Ontology-based visualization of hierarchical neuroanatomical structures

  • Authors:
  • A. Kuß;S. Prohaska;B. Meyer;J. Rybak;H.-C. Hege

  • Affiliations:
  • Zuse Institute Berlin;Zuse Institute Berlin;Zuse Institute Berlin;Institut für Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin;Zuse Institute Berlin

  • Venue:
  • EG VCBM'08 Proceedings of the First Eurographics conference on Visual Computing for Biomedicine
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This work presents a method for generating intuitive visualizations for high-level user queries to an hierarchical surface-based neuroanatomical atlas. We combine a spreading activation approach for computing focus and context in an ontology with a specific level-of-detail strategy for hierarchical structures. We demonstrate our method on an atlas of the bee brain.