Visualization technology is becoming increasingly important for medical and biomedical data processing and analysis. The interaction between visualization and medicine is one of the fastest expanding fields, both scientifically and commercially. This book discusses some of the latest visualization techniques and systems for effective analysis of such diverse, large, complex, and multi-source data.

Part I Surface Extraction Methods from Medical Imaging Data- Towards Automatic Generation of 3D Models of Biological Objects Based on Serial Sections

Vincent Jasper Dercksen, Cornelia Brüß, Detlev Stalling, Sabine Gubatz, Udo Seiffert, Hans-Christian Hege
A Topological Approach to Quantitation of Rheumatoid Arthritis. - Hamish Carr, John Ryan, Maria Joyce, Oliver Fitzgerald, Douglas Veale, Robin Gibney, Patrick Brennan
3D Visualization of Vasculature: An Overview. - Bernhard Preim, Steffen Oeltze
3D Surface Reconstruction from Endoscopic Videos. - Arie Kaufman, Jianning Wang. - Part II Geometry Processing in Medical Applications- A Framework for the Visualization of Cross Sectional Data in Biomedical Research. - Enrico Kienel, Marek Vanco, Guido Brunnett, Thomas Kowalski, Roland Clauß, Wolfgang Knabe
Towards a Virtual Echocardiographic Tutoring System. - Gerd Reis, Bernd Lappe, Sascha Köhn, Christopher Weber, Martin Bertram, Hans Hagen. - Supporting Depth and Motion Perception in Medical Volume Data. - Jennis Meyer-Spradow, Timo Ropinski, Klaus Hinrichs
Part III Visualization of Multi-channel Medical Imaging Data- Multimodal Image Registration for Efficient Multi-resolution Visualization. - Joerg Meyer
A User-friendly Tool for Semi-automated Segmentation and Surface Extraction from Color Volume Data Using Geometric Feature-space Operations. - Tetyana Ivanovska, Lars Linsen. - Part IV Vector and Tensor Visualization in Medical Applications- Global Illumination of White Matter Fibers from DT-MRI Data. - David C. Banks, Carl-Fredrik Westin. - Direct Glyph-based Visualization of Diffusion MR Data Using Deformed Spheres.-Martin Domin, Sönke Langner, Norbert Hosten, Lars Linsen. - Visual Analysis of Bioelectric Fields. - Xavier Tricoche, Rob MacLeod, Chris R. Johnson
MRI-based visualisation of orbital fat deformation during eye motion. - Charl P. Botha, Thijs de Graaf, Sander Schutte, Ronald Root, Piotr Wielopolski, Frans C.T. van der Helm, Huibert J. Simonsz, Frits H. Post
Part V Visualizing Molecular Structures - Visual Analysis of Biomolecular Surfaces. - Vijay Natarajan, Patrice Koehl, Yusu Wang, Bernd Hamann
BioBrowser Visualization of and Access to Macro-Molecular Structures. - Lars Offen, Dieter Fellner
Visualization of Barrier Tree Sequences Revisited. - Christian Heine, Gerik Scheuermann, Christoph Flamm, Ivo L. Hofacker, Peter F. Stadler
Part VI Visualizing Gene Expression Data- Interactive Visualization of Gene Regulatory Networks with Associated Gene Expression Time Series Data. - Michel A. Westenberg, Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum, Andrzej T. Lulko, Oscar P. Kuipers, Jos B. T. M. Roerdink. - Segmenting Gene Expression Patterns of Early-stage Drosophila Embryos. - Min-Yu Huang, Oliver Rübel, Gunther H. Weber, Cris L. Luengo Hendriks, Mark D. Biggin, Hans Hagen, Bernd Hamann.