by Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, Monique Meuschke, Mathias Neugebauer, Sylvia Saalfeld, Kai Lawonn, Gabor Janiga, Hans-Christian Hege, Stefan Zachow, Bernhard Preim
Abstract:
Abstract Simulations and measurements of blood and airflow inside the human circulatory and respiratory system play an increasingly important role in personalized medicine for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. This survey focuses on three main application areas. (1) Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of blood flow in cerebral aneurysms assist in predicting the outcome of this pathologic process and of therapeutic interventions. (2) CFD simulations of nasal airflow allow for investigating the effects of obstructions and deformities and provide therapy decision support. (3) 4D phase-contrast (4D PC) magnetic resonance imaging of aortic haemodynamics supports the diagnosis of various vascular and valve pathologies as well as their treatment. An investigation of the complex and often dynamic simulation and measurement data requires the coupling of sophisticated visualization, interaction and data analysis techniques. In this paper, we survey the large body of work that has been conducted within this realm. We extend previous surveys by incorporating nasal airflow, addressing the joint investigation of blood flow and vessel wall properties and providing a more fine-granular taxonomy of the existing techniques. From the survey, we extract major research trends and identify open problems and future challenges. The survey is intended for researchers interested in medical flow but also more general, in the combined visualization of physiology and anatomy, the extraction of features from flow field data and feature-based visualization, the visual comparison of different simulation results and the interactive visual analysis of the flow field and derived characteristics.
Reference:
Generation and Visual Exploration of Medical Flow Data: Survey, Research Trends and Future Challenges (Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, Monique Meuschke, Mathias Neugebauer, Sylvia Saalfeld, Kai Lawonn, Gabor Janiga, Hans-Christian Hege, Stefan Zachow, Bernhard Preim), In Computer Graphics Forum, volume 38, 2019.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{oeltze-jafra_generation_2019,
title = {Generation and {Visual} {Exploration} of {Medical} {Flow} {Data}: {Survey}, {Research} {Trends} and {Future} {Challenges}},
volume = {38},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cgf.13394},
doi = {10.1111/cgf.13394},
abstract = {Abstract Simulations and measurements of blood and airflow inside the human circulatory and respiratory system play an increasingly important role in personalized medicine for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. This survey focuses on three main application areas. (1) Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of blood flow in cerebral aneurysms assist in predicting the outcome of this pathologic process and of therapeutic interventions. (2) CFD simulations of nasal airflow allow for investigating the effects of obstructions and deformities and provide therapy decision support. (3) 4D phase-contrast (4D PC) magnetic resonance imaging of aortic haemodynamics supports the diagnosis of various vascular and valve pathologies as well as their treatment. An investigation of the complex and often dynamic simulation and measurement data requires the coupling of sophisticated visualization, interaction and data analysis techniques. In this paper, we survey the large body of work that has been conducted within this realm. We extend previous surveys by incorporating nasal airflow, addressing the joint investigation of blood flow and vessel wall properties and providing a more fine-granular taxonomy of the existing techniques. From the survey, we extract major research trends and identify open problems and future challenges. The survey is intended for researchers interested in medical flow but also more general, in the combined visualization of physiology and anatomy, the extraction of features from flow field data and feature-based visualization, the visual comparison of different simulation results and the interactive visual analysis of the flow field and derived characteristics.},
number = {1},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
author = {Oeltze-Jafra, Steffen and Meuschke, Monique and Neugebauer, Mathias and Saalfeld, Sylvia and Lawonn, Kai and Janiga, Gabor and Hege, Hans-Christian and Zachow, Stefan and Preim, Bernhard},
year = {2019},
keywords = {4D PC-MRI, airflow visualization, aortic haemodynamics, Applied computing – Life and medical sciences, blood flow visualization, cerebral aneurysm haemodynamics, CFD simulation, Computing methodologies – Modelling and simulation, flow exploration task taxonomy, Human-centred computing – Visualization application domains, medical flow data, nasal aerodynamics},
pages = {87--125}
}