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Exploration of 4D MRI Blood Flow using Stylistic Visualization

R.F.P. van Pelt, Javier Olivan Bescos, Marcel Breeuwer, R.E. Clough, Meister Eduard Groeller, B.M. ter Haar Romeny, and Anna Vilanova

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Insight into the dynamics of blood-flow considerably improves the understanding of the complex cardiovascular system and its pathologies. Advances in MRI technology enable acquisition of 4D blood-flow data, providing quantitative blood-flow velocities over time. The currently typical slice-by-slice analysis requires a full mental reconstruction of the unsteady blood-flow field, which is a tedious and highly challenging task, even for skilled physicians. We endeavor to alleviate this task by means of comprehensive visualization and interaction techniques. In this paper we present a framework for pre-clinical cardiovascular research, providing tools to both interactively explore the 4D blood-flow data and depict the essential blood-flow characteristics. The framework encompasses a variety of visualization styles, comprising illustrative techniques as well as improved methods from the established field of flow visualization. Each of the incorporated styles, including exploded planar reformats, flow-direction highlights, and arrow-trails, locally captures the blood-flow dynamics and may be initiated by an interactively probed vessel cross-section. Additionally, we present the results of an evaluation with domain experts, measuring the value of each of the visualization styles and related rendering parameters.

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R.F.P. van Pelt, Javier Olivan Bescos, Marcel Breeuwer, R.E. Clough, Meister Eduard Groeller, B.M. ter Haar Romeny, and Anna Vilanova, Exploration of 4D MRI Blood Flow using Stylistic Visualization, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16, