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By cpbotha, March 30, 2010 12:52

Yesterday we received the very sad news that our friend and colleague Dr. Dirk Bartz unexpectedly passed away on Sunday. We wish his family much strength in these difficult times.

He will be sorely missed.

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By cpbotha, February 26, 2010 19:04

There is still time to submit those great biomedical visual computing application papers that you have lying around!  The VCBM 2010 deadline is not quite upon us yet, so hurry on up.

I hope to see you all in Leipzig at the beginning of July!

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By cpbotha, October 10, 2009 19:25

See this super-smooth multi-touch enabled direct volume rendering for virtual autopsy made by the Interactive Institute and the CMIV in Sweden:

Get more detail by going to the project website.

(thanks to Gerwin for the heads-up!)

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By cpbotha, May 14, 2009 08:12

I would really love one of these to play with!

According to the product page:

Digital Lightbox is a multi-touch display that allows surgeons and physicians to instantly access and manipulate digital medical data through the power of touch.

(Found via MedGadget.)

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By cpbotha, February 26, 2009 17:00

The Bergen MedViz Network is organising a special session on the Analysis and Visualization of Dynamic Images in Medical Applications at the 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA) 2009.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Study of perfusion using MRI, CT, US, or PET
• Motion correction of image time series
• Strain and stress imaging
• Imaging of the beating heart, or the moving kidney
• Tracking of cells, organelles, or proteins in time-lapse images
• Compartment modeling and tracer kinetics in MRI, CT, or PET
• Flow quantification and visualization
• Analysis and visualization of change (e.g. displacement) in repeated image examinations
• Image-based modeling and visualization of dynamic biological processes (e.g. diffusion)

We have good friends and colleagues in the Bergen MedViz network, so this is bound to be good.  Submit your papers!

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By cpbotha, March 9, 2008 00:27

I’m currently at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2008, staffing the Medical Delta booth in the Imagine section (level 2 in the Austria Centre, close to rooms X and Y), together with a number of cool people from the Erasmus Medical Centre Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam and the Leiden University Medical Centre Image Processing Laboratory. If you’re reading this and you’re in the neighbourhood, pop by for a chat and of course some complimentary stroopwafels and drop!

Update:

I’m back at the TU in Delft and the ECR should be finising by this afternoon. Also see the blog summaries of Marion Smits by clicking here, here and here. Below is a photo Marion took of our Medical Delta booth:

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By cpbotha, March 3, 2008 14:23

The Visualization Group at the University of Bergen in Norway currently has a job opening for a 4-year PhD research fellowship in Medical Visualization. The successful candidate will perform his/her PhD research under the supervision of Prof.dr. Helwig Hauser and Dr. Ivan Viola, two internationally respected visualization scientists.

You can apply for this exciting position via the JOBBNORGE website until March 15, 2008.

Click here for the accompanying flyer.

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By cpbotha, September 30, 2007 17:45

I’ve just put together a first attempt at a demo reel show-casing some of the Medical Visualization research being done at the Delft University of Technology (DUT, or TU Delft). Click here to see the YouTube version, or click here to download the higher quality Windows Media version.

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By cpbotha, May 27, 2007 12:05

Siemens has unveiled the world’s first MR-PET scanner prototype. With this imaging system, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) images can be acquired simultaneously. MRI supplies anatomical (structural) information as context, whilst PET yields functional data, for example on the precise location of tumours and their metastases. See the image below for an example (courtesy of Siemens):

This is yet another new example of “native” multi-field medical datasets, and underlines the need for research on techniques that are able to visualise this type of data.

(news via MedGadget)

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By cpbotha, April 25, 2007 13:41

Virtual Colonoscopy with an optical colonoscopy followup, where non-diminutive lesions (< 6mm) are not reported, has been found to be the most cost-effective and safest method for screening. See this MedGadget blog, and this abstract in Cancer for more details.

The TU Delft Visualisation Group is also actively performing research on Virtual Colonoscopy. Our current focus is on automatic polyp detection by using vector field visualisation techniques. Click here for the research project page, or read “L. Zhao, C. P. Botha, J. O. Bescos, R. Truyen, F. M. Vos, and F. H. Post, Lines of curvature for improved diagnosis in virtual colonoscopy, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2006″ (you can find this article on the group publications page).

Update:
Gerwin has just notified us of a new WebMD article also on this virtual colonoscopy study, this time concerning a new article published in the October 4 2007 issue of the NEMJ.