Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Surface Extraction Methods from Medical Imaging Data

   1. Towards Automatic Generation of 3D Models of Biological Objects Based on Serial Sections

      • Vincent Jasper Dercksen, Cornelia Brüß, Detlev Stalling, Sabine Gubatz, Udo Seiffert, Hans-Christian Hege

      Pages 3-25

   2. A Topological Approach to Quantitation of Rheumatoid Arthritis

      • Hamish Carr, John Ryan, Maria Joyce, Oliver Fitzgerald, Douglas Veale, Robin Gibney et al.

      Pages 27-37

   3. 3D Visualization of Vasculature: An Overview

      • Bernhard Preim, Steffen Oeltze

      Pages 39-59

   4. 3D Surface Reconstruction from Endoscopic Videos

      • Arie Kaufman, Jianning Wang

      Pages 61-74

3. Geometry Processing in Medical Applications

   1. A Framework for the Visualization of Cross Sectional Data in Biomedical Research

      • Enrico Kienel, Marek Vančo, Guido Brunnett, Thomas Kowalski, Roland Clauß, Wolfgang Knabe

      Pages 77-97

   2. Towards a Virtual Echocardiographic Tutoring System

      • Gerd Reis, Bernd Lappé, Sascha Köhn, Christopher Weber, Martin Bertram, Hans Hagen

      Pages 99-119

   3. Supporting Depth and Motion Perception in Medical Volume Data

      • Jennis Meyer-Spradow, Timo Ropinski, Klaus Hinrichs

      Pages 121-133

4. Visualization of Multi-channel Medical Imaging Data

   1. Multimodal Image Registration for Efficient Multi-resolution Visualization

      • Joerg Meyer

      Pages 137-151

   2. A User-friendly Tool for Semi-automated Segmentation and Surface Extraction from Color Volume Data Using Geometric Feature-space Operations

      • Tetyana Ivanovska, Lars Linsen

      Pages 153-170

5. Vector and Tensor Visualization in Medical Applications

   1. Global Illumination of White Matter Fibers from DT-MRI Data

      • David C. Banks, Carl-Fredrik Westin

      Pages 173-184

   2. Direct Glyph-based Visualization of Diffusion MR Data Using Deformed Spheres

      • Martin Domin, Sönke Langner, Norbert Hosten, Lars Linsen

      Pages 185-204

   3. Visual Analysis of Bioelectric Fields

      • Xavier Tricoche, Rob MacLeod, Chris R. Johnson

      Pages 205-220

   4. MRI-based Visualisation of Orbital Fat Deformation During Eye Motion

      • Charl P. Botha, Thijs de Graaf, Sander Schutte, Ronald Root, Piotr Wielopolski, Frans C.T. van der Helm et al.

      Pages 221-233

6. Visualizing Molecular Structures

   1. Visual Analysis of Biomolecular Surfaces

      • Vijay Natarajan, Patrice Koehl, Yusu Wang, Bernd Hamann

      Pages 237-255

   2. BioBrowser — Visualization of and Access to Macro-Molecular Structures

      • Lars Offen, Dieter Fellner

      Pages 257-273

   3. Visualization of Barrier Tree Sequences Revisited

      • Christian Heine, Gerik Scheuermann, Christoph Flamm, Ivo L. Hofacker, Peter F. Stadler

      Pages 275-290

7. Visualizing Gene Expression Data

   1. Interactive Visualization of Gene Regulatory Networks with Associated Gene Expression Time Series Data

      • Michel A. Westenberg, Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum, Andrzej T. Lulko, Oscar P. Kuipers, Jos B. T. M. Roerdink

      Pages 293-311

   2. Segmenting Gene Expression Patterns of Early-stage Drosophila Embryos

      • Min-Yu Huang, Oliver Rübel, Gunther H. Weber, Cris L. Luengo Hendriks, Mark D. Biggin, Hans Hagen et al.

      Pages 313-327

8. Back Matter

   Pages 329-345

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Visualization technology has become a crucial component of medical and b- medical data processing and analysis. This technology complements tra- tional image processing methods as it allows scientists and practicing medical doctors to visually interact with large, high-resolution three-dimensional - age data. Further, an ever increasing number of new data acquisition me- ods is being used in medicine and the life sciences, in particular in genomics and proteomics. The book contains papers discussing some of the latest data processing and visualization techniques and systems for e?ective analysis of diverse, large, complex, and multi-source data. Internationally leading experts in the area of data visualization came - gether for a workshop dedicated to visualization in medicine and life sciences, held on the island of Rugen, ¨ Germany, in July 2006. About 40 participants presented state-of-the-art research on this topic. Research and survey papers were solicited and carefully refereed, resulting in this collection. The research topics covered by the papers in this book deal with these themes: • Segmentation and Feature Detection • Surface Extraction • Volume Visualization • Graph and Network Visualization • Visual Data Exploration • Multivariate and Multidimensional Data Visualization • Large Data Visualization The workshop was supported, in part, by the Deutsche Forschungsgeme- schaft (DFG).

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• 3D Surface Reconstruction
• Analysis
• construction
• image processing
• life sciences
• visualization

• School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Lars Linsen

• Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Hans Hagen

• Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, USA

  Bernd Hamann

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