Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine

Program


DAY 1: Monday 6 October


8:00 - 12:00 REGISTRATION
9:00 Opening remarks
9:15 Keynote 1: Prof Nicolas Ayache
  From Medical Images to Virtual Physiological Humans
10:15 Coffee
10:35 SESSION: Cardiovascular imaging and
visualization
 
  • CT Late Enhancement Segmentation for the Combined Analysis of Coronary Arteries and Myocardial Viability
    Anja Hennemuth, Andreas Mahnken, Caroline Kühnel, Steffen Oeltze, and Heinz-Otto Peitgen
  • Glyph-Based Visualization of Myocardial Perfusion Data and Enhancement with Contractility and Viability Information
    Steffen Oeltze, Anja Hennemuth, Sylvia Glaßer, Caroline Kühnel, and Bernhard Preim
  • An Integrated Platform for Dynamic Cardiac Simulation and Image Processing: Application to Personalised Tetralogy of Fallot Simulation
    Nicolas Toussaint, T. Mansi, H. Delingette, Nicholas Ayache, and M. Sermesant
  • Computation and Visualization of Asynchronous Behavior of the Heart
    Stefan Wesarg and Christina Lacalli
12:15 Lunch
13:40 SESSION: Molecular science and surface analysis
 
  • A Haptic Rendering Algorithm for Molecular Interaction
    Matthew B. Stocks and Stephen D. Laycock
  • Computation of more channels in protein molecules
    Petr Beneš, Petr Medek, and Jiri Sochor
  • Surface Curvature Line Clustering for Computer-Aided Diagnosis in CT Colonography
    Lingxiao Zhao, Vincent F. van Ravesteijn, Charl P. Botha, Roel Truyen, Frans M. Vos and Frits H. Post
  • Robust Classification and Analysis of Anatomical Surfaces Using 3D Skeletons
    Dennie Reniers, Andrei Jalba, and Alexandru Telea
15:20 coffee
15:35 SESSION: CT data processing and orthopedics
 
  • Generation of a Mean Motion Model of the Lung Using 4D-CT Image Data
    Jan Ehrhardt, René Werner, Alexander Schmidt-Richberg, Benny Schulz, and Heinz Handels
  • Reconstruction of Blood Vessels from Neck CT Datasets using Stable 3D Mass-Spring Models
    Jana Dornheim, Dirk J. Lehmann, Lars Dornheim, Bernhard Preim, and Gero Strauß
  • Computational Steering for Patient-Specific Implant Planning in Orthopedics
    Christian Dick, Joachim Georgii, Rainer Burgkart, and Rüdiger Westermann
  • Automatic Segmentation of the Pelvic Bones from CT Data Based on a Statistical Shape Model
    Heiko Seim, Dagmar Kainmueller, Markus Heller, Hans Lamecker, Stefan Zachow and Hans-Christian Hege
17:15 END OF DAY PROGRAMME
18:30 - 19:25 Social event: Optional walk through picturesque Delft!i
19:30 - late Social event: Dinner

DAY 2: Tuesday 7 October


8:15 coffee
8:35 SESSION: Volume visualization and GPU
 
  • Information-based Transfer Functions for Multimodal Visualization
    Martin Haidacher, Stefan Bruckner, Armin Kanitsar, and M. Eduard Gröller
  • Focus+Context rendering of structured biomedical data
    Pascual Abellán, Anna Puig, and Dani Tost
  • GPU Accelerated Normalized Mutual Information and B-Spline Transformation
    Matthias Teßmann, Christian Eisenacher, Frank Enders, Marc Stamminger, and Peter Hastreiter
  • Illustrated Ultrasound for Multimodal Interpretation of Liver Examinations
    Ivan Viola, Kim Nylund, Ola Kristoffer Øye, Dag Magne Ulvang, Odd Helge Gilja and Helwig Hauser
10:15 coffee
10:35 SESSION: Research in medicine and biology
 
  • Visual Analysis of Bipartite Biological Networks
    Hans-Jörg Schulz, Mathias John, Andrea Unger, and Heidrun Schumann
  • Automatic Hepatocyte Quantification from Histological Images: Comparing Pre-smoothing filters
    Tetyana Ivanovska, Andrea Schenk, Uta Dahmen, Horst K. Hahn, and Lars Linsen
  • FluoroSim: A Visual Problem-Solving Environment for Fluorescence Microscopy
    Cory W. Quammen, Alvin C. Richardson, Julian Haase, Benjamin D. Harrison, Russell M. Taylor II and Kerry S. Bloom
11:50 Lunch
13:00 Keynote talk 2: Prof. H.O. Peitgen
  Issues of Clinical Relevance
14:00 coffee
14:20 SESSION: Neuro imaging and visualization
 
  • Fully Automatic Skull-Stripping in 3D Time-of-Flight MRA Image Sequences
    Nils Daniel Forkert, Dennis Säring, Jens Fiehler, Till Illies, Matthias Färber, Dietmar Möller and Heinz Handels
  • High-Quality Multimodal Volume Visualization of Intracerebral Pathological Tissue
    Christian Rieder, Michael Schwier, Horst K. Hahn, and Heinz-Otto Peitgen
  • Ontology-Based Visualization of Hierarchical Neuroanatomical Structures
    Anja Kuß, Steffen Prohaska, Björn Meyer, Jürgen Rybak, and Hans-Christian Hege
16:00 closing remarks
16:15 END OF VCBM 2008 PROGRAMME

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