Enhancement and Parameter Mapping for Vascular Surface Models
Benjamin Behrendt, Philipp Berg, Bernhard Preim, and Sylvia Saalfeld
Exploration of Interventricular Septum Motion in Multi-Cycle Cardiac MRI
Lennart Tautz, Markus Hüllebrand, Michael Steinmetz, Dirk Voit, Jens Frahm, and Anja Hennemuth
Concentric Circle Glyphs for Enhanced Depth-Judgment in Vascular Models
Nils Lichtenberg, Christian Hansen, and Kai Lawonn

BibTeX (VCBM 17: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine)
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171231,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Protein Tunnel Reprojection for Physico-Chemical Property Analysis}},
author = {
Malzahn, Jan
and
Kozlíková, Barbora
and
Ropinski, Timo
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171231}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171232,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Mammogram Classification and Abnormality Detection from Nonlocal Labels using Deep Multiple Instance Neural Network}},
author = {
Choukroun, Yoni
and
Bakalo, Ran
and
Ben-Ari, Rami
and
Akselrod-Ballin, Ayelet
and
Barkan, Ella
and
Kisilev, Pavel
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171232}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171233,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
A Guided Spatial Transformer Network for Histology Cell Differentiation}},
author = {
Aubreville, Marc
and
Krappmann, Maximilian
and
Bertram, Christof
and
Klopfleisch, Robert
and
Maier, Andreas
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171233}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171234,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Design Considerations for Immersive Analytics of Bird Movements Obtained by Miniaturised GPS Sensors}},
author = {
Nim, Hieu T.
and
Sommer, Björn
and
Klein, Karsten
and
Flack, Andrea
and
Safi, Kamran
and
Nagy, Máté
and
Fiedler, Wolfgang
and
Wikelski, Martin
and
Schreiber, Falk
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171234}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171235,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Watergate: Visual Exploration of Water Trajectories in Protein Dynamics}},
author = {
Vad, Viktor
and
Byška, Jan
and
Jurcík, Adam
and
Viola, Ivan
and
Gröller, Eduard
and
Hauser, Helwig
and
Marques, Sérgio M.
and
Damborský, Jiří
and
Kozlíková, Barbora
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171235}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171236,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Visual Analytics of Missing Data in Epidemiological Cohort Studies}},
author = {
Alemzadeh, Shiva
and
Niemann, Uli
and
Ittermann, Till
and
Völzke, Henry
and
Schneider, Daniel
and
Spiliopoulou, Myra
and
Preim, Bernhard
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171236}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171237,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Comparative Visualization for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Group Study at Multiple Levels of Detail}},
author = {
Zhang, Changgong
and
Höllt, Thomas
and
Caan, Matthan W. A.
and
Eisemann, Elmar
and
Vilanova, Anna
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171237}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171238,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Visualizing and Exploring Dynamic Multichannel EEG Coherence Networks}},
author = {
Ji, Chengtao
and
Gronde, Jasper J. van de
and
Maurits, Natasha M.
and
Roerdink, Jos B. T. M.
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171238}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171240,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
CT-Based Navigation Guidance for Liver Tumor Ablation}},
author = {
Alpers, Julian
and
Hansen, Christian
and
Ringe, Kristina
and
Rieder, Christian
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171240}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171239,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
HIFUtk: Visual Analytics for High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Simulation}},
author = {
Modena, Daniela
and
Dijk, Edmond van
and
Bošnacki, Dragan
and
Eikelder, Huub M. M. ten
and
Westenberg, Michel A.
