Visualization, Visual Analytics and Virtual Reality in Medicine

Bernhard Preim is Professor of Visualization in the Computer Science Department of the U of Magdeburg. He has given many tutorials on medical visualization at IEEE Visualization, Eurographics, EuroVis and Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery. He was founder of the German Visual Computing in Medicine group which has held two yearly workshops since 2003. Together with Charl Botha (Delft), he initiated the Eurographics Workshop series on Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine . Bernhard now heads the VCBM steering committee. Currently, Bernhard and Charl serve as editors for a special issue on Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine in the journal Computers and Graphics . Recently, Bernhard Preim was invited to serve as associate editor of the premium journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Bernhard is regularly Visiting Professor at Fraunhofer MEVIS and heads the scientific advisory board of ICCAS (Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery). In the German Society for Computer-Assisted Surgery he has been board member since 2007 and first Vice-President since 2009. Renata Georgia Raidou received her Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Delft University of Technology. In 2017, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Medical Visualization from Eindhoven University of Technology. For her dissertation, she received the Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine (1st Place) at Eurographics 2017 and the Best PhD Award at EuroVis 2018. Currently, she is a Post-Doc Researcher at the Visualization Group of the Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology at TU Wien, Austria. She is the main organizer of the Shonan workshop Formalizing Biological and Medical Visualization , taking place in February 2020 in Shonan, Japan. In the past, she was a member of the Organizing Committee of EuroVis 2018 and General Co-chair at EG VCBM 2019. Her research is on the interface between Visual Analytics, Image Processing and Machine Learning, with a strong focus on medical applications. Noeska Smit is an Associate Professor in Medical Visualization (tenure track position) at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen, Norway. She is also part-time affiliated to the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization (MMIV) centre as a senior researcher. She is a licensed radiographer with three years of practical experience, and has studied Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She obtained a PhD at the same university on anatomy visualization for medical education and surgical planning. For her Phd thesis she received the Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine (2ndPlace) at Eurographics 2019. Her current research focuses on multi-modal medical imaging data visualization. Kai Lawonn is an assistant professor for visualization at the University of Jena. He studied Mathematics at the Freie, University of Berlin and in 2014 he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Magdeburg (UoM). In 2017, he received a habilitation (venia legendi) at the UoM. For the Phd thesis, he received the Eurographics Best Phd thesis award. He was assistant professor for medical visualization at University Koblenz-Landau from 2015 to 2019. His research interests are illustrative visualizations for medical and biological applications.