• Interactive Multimodal Imaging Visualization for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Analysis 

      Sugathan, Sherin; Bartsch, Hauke; Riemer, Frank; Grüner, Eli Renate; Lawonn, Kai; Smit, Noeska Natasja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a brain disease that is diagnosed and monitored extensively through MRI scans. One of the criteria is the appearance of so-called brain lesions. The lesions show up on MRI scans as regions with ...
    • Interactive visual exploration of metabolite ratios in MR spectroscopy studies 

      Garrison, Laura; Vašíček, Jakub; Craven, Alexander R.; Grüner, Renate; Smit, Noeska Natasja; Bruckner, Stefan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is an advanced biochemical technique used to identify metabolic compounds in living tissue. While its sensitivity and specificity to chemical imbalances render it a valuable tool in ...
    • Is there a Tornado in Alex's Blood Flow? A Case Study for Narrative Medical Visualization 

      Stupak, Evgenia; Kleinau, Anna; Mörth, Eric; Garrison, Laura Ann; Mittenentzwei, Sarah; Smit, Noeska Natasja; Lawonn, Kai; Bruckner, Stefan; Gutberlet, Matthias; Preim, Bernhard; Meuschke, Monique (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Narrative visualization advantageously combines storytelling with new media formats and techniques, like interactivity, to create improved learning experiences. In medicine, it has the potential to improve patient understanding ...
    • Longitudinal visualization for exploratory analysis of multiple sclerosis lesions 

      Sugathan, Sherin; Bartsch, Hauke; Riemer, Frank; Grüner, Eli Renate; Lawonn, Kai; Smit, Noeska Natasja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In multiple sclerosis (MS), the amount of brain damage, anatomical location, shape, and changes are important aspects that help medical researchers and clinicians to understand the temporal patterns of the disease. Interactive ...
    • Memento: Localized time‐warping for spatio‐temporal selection 

      Solteszova, Veronika; Smit, Noeska Natasja; Stoppel, Sergej; Grüner, Renate; Bruckner, Stefan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Interaction techniques for temporal data are often focused on affecting the spatial aspects of the data, for instance through the use of transfer functions, camera navigation or clipping planes. However, the temporal aspect ...
    • Model-based Visualization for Medical Education and Training 

      Smit, Noeska Natasja; Lawonn, Kai; Kraima, Annelot; DeRuiter, Marco; Bruckner, Stefan; Eisemann, Elmar; Vilanova, Anna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Anatomy, or the study of the structure of the human body, is an essential component of medical education. Certain parts of human anatomy are considered to be more complex to understand than others, due to a multitude of ...
    • MuSIC: Multi-Sequential Interactive Co-Registration for Cancer Imaging Data based on Segmentation Masks 

      Eichner, Tanja; Mörth, Eric; Wagner-Larsen, Kari Strøno; Lura, Njål Gjærde; Haldorsen, Ingfrid Helene Salvesen; Gröller, Eduard; Bruckner, Stefan; Smit, Noeska Natasja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In gynecologic cancer imaging, multiple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences are acquired per patient to reveal different tissue characteristics. However, after image acquisition, the anatomical structures can be ...
    • Narrative Medical Visualization to Communicate Disease Data 

      Meuschke, Monique; Garrison, Laura Ann; Smit, Noeska Natasja; Bach, Benjamin; Mittentzwei, Sarah; Weiß, Veronika; Bruckner, Stefan; Lawonn, Kai; Preim, Bernhard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This paper explores narrative techniques combined with medical visualizations to tell data-driven stories about diseases for a general audience. The field of medical illustration uses narrative visualization through ...
    • ScrollyVis: Interactive Visual Authoring of Guided Dynamic Narratives for Scientific Scrollytelling 

      Mörth, Eric; Bruckner, Stefan; Smit, Noeska Natasja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Visual stories are an effective and powerful tool to convey specific information to a diverse public. Scrollytelling is a recent visual storytelling technique extensively used on the web, where content appears or changes ...
    • Ten Open Challenges in Medical Visualization 

      Gillmann, Christina; Smit, Noeska Natasja; Groller, Eduard; Preim, Bernhard; Vilanova, Anna; Wischgoll, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The medical domain has been an inspiring application area in visualization research for many years already, but many open challenges remain. The driving forces of medical visualization research have been strengthened by ...
    • Towards Advanced Interactive Visualization for Virtual Atlases 

      Smit, Noeska Natasja; Bruckner, Stefan (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      An atlas is generally defined as a bound collection of tables, charts or illustrations describing a phenomenon. In an anatomical atlas for example, a collection of representative illustrations and text describes anatomy ...
    • The Vitruvian Baby: Interactive Reformation of Fetal Ultrasound Data to a T-Position 

      Mörth, Eric; Raidou, Renata Georgia; Viola, Ivan; Smit, Noeska Natasja (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging and visualization is often used in medical diagnostics, especially in prenatal screening. Screening the development of the organs of the fetus as well as the overall growth is ...