by Monique Meuschke, Samuel Voß, Oliver Beuing, Bernhard Preim, Kai Lawonn
Abstract:
Abstract We present the first visualization tool that enables a comparative depiction of structural stress tensor data for vessel walls of cerebral aneurysms. Such aneurysms bear the risk of rupture, whereas their treatment also carries considerable risks for the patient. Medical researchers emphasize the importance of analyzing the interaction of morphological and hemodynamic information for the patient-specific rupture risk evaluation and treatment analysis. Tensor data such as the stress inside the aneurysm walls characterizes the interplay between the morphology and blood flow and seems to be an important rupture-prone criterion. We use different glyph-based techniques to depict local stress tensors simultaneously and compare their applicability to cerebral aneurysms in a user study. We thus offer medical researchers an effective visual exploration tool to assess the aneurysm rupture risk. We developed a GPU-based implementation of our techniques with a flexible interactive data exploration mechanism. Our depictions are designed in collaboration with domain experts, and we provide details about the evaluation.
Reference:
Glyph-Based Comparative Stress Tensor Visualization in Cerebral Aneurysms (Monique Meuschke, Samuel Voß, Oliver Beuing, Bernhard Preim, Kai Lawonn), In Computer Graphics Forum, volume 36, 2017.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{meuschke_glyph-based_2017,
	title = {Glyph-{Based} {Comparative} {Stress} {Tensor} {Visualization} in {Cerebral} {Aneurysms}},
	volume = {36},
	issn = {1467-8659},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cgf.13171},
	doi = {10.1111/cgf.13171},
	abstract = {Abstract We present the first visualization tool that enables a comparative depiction of structural stress tensor data for vessel walls of cerebral aneurysms. Such aneurysms bear the risk of rupture, whereas their treatment also carries considerable risks for the patient. Medical researchers emphasize the importance of analyzing the interaction of morphological and hemodynamic information for the patient-specific rupture risk evaluation and treatment analysis. Tensor data such as the stress inside the aneurysm walls characterizes the interplay between the morphology and blood flow and seems to be an important rupture-prone criterion. We use different glyph-based techniques to depict local stress tensors simultaneously and compare their applicability to cerebral aneurysms in a user study. We thus offer medical researchers an effective visual exploration tool to assess the aneurysm rupture risk. We developed a GPU-based implementation of our techniques with a flexible interactive data exploration mechanism. Our depictions are designed in collaboration with domain experts, and we provide details about the evaluation.},
	number = {3},
	journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
	author = {Meuschke, Monique and Voß, Samuel and Beuing, Oliver and Preim, Bernhard and Lawonn, Kai},
	year = {2017},
	keywords = {Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS), I.4.9 Computer Graphics: Image Processing and Computer Vision—Applications},
	pages = {99--108}
}