A toolkit for visualizing biomedical data sets

  • Authors:
  • Burkhard C. Wünsche

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australasia and South East Asia
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Medical data sets now comprise a diverse range of measurements such as tissue densities, sensitivity to magnetization, blood flow velocity, and material strain. The size and complexity of medical data sets makes it increasingly difficult to understand, compare, analyze and communicate the data. Visualization is an attempt to simplify these tasks according to the motto "An image says more than a thousand words". Representing complex material properties, such as strain, as a single image improves the perception of features and pattern in the data, enables the recognition of relationship between different measures and facilitates the navigation through and interaction with complex and disparate sets of data.This paper introduces a toolkit developed for exploring complex biomedical data sets. The contributions of this paper are threefold: we suggest a modular design which facilitates the comparison and exploration of multiple data sets and visualization. We introduce a novel field data structure which allows interactive creation of new fields and we present boolean filters as a universal visualization tool.