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171239}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171241,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Visual Navigation Support for Liver Applicator Placement using Interactive Map Displays}},
author = {
Hettig, Julian
and
Mistelbauer, Gabriel
and
Rieder, Christian
and
Lawonn, Kai
and
Hansen, Christian
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171241}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171242,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Application of Image Processing Functions for Brain Tumor Enhancement in Intraoperative Ultrasound Image Data}},
author = {
Chalopin, Claire
and
Mbuyamba, Elisee Ilunga
and
Aragon, Jesus Guillermo Cabal
and
Rodriguez, Juan Carlos Camacho
and
Arlt, Felix
and
Cervantes, Juan Gabriel Avina
and
Meixensberger, Juergen
and
Lindner, Dirk
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171242}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171244,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Multi-fiber Estimation and Tractography for Diffusion MRI using mixture of Non-central Wishart Distributions}},
author = {
Shakya, Snehlata
and
Gu, Xuan
and
Batool, Nazre
and
Özarslan, Evren
and
Knutsson, Hans
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171244}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171245,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Automatic Thrombus Detection in Non-enhanced Computed Tomography Images in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke}},
author = {
Löber, Patrick
and
Stimpel, Bernhard
and
Syben, Christopher
and
Maier, Andreas
and
Ditt, Hendrik
and
Schramm, Peter
and
Raczkowski, Boy
and
Kemmling, André
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171245}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171243,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
MRI Hip Joint Segmentation: A Locally Bhattacharyya Weighted Hybrid 3D Level Set Approach}},
author = {
Pham, Duc Duy
and
Morariu, Cosmin Adrian
and
Terheiden, Tobias
and
Landgraeber, Stefan
and
Jäger, Marcus
and
Pauli, Josef
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171243}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171247,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
A Web-Based Tool for Cardiac Dyssynchrony Assessment on Ultrasound Data}},
author = {
Pezzatini, Daniele
and
Yagüe, Carlos
and
Rudenick, Paula
and
Blat, Josep
and
Bijnens, Bart
and
Camara, Oscar
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171247}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171248,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
UI-Net: Interactive Artificial Neural Networks for Iterative Image Segmentation Based on a User Model}},
author = {
Amrehn, Mario
and
Gaube, Sven
and
Unberath, Mathias
and
Schebesch, Frank
and
Horz, Tim
and
Strumia, Maddalena
and
Steidl, Stefan
and
Kowarschik, Markus
and
Maier, Andreas
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171248}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171246,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Maximizing AUC with Deep Learning for Classification of Imbalanced Mammogram Datasets}},
author = {
Sulam, Jeremias
and
Ben-Ari, Rami
and
Kisilev, Pavel
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171246}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171250,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Combining Pseudo Chroma Depth Enhancement and Parameter Mapping for Vascular Surface Models}},
author = {
Behrendt, Benjamin
and
Berg, Philipp
and
Preim, Bernhard
and
Saalfeld, Sylvia
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171250}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171249,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Bone Fracture and Lesion Assessment using Shape-Adaptive Unfolding}},
author = {
Martinke, Hannes
and
Petry, Christian
and
Großkopf, Stefan
and
Suehling, Michael
and
Soza, Grzegorz
and
Preim, Bernhard
and
Mistelbauer, Gabriel
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171249}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171251,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Exploration of Interventricular Septum Motion in Multi-Cycle Cardiac MRI}},
author = {
Tautz, Lennart
and
Hüllebrand, Markus
and
Steinmetz, Michael
and
Voit, Dirk
and
Frahm, Jens
and
Hennemuth, Anja
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171251}
}
@inproceedings{
10.2312:vcbm.20171252,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {
Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
}, title = {{
Concentric Circle Glyphs for Enhanced Depth-Judgment in Vascular Models}},
author = {
Lichtenberg, Nils
and
Hansen, Christian
and
Lawonn, Kai
}, year = {
2017},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-036-9},
DOI = {
10.2312/vcbm.20171252}
}

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    Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine 2017: Frontmatter
    (Eurographics Association, 2017) Bruckner, Stefan; Hennemuth, Anja; Kainz, Bernhard; Hotz, Ingrid; Merhof, Dorit; Rieder, Christian; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
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    Protein Tunnel Reprojection for Physico-Chemical Property Analysis
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Malzahn, Jan; Kozlíková, Barbora; Ropinski, Timo; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Cavities are crucial for interactions of proteins with other molecules. While a variety of different cavity types exists, tunnels in particular play an important role, as they enable a ligand to deeply enter the active site of a protein where chemical reactions can undergo. Consequently, domain scientists are interested in understanding properties relevant for binding interactions inside molecular tunnels. Unfortunately, when inspecting a 3D representation of the molecule under investigation, tunnels are difficult to analyze due to occlusion issues. Therefore, within this paper we propose a novel reprojection technique that transforms the 3D structure of a molecule to obtain a 2D representation of the tunnel interior. The reprojection has been designed with respect to application-oriented design guidelines, we have identified together with our domain partners. To comply with these guidelines, the transformation preserves individual residues, while the result is capable of showing binding properties inside the tunnel without suffering from occlusions. Thus the reprojected tunnel interior can be used to display physico-chemical properties, e.g., hydrophobicity or amino acid orientation, of residues near a tunnel's surface. As these properties are essential for the interaction between protein and ligand, they can thus hint angles of attack for protein engineers. To demonstrate the benefits of the developed visualization, the obtained results are discussed with respect to domain expert feedback.
