30-Issue 3

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    Anatomy-Guided Multi-Level Exploration of Blood Flow in Cerebral Aneurysms
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011) Neugebauer, Mathias; Janiga, Gabor; Beuing, Oliver; Skalej, Martin; Preim, Bernhard; H. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijk
    For cerebral aneurysms, the ostium, the area of inflow, is an important anatomic landmark, since it separates the pathological vessel deformation from the healthy parent vessel. A better understanding of the inflow characteristics, the flow inside the aneurysm and the overall change of pre- and post-aneurysm flow in the parent vessel provide insights for medical research and the development of new risk-reduced treatment options. We present an approach for a qualitative, visual flow exploration that incorporates the ostium and derived anatomical landmarks. It is divided into three scopes: a global scope for exploration of the in- and outflow, an ostium scope that provides characteristics of the flow profile close to the ostium and a local scope for a detailed exploration of the flow in the parent vessel and the aneurysm. The approach was applied to five representative datasets, including measured and simulated blood flow. Informal interviews with two board-certified radiologists confirmed the usefulness of the provided exploration tools and delivered input for the integration of the ostium-based flow analysis into the overall exploration workflow.
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    Energy-scale Aware Feature Extraction for Flow Visualization
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011) Pobitzer, A.; Tutkun, M.; Andreassen, Ø.; Fuchs, R.; Peikert, R.; Hauser, H.; H. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijk
    In the visualization of flow simulation data, feature detectors often tend to result in overly rich response, making some sort of filtering or simplification necessary to convey meaningful images. In this paper we present an approach that builds upon a decomposition of the flow field according to dynamical importance of different scales of motion energy. Focusing on the high-energy scales leads to a reduction of the flow field while retaining the underlying physical process. The presented method acknowledges the intrinsic structures of the flow according to its energy and therefore allows to focus on the energetically most interesting aspects of the flow. Our analysis shows that this approach can be used for methods based on both local feature extraction and particle integration and we provide a discussion of the error caused by the approximation. Finally, we illustrate the use of the proposed approach for both a local and a global feature detector and in the context of numerical flow simulations.
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    An Evaluation of Visualization Techniques to Illustrate Statistical Deformation Models
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011) Caban, Jesus J.; Rheingans, Penny; Yoo, T.; H. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijk
    As collections of 2D/3D images continue to grow, interest in effective ways to visualize and explore the statistical morphological properties of a group of images has surged. Recently, deformation models have emerged as simple methods to capture the variability and statistical properties of a collection of images. Such models have proven to be effective in tasks such as image classification, generation, registration, segmentation, and analysis of modes of variation. A crucial element missing from most statistical models has been an effective way to summarize and visualize the statistical morphological properties of a group of images. This paper evaluates different visualization techniques that can be extended and used to illustrate the information captured by such statistical models. First, four illustration techniques are described as methods to summarize the statistical morphological properties as captured by deformation models. Second, results of a user study conducted to compare the effectiveness of each visualization technique are presented. After comparing the performance of 40 subjects, we found that statistical annotation techniques present significant benefits when analyzing the structural properties of a group of images.
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    In-situ Sampling of a Large-Scale Particle Simulation for Interactive Visualization and Analysis
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011) Woodring, Jonathan; Ahrens, J.; Figg, J.; Wendelberger, J.; Habib, S.; Heitmann, K.; H. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijk
    We describe a simulation-time random sampling of a large-scale particle simulation, the RoadRunner Universe MC3 cosmological simulation, for interactive post-analysis and visualization. Simulation data generation rates will continue to be far greater than storage bandwidth rates by many orders of magnitude. This implies that only a very small fraction of data generated by a simulation can ever be stored and subsequently post-analyzed. The limiting factors in this situation are similar to the problem in many population surveys: there aren't enough human resources to query a large population. To cope with the lack of resources, statistical sampling techniques are used to create a representative data set of a large population. Following this analogy, we propose to store a simulationtime random sampling of the particle data for post-analysis, with level-of-detail organization, to cope with the bottlenecks. A sample is stored directly from the simulation in a level-of-detail format for post-visualization and analysis, which amortizes the cost of post-processing and reduces workflow time. Additionally by sampling during the simulation, we are able to analyze the entire particle population to record full population statistics and quantify sample error.
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    Prostate Cancer Visualization from MR Imagery and MR Spectroscopy
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011) Marino, Joseph; Kaufman, Arie; H. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijk
    Prostate cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers among males, and the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been suggested for its detection. A framework is presented for scoring and visualizing various MR data in an efficient and intuitive manner. A classification method is introduced where a cumulative score volume is created which takes into account each of three acquisition types. This score volume is integrated into a volume rendering framework which allows the user to view the prostate gland, the multi-modal score values, and the sur- rounding anatomy. A visibility persistence mode is introduced to automatically avoid full occlusion of a selected score and indicate overlaps. The use of GPU-accelerated multi-modal single-pass ray casting provides an inter- active experience. User driven importance rendering allows the user to gain insight into the data and can assist in localization of the disease and treatment planning. We evaluate our results against pathology and radiologists' determinations.
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    Topology-based Visualization of Transformation Pathways in Complex Chemical Systems
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011) Beketayev, Kenes; Weber, G. H.; Haranczyk, M.; Bremer, P.-T.; Hlawitschka, M.; Hamann, B.; H. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijk
    Studying transformation in a chemical system by considering its energy as a function of coordinates of the system's components provides insight and changes our understanding of this process. Currently, a lack of effective visualization techniques for high-dimensional energy functions limits chemists to plot energy with respect to one or two coordinates at a time. In some complex systems, developing a comprehensive understanding requires new visualization techniques that show relationships between all coordinates at the same time. We propose a new visualization technique that combines concepts from topological analysis, multi-dimensional scaling, and graph layout to enable the analysis of energy functions for a wide range of molecular structures. We demonstrate our technique by studying the energy function of a dimer of formic and acetic acids and a LTA zeolite structure, in which we consider diffusion of methane.
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    Visualization and Analysis of Eddies in a Global Ocean Simulation
    (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011) Williams, S.; Hecht, M.; Petersen, M.; Strelitz, R.; Maltrud, M.; Ahrens, J.; Hlawitschka, M.; Hamann, B.; H. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijk
    We present analysis and visualization of flow data from a high-resolution simulation of the dynamical behavior of the global ocean. Of particular scientific interest are coherent vortical features called mesoscale eddies. We first extract high-vorticity features using a metric from the oceanography community called the Okubo-Weiss parameter. We then use a new circularity criterion to differentiate eddies from other non-eddy features like meanders in strong background currents. From these data, we generate visualizations showing the three-dimensional structure and distribution of ocean eddies. Additionally, the characteristics of each eddy are recorded to form an eddy census that can be used to investigate correlations among variables such as eddy thickness, depth, and location. From these analyses, we gain insight into the role eddies play in large-scale ocean circulation.