Multi-Vis project at Twente

Postdocs working on Multi-Vis:

Avan Suinesiaputra (Leiden)
Elena Zudilova (Amsterdam)
Boris van Schooten (Twente)

People, projects and research groups

• Lehrstuhl fur Visualisierung, Magdeburg
• GRIS
• Eurographics working group on data visualisation
• EVE, simulation group, Massachusetts general hospital
• Milan Sonka, university of Iowa (Some fun demo apps)
• MIAL
• Univ. Louisville, CVIP lab

Conferences and journals

• Medical Image Analysis journal
• IEEE Information Visualisation (IV), 2008 issue. Deadline probably in december.
• IVS, Infomation Visualisation journal (next special issue: 15 oct 2008)
• GRAPP 2009, (deadline 15 sep 2008). Mostly graphical algorithms and techniques (see for example grapp 2008 program
• 3DUI 2009, deadline 24/31 october 2008
• HCI4MED 2009??
• International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS), special issue on Human-computer interaction for medicine and health care (HCI4MED), deadline 14 nov 2008.
• MICCAI
• MIAR
• IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (TITB) (little HCI)
• Medicine meets virtual reality - deadline probably in july
• IEEE computer graphics and applications (not very technical)
• IEEE transactions on visualizations and computer graphics (little UI)
• Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery
• IEEE visualisation (VIS), looks pretty relevant
• CARS (computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery)
• EuroPACS (Europacs meetings)
• computer-aided diagnosis (algorithms only)
• journal of digital imaging (radiology oriented, includes some HCI research)
• Eurographics/Eurovis (includes medical visualization, but little interaction).
• Interfaces (not very technical)
• future generation computer systems (i believe this has changed into grid computing since 2005)
• virtual reality journal
• CHI/HCI(I)/SigCHI/Human Factors in Computing Systems/UIST
• siggraph computer graphics (occasionally includes input devices)
• ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) (cool, but usually special issues)
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) (very general)
• ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (cool)
• Human Factors (cool, but rather broad)
• IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis)
• Springer People and Computers series
• Graphics Interface conference
• international conference on entertainment computing (ICEC)
• international journal of virtual reality (IJVR)
• International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
• vision, modeling, and visualization
• Multimedia systems (broad, occasionally includes 3d interactive systems)
• Radiology
• New Interaction Techniques (NIT), small, held at univ. Tampere

Medical visualisation and segmentation systems

• V3d-Vascular
• Freesurfer
• brain imaging software toolbox
• AutoSPM/ brainmagix
• Analyze
• GE healthcare diagnostic display
• Philips ViewForum
• Disect manual
• Voxar
• Vital images - see overview of vital connect software
• Scalable Grid-based Visualization Framework
• Immersive segmentation at NASA
• orthostereo
• AMIDE - a Medical Imaging Data Examiner
• medical VR at Twente 1
• Medical VR at Twente 2
• More VR at Twente
• OsiriX Viewer
• Viztek professional workstation
• Segment (has nice user manual)
• LUMC segmentation algorithm
• A Review of Vessel Extraction Techniques and Algorithms
• Volumetric Analysis of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
• A Framework for Flexible, Hardware-Accelerated, and High-Quality Volume Rendering
• Virtual Reality in Biological Microscopic Imaging

Software; suitable 3D software platforms

• Check out the NEW volume render applet here!
• Check out the OLD volume render applet here!
• Platforms that we can use

Input and output devices for 3D interaction

• An overview of IO devices
• In-house development of IR tracking input devices

3D editing and adaptive systems

• The first design of a 3D editing task

3D systems and task performance experiments

• 3-D Visualization in Biomedical Applications - overview article with some nice pictures
• Evaluating 3D Task Performance for Fish Tank Virtual Worlds
• Interactive, adaptive, computer aided design
• Leading indicators of CAD experience
• The Stanford volume data archive
• Vascular growth simulation models

Focus + context for zooming/navigation of medical data

• Automatic Camera Path Generation for Graph Navigation in 3D

Depth cue and stereo task performance experiments

• The Relative Contributions of Stereo, Lighting and Background Scenes in Promoting 3D Depth Visualization
• Spatial Cues in 3D Visualization
• The Effects of Cast Shadows and Stereopsis on Performing Computer-Generated Spatial Tasks
• Effects of Stereoscopic and Rotational Displays in a Three-Dimensional Path- Tracing Task (introduces tree path tracing task)
• Evaluating stereo and motion cues for visualizing information nets in three dimensions (introduces network path tracing task)
• An Evaluation of Depth Perception on Volumetric Displays (uses network path tracing task)
• Evaluating 3D task performance for fish tank virtual worlds (uses tree task)
• Visualizing Graphs in Three Dimensions (uses network task)
• 3D Contour Perception for Flow Visualization (orientation task)
• The Partial-Occlusion Effect: Utilizing Semitransparency in 3D Human-Computer Interaction
• A Comparison of Immersive HMD, Fish Tank VR and Fish Tank with Haptics Displays for Volume Visualization (introduces new medical-related task, does not test mono/stereo)
• Using Games to Investigate Movement for Graph Comprehension (introduces new task, no stereo/mono comparison)
• Spatial Cues in 3D Visualization

Adapting to the user

• GRUNDY (recommender): User Modeling via Stereotypes, (long version)
• Orimuhs (personalised help): An Application-Independent Intelligent User Support System Exploiting Action-Sequence Based User Modelling
• Input Configurator, a software architecture for connecting input devices and applications.

Related topics

• CS 6630 : Scientific Visualization Project 4 - Volume Rendering
• More CS 6630

• Chi97 graspable ui paper

• Bimanual and unimanual image alignment
• The Two-Handed Desktop Interface: Are We There Yet?

• Paper + code