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    Mammogram Classification and Abnormality Detection from Nonlocal Labels using Deep Multiple Instance Neural Network
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Choukroun, Yoni; Bakalo, Ran; Ben-Ari, Rami; Akselrod-Ballin, Ayelet; Barkan, Ella; Kisilev, Pavel; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Abstract Mammography is the common modality used for screening and early detection of breast cancer. The emergence of machine learning, particularly deep learning methods, aims to assist radiologists to reach higher sensitivity and specificity. Yet, typical supervised machine learning methods demand the radiological images to have findings annotated within the image. This is a tedious task, which is often out of reach due to the high cost and unavailability of expert radiologists. We describe a computeraided detection and diagnosis system for weakly supervised learning, where the mammogram (MG) images are tagged only on a global level, without local annotations. Our work addresses the problem of MG classification and detection of abnormal findings through a novel deep learning framework built on the multiple instance learning (MIL) paradigm. Our proposed method processes the MG image utilizing the full resolution, with a deep MIL convolutional neural network. This approach allows us to classify the whole MG according to a severity score and localize the source of abnormality in full resolution, while trained on a weakly labeled data set. The key hallmark of our approach is automatic discovery of the discriminating patches in the mammograms using MIL. We validate the proposed method on two mammogram data sets, a large multi-center MG cohort and the publicly available INbreast, in two different scenarios. We present promising results in classification and detection, comparable to a recent supervised method that was trained on fully annotated data set. As the volume and complexity of data in healthcare continues to increase, such an approach may have a profound impact on patient care in many applications.
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    A Guided Spatial Transformer Network for Histology Cell Differentiation
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Aubreville, Marc; Krappmann, Maximilian; Bertram, Christof; Klopfleisch, Robert; Maier, Andreas; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Identification and counting of cells and mitotic figures is a standard task in diagnostic histopathology. Due to the large overall cell count on histological slides and the potential sparse prevalence of some relevant cell types or mitotic figures, retrieving annotation data for sufficient statistics is a tedious task and prone to a significant error in assessment. Automatic classification and segmentation is a classic task in digital pathology, yet it is not solved to a sufficient degree. We present a novel approach for cell and mitotic figure classification, based on a deep convolutional network with an incorporated Spatial Transformer Network. The network was trained on a novel data set with ten thousand mitotic figures, about ten times more than previous data sets. The algorithm is able to derive the cell class (mitotic tumor cells, non-mitotic tumor cells and granulocytes) and their position within an image. The mean accuracy of the algorithm in a five-fold cross-validation is 91.45 %. In our view, the approach is a promising step into the direction of a more objective and accurate, semi-automatized mitosis counting supporting the pathologist.
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    Design Considerations for Immersive Analytics of Bird Movements Obtained by Miniaturised GPS Sensors
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Nim, Hieu T.; Sommer, Björn; Klein, Karsten; Flack, Andrea; Safi, Kamran; Nagy, Máté; Fiedler, Wolfgang; Wikelski, Martin; Schreiber, Falk; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Recent advances in miniaturising sensor tags allow to obtain high-resolution bird trajectories, presenting an opportunity for immersive close-up observation of individual and group behaviour in mid-air. The combination of geographical, environmental, and movement data is well suited for investigation in immersive analytics environments. We explore the benefits and requirements of a wide range of such environments, and illustrate a multi-platform immersive analytics solution, based on a tiled 3D display wall and head-mounted displays (Google Cardboard, HTC Vive and Microsoft Hololens). Tailored to biologists studying bird movement data, the immersive environment provides a novel interactive mode to explore the geolocational time-series data. This paper aims to inform the 3D visualisation research community about design considerations obtained from a real world data set in different 3D immersive environments. This work also contributes to ongoing research efforts to promote better understanding of bird migration and the associated environmental factors at the planet-level scale, thereby capturing the public awareness of environmental issues.
