This week the TU Delft in the Netherlands will host two medical visualization events in a single week:

• First up, on Thursday December 11th, we will have a special medical visualization colloquium (open to the public). This colloquium will feature two invited speakers, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Preim and Prof.dr. Jos Roerdink, presenting recent work on ‘Visual Analytics in Cohort Study Data’ and ‘Prediction of Neurodegenerative Diseases’. More information about the colloquium and the abstracts for the talks are available here.
• Secondly, on Friday December 12th, Peter Kok and Stef Busking will be defending their PhD theses. Peter Kok will present and defend his work entitled ‘Integrative Visualization of Whole Body Molecular Imaging Data‘ starting at 9.30 am in the TU Delft Aula. Afterwards, at 12:00 pm Stef Busking will present and defend his work entitled ‘Visualization of Variation and Variability‘ in the same location.

The theses that will be defended next week. Picture courtesy of Charl Botha.