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    Watergate: Visual Exploration of Water Trajectories in Protein Dynamics
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Vad, Viktor; Byška, Jan; Jurcík, Adam; Viola, Ivan; Gröller, Eduard; Hauser, Helwig; Marques, Sérgio M.; Damborský, Jiří; Kozlíková, Barbora; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    The function of proteins is tightly related to their interactions with other molecules. The study of such interactions often requires to track the molecules that enter or exit specific regions of the proteins. This is investigated with molecular dynamics simulations, producing the trajectories of thousands of water molecules during hundreds of thousands of time steps. To ease the exploration of such rich spatio-temporal data, we propose a novel workflow for the analysis and visualization of large sets of water-molecule trajectories. Our solution consists of a set of visualization techniques, which help biochemists to classify, cluster, and filter the trajectories and to explore the properties and behavior of selected subsets in detail. Initially, we use an interactive histogram and a time-line visualization to give an overview of all water trajectories and select the interesting ones for further investigation. Further, we depict clusters of trajectories in a novel 2D representation illustrating the flows of water molecules. These views are interactively linked with a 3D representation where we show individual paths, including their simplification, as well as extracted statistical information displayed by isosurfaces. The proposed solution has been designed in tight collaboration with experts to support specific tasks in their scientific workflows. They also conducted several case studies to evaluate the usability and effectiveness of our new solution with respect to their research scenarios. These confirmed that our proposed solution helps in analyzing water trajectories and in extracting the essential information out of the large amount of input data.
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    Visual Analytics of Missing Data in Epidemiological Cohort Studies
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Alemzadeh, Shiva; Niemann, Uli; Ittermann, Till; Völzke, Henry; Schneider, Daniel; Spiliopoulou, Myra; Preim, Bernhard; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    We introduce a visual analytics solution to analyze and treat missing values. Our solution is based on general approaches to handle missing values, but is fine-tuned to the problems in epidemiological cohort study data. The most severe missingness problem in these data is the considerable dropout rate in longitudinal studies that limits the power of statistical analysis and the validity of study findings. Our work is inspired by discussions with epidemiologists and tries to add visual components to their current statistics-based approaches. In this paper we provide a graphical user interface for exploration, imputation and checking the quality of imputations.
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    Comparative Visualization for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Group Study at Multiple Levels of Detail
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Zhang, Changgong; Höllt, Thomas; Caan, Matthan W. A.; Eisemann, Elmar; Vilanova, Anna; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) group studies often require the comparison of two groups of 3D diffusion tensor fields. The total number of datasets involved in the study and the multivariate nature of diffusion tensors together make this a challenging process. The traditional approach is to reduce the six-dimensional diffusion tensor to some scalar quantities, which can be analyzed with univariate statistical methods, and visualized with standard techniques such as slice views. However, this provides merely part of the whole story due to information reduction. If to take the full tensor information into account, only few methods are available, and they focus on the analysis of a single group, rather than the comparison of two groups. Simultaneously comparing two groups of diffusion tensor fields by simple juxtaposition or superposition is rather impractical. In this work, we extend previous work by Zhang et al. [ZCH 17] to visually compare two groups of diffusion tensor fields. To deal with the wealth of information, the comparison is carried out at multiple levels of detail. In the 3D spatial domain, we propose a detailson- demand glyph representation to support the visual comparison of the tensor ensemble summary information in a progressive manner. The spatial view guides analysts to select voxels of interest. Then at the detail level, the respective original tensor ensembles are compared in terms of tensor intrinsic properties, with special care taken to reduce visual clutter. We demonstrate the usefulness of our visual analysis system by comparing a control group and an HIV positive patient group.
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    Visualizing and Exploring Dynamic Multichannel EEG Coherence Networks
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Ji, Chengtao; Gronde, Jasper J. van de; Maurits, Natasha M.; Roerdink, Jos B. T. M.; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    An electroencephalography (EEG) coherence network represents functional brain connectivity, and is constructed by calculating the coherence between pairs of electrode signals as a function of frequency. Visualization of coherence networks can provide insight into unexpected patterns of cognitive processing and help neuroscientists to understand brain mechanisms. However, visualizing dynamic EEG coherence networks is a challenge for the analysis of brain connectivity, especially when the spatial structure of the network needs to be taken into account. In this paper, we present a design and implementation of a visualization framework for such dynamic networks. First, requirements for supporting typical tasks in the context of dynamic functional connectivity network analysis were collected from neuroscience researchers. In our design, we consider groups of network nodes and their corresponding spatial location for visualizing the evolution of the dynamic coherence network. We introduce an augmented timeline-based representation to provide an overview of the evolution of functional units (FUs) and their spatial location over time. This representation can help the viewer to identify relations between functional connectivity and brain regions, as well as to identify persistent or transient functional connectivity patterns across the whole timewindow. In addition, we modified the FU map representation to facilitate comparison of the behavior of nodes between consecutive FU maps. Our implementation also supports interactive exploration. The usefulness of our visualization design was evaluated by an informal user study. The feedback we received shows that our design supports exploratory analysis tasks well. The method can serve as an preprocessing step before a complete analysis of dynamic EEG coherence networks.
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    CT-Based Navigation Guidance for Liver Tumor Ablation
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Alpers, Julian; Hansen, Christian; Ringe, Kristina; Rieder, Christian; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Image-guided thermal ablation procedures such as microwave ablation (MWA) or radiofrequency ablation (RFA) have become clinically accepted treatment options for liver tumors. The goal of these minimally invasive procedures is the destruction of focal liver malignancies using mostly needle-shaped instruments. Computed tomography (CT) imaging may be used to navigate the applicator to the target position in order to achieve complete tumor ablation. Due to limited image quality and resolution, the treatment target and risk structures may be hardly visible in intra-interventional CT-images, hampering verification of the intended applicator position. In this work, we propose a navigation guidance method based only on CT images to support the physician with additional information to reach the target position. Therefore, planning information extracted from pre-interventional images is fused with the current intra-interventional image. The visible applicator is extracted semi-automatically from the intra-interventional image. The localization of the needle instrument is used to guide the physician by display of the pathway, projection of anatomical structures, and correction suggestions. In an evaluation, we demonstrate the potential of the proposed method to improve the clinical success rate of complex liver tumor ablations while increasing the accuracy and reducing the number of intra-interventional CT images needed.
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    HIFUtk: Visual Analytics for High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Simulation
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Modena, Daniela; Dijk, Edmond van; Bošnacki, Dragan; Eikelder, Huub M. M. ten; Westenberg, Michel A.; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Magnetic Resonance-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MR-HIFU) is a novel and non-invasive therapeutic method. It can be used to locally increase the temperature in a target position in the human body. HIFU procedures are helpful for the treatment of soft tissue tumors and bone metastases. In vivo research with HIFU systems poses several challenges, therefore, a flexible and fast computer model for HIFU propagation and tissue heating is crucial. We introduce HIFUtk, a visual analytics environment to define, perform, and visualize HIFU simulations. We illustrate the use of HIFUtk by applying HIFU to a rabbit bone model, focusing on two common research questions related to HIFU. The first question concerns the relation between the ablated region shape and the focal point position, and the second one concerns the effect of shear waves on the temperature distribution in bone. These use cases demonstrate that HIFUtk provides a flexible visual analytics environment to investigate the effects of HIFU in various type of materials.
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    Visual Navigation Support for Liver Applicator Placement using Interactive Map Displays
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Hettig, Julian; Mistelbauer, Gabriel; Rieder, Christian; Lawonn, Kai; Hansen, Christian; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Navigated placement of an ablation applicator in liver surgery would benefit from an effective intraoperative visualization of delicate 3D anatomical structures. In this paper, we propose an approach that facilitates surgery with an interactive as well as an animated map display to support navigated applicator placement in the liver. By reducing the visual complexity of 3D anatomical structures, we provide only the most important information on and around a planned applicator path. By employing different illustrative visualization techniques, the applicator path and its surrounding critical structures, such as blood vessels, are clearly conveyed in an unobstructed way. To retain contextual information around the applicator path and its tip, we desaturate these structures with increasing distance. To alleviate time-consuming and tedious interaction during surgery, our visualization is controlled solely by the position and orientation of a tracked applicator. This enables a direct interaction with the map display without interruption of the intervention. Based on our requirement analysis, we conducted a pilot study with eleven participants and an interactive user study with six domain experts to assess the task completion time, error rate, visual parameters and the usefulness of the animation. The outcome of our pilot study shows that our map display facilitates significantly faster decision making (11.8 s vs. 40.9 s) and significantly fewer false assessments of structures at risk (7.4 % vs. 10.3 %) compared to a currently employed 3D visualization. Furthermore, the animation supports timely perception of the course and depth of upcoming blood vessels, and helps to detect possible areas at risk along the path in advance. Hence, the obtained results demonstrate that our proposed interactive map displays exhibit potential to improve the outcome of navigated liver interventions.
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    Application of Image Processing Functions for Brain Tumor Enhancement in Intraoperative Ultrasound Image Data
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Chalopin, Claire; Mbuyamba, Elisee Ilunga; Aragon, Jesus Guillermo Cabal; Rodriguez, Juan Carlos Camacho; Arlt, Felix; Cervantes, Juan Gabriel Avina; Meixensberger, Juergen; Lindner, Dirk; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    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 surgeon by optimally planning the position and size of the skull opening. After tumor resection, the visualization of the iUS image data enables to identify possible tumor residuals. However, the iUS image data can be complex to interpret. Existing segmentation and registration functions were assembled into pipeline to enhance brain tumor contours in the 3D iUS image data. A brain tumor model, semi-automatically segmented in the preoperative MR data of patients, is rigidly registered with the 3D iUS image using image gradient information. The contour of the registered tumor model is visualized on the monitor of the navigation system. The rigid registration step was offline evaluated on 15 patients who overcame a brain tumor operation. The registered tumor models were compared with manual segmentations of the brain tumor in the 3D iUS data. Averaged DSI values of 82.3% and 68.4% and averaged contour mean distances of 1.7 mm and 3.3 mm were obtained for brain metastases and glioblastomas respectively. Future works will include the improvement of the functions in the pipeline, the integration of the pipeline into a centralized assistance system including further fonctionalities and connected with the navigation system, and the evaluation of the system during brain tumor operations.
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    Multi-fiber Estimation and Tractography for Diffusion MRI using mixture of Non-central Wishart Distributions
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Shakya, Snehlata; Gu, Xuan; Batool, Nazre; Özarslan, Evren; Knutsson, Hans; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Multi-compartmental models are popular to resolve intra-voxel fiber heterogeneity. One such model is the mixture of central Wishart distributions. In this paper, we use our recently proposed model to estimate the orientations of crossing fibers within a voxel based on mixture of non-central Wishart distributions. We present a thorough comparison of the results from other fiber reconstruction methods with this model. The comparative study includes experiments on a range of separation angles between crossing fibers, with different noise levels, and on real human brain diffusion MRI data. Furthermore, we present multi-fiber visualization results using tractography. Results on synthetic and real data as well as tractography visualization highlight the superior performance of the model specifically for small and middle ranges of separation angles among crossing fibers.
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    Automatic Thrombus Detection in Non-enhanced Computed Tomography Images in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Löber, Patrick; Stimpel, Bernhard; Syben, Christopher; Maier, Andreas; Ditt, Hendrik; Schramm, Peter; Raczkowski, Boy; Kemmling, André; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    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) images. Possible hyperdense thrombus candidates are extracted by thresholding and connected component clustering. A set of different features is computed to describe the objects, and a Random Forest classifier is applied to predict them. Thrombus classification yields 98.7% sensitivity with 6.7 false positives per volume, and 91.1% sensitivity with 2.7 false positives per volume. The classifier assigns a clot probability > = 90% for every thrombus with a volume larger than 100 mm3 or with a length above 23 mm, and can be used as a reliable method to detect blood clots.
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    MRI Hip Joint Segmentation: A Locally Bhattacharyya Weighted Hybrid 3D Level Set Approach
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Pham, Duc Duy; Morariu, Cosmin Adrian; Terheiden, Tobias; Landgraeber, Stefan; Jäger, Marcus; Pauli, Josef; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid level set approach that locally balances the combined use of both Gradient Vector Flow and region based energy cost function by means of the Bhattacharyya coefficient. The local neighborhood of each contour point is naturally divided into an area encapsulated and one excluded by the contour. We propose utilizing the Bhattacharyya coefficient of the intensity distributions of these local areas to determine a point-wise weighting scheme for the curve propagation. The performance of our method regarding segmentation quality is evaluated on the segmentation of the hip joint in 10 MRI data sets. Our proposed method shows a clear improvement compared to conventional 3D level set approaches.
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    A Web-Based Tool for Cardiac Dyssynchrony Assessment on Ultrasound Data
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Pezzatini, Daniele; Yagüe, Carlos; Rudenick, Paula; Blat, Josep; Bijnens, Bart; Camara, Oscar; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a broadly used therapy in patients that suffers from heart failure (HF). The positive outcome of CRT depends strongly on the parameters criteria used to select patients and a lot of research has been done to introduce new and more reliable parameters. In this paper we propose an interactive tool to perform visual assessment and measurements on cardiac ultrasound images of patient with cardiac dyssynchrony. The tool is developed as a web application, allowing doctors to remotely access images and measurements.
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    UI-Net: Interactive Artificial Neural Networks for Iterative Image Segmentation Based on a User Model
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Amrehn, Mario; Gaube, Sven; Unberath, Mathias; Schebesch, Frank; Horz, Tim; Strumia, Maddalena; Steidl, Stefan; Kowarschik, Markus; Maier, Andreas; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    For complex segmentation tasks, fully automatic systems are inherently limited in their achievable accuracy for extracting relevant objects. Especially in cases where only few data sets need to be processed for a highly accurate result, semi-automatic segmentation techniques exhibit a clear benefit for the user. One area of application is medical image processing during an intervention for a single patient.We propose a learning-based cooperative segmentation approach which includes the computing entity as well as the user into the task. Our system builds upon a state-of-the-art fully convolutional artificial neural network (FCN) as well as an active user model for training. During the segmentation process, a user of the trained system can iteratively add additional hints in form of pictorial scribbles as seed points into the FCN system to achieve an interactive and precise segmentation result. The segmentation quality of interactive FCNs is evaluated. Iterative FCN approaches can yield superior results compared to networks without the user input channel component, due to a consistent improvement in segmentation quality after each interaction.
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    Maximizing AUC with Deep Learning for Classification of Imbalanced Mammogram Datasets
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Sulam, Jeremias; Ben-Ari, Rami; Kisilev, Pavel; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Breast cancer is the second most common cause of death in women. Computer-aided diagnosis typically demand for carefully annotated data, precise tumor allocation and delineation of the boundaries, which is rarely available in the medical system. In this paper we present a new deep learning approach for classification of mammograms that requires only a global binary label. Traditional deep learning methods typically employ classification error losses, which are highly biased by class imbalance - a situation that naturally arises in medical classification problems.We hereby suggest a novel loss measure that directly maximizes the Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC), providing an unbiased loss. We validate the proposed model on two mammogram datasets: IMG, comprising of 796 patients, 80 positive (164 images) and 716 negative (1869 images), and the publicly available dataset INbreast. Our results are encouraging, as the proposed scheme achieves an AUC of 0.76 and 0.65 for IMG and INbreast, respectively.
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    Combining Pseudo Chroma Depth Enhancement and Parameter Mapping for Vascular Surface Models
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Behrendt, Benjamin; Berg, Philipp; Preim, Bernhard; Saalfeld, Sylvia; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    The presence of depth cues in a visualization can be a great aid in understanding the structure and topology of a vessel tree. Pseudo Chromadepth is a well-known technique for enhancing depth perception in vascular 3D models. Since it strongly relies on the color channel to convey its depth cues, it is traditionally not suited for combined visualizations comprising color-encoded surface parameters. In this paper, we present and evaluate the use of a modified form of Pseudo Chromadepth that supports displaying additional surface parameters using the color channel while still increasing depth perception. This technique has been designed for the visualization of cerebral aneurysm models. We have combined a discretized color scale to visualize the surface parameter with the Pseudo Chromadepth color scale to convey depth using a Fresnel-inspired blending mask. To evaluate our approach, we have conducted two consecutive studies. The first was performed with 104 participants from the general public and the second with eleven experts in the fields of medical engineering and flow simulation. These studies show that Pseudo Chromadepth can be used in conjunction with color-encoded surface attributes to support depth perception as long as the color scale is chosen appropriately.
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    Bone Fracture and Lesion Assessment using Shape-Adaptive Unfolding
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Martinke, Hannes; Petry, Christian; Großkopf, Stefan; Suehling, Michael; Soza, Grzegorz; Preim, Bernhard; Mistelbauer, Gabriel; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    The assessment of rib bone fractures and lesions consists of many images that have to be thoroughly inspected slice-by-slice and rib-by-rib. Existing visualization methods, such as curved planar reformation (CPR), reduce the number of images to inspect and, in turn, the time spent per case. However, this task remains time-consuming and exhausting. In this paper, we propose a novel rib unfolding strategy that considers the cross-sectional shape of each rib individually and independently. This leads to shape-adaptive slices through the ribs. By aggregating these slices into a single image, we support radiologists with a concise overview visualization of the entire rib cage for fracture and lesion assessment. We present results of our approach along different cases of rib and spinal fractures as well as lesions. To assess the applicability of our method, we separately evaluated the segmentation (with 954 data sets) and the visualization (with two clinical coaches).
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    Exploration of Interventricular Septum Motion in Multi-Cycle Cardiac MRI
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Tautz, Lennart; Hüllebrand, Markus; Steinmetz, Michael; Voit, Dirk; Frahm, Jens; Hennemuth, Anja; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Function of the heart, including interventricular septum motion, is influenced by respiration and contraction of the heart muscle. Recent real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can acquire multi-cycle cardiac data, which enables the analysis of the variation between heart cycles depending on factors such as physical stress or changes in respiration. There are no normal values for this variation in the literature, and there are no established tools for the analysis and exploration of such multi-cycle data available. We propose an analysis and exploration concept that automatically segments the left and right ventricle, extracts motion parameters and allows to interactively explore the results. We tested the concept using nine real-time MRI data sets, including one subject under increasing stress levels and one subject performing a breathing maneuver. All data sets could be automatically processed and then explored successfully, suggesting that our approach can robustly quantify and explore septum thickness in real-time MRI data.
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    Concentric Circle Glyphs for Enhanced Depth-Judgment in Vascular Models
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Lichtenberg, Nils; Hansen, Christian; Lawonn, Kai; Stefan Bruckner and Anja Hennemuth and Bernhard Kainz and Ingrid Hotz and Dorit Merhof and Christian Rieder
    Using 3D models of medical data for surgery or treatment planning requires a comprehensive visualization of the data. This is crucial to support the physician in creating a cognitive image of the presented model. Vascular models are complex structures and, thus, the correct spatial interpretation is difficult. We propose view-dependent circle glyphs that enhance depth perception in vascular models. The glyphs are automatically placed on vessel end-points in a balanced manner. For this, we introduce a vessel end-point detection algorithm as a pre-processing step and an extensible, feature-driven glyph filtering strategy. Our glyphs are simple to implement and allow an enhanced and quick judgment of the depth value that they represent. We conduct a qualitative evaluation to compare our approach with two existing approaches, that enhance depth perception with illustrative visualization techniques. The evaluation shows that our glyphs perform better in the general case and decisively outperform the reference techniques when it comes to just noticeable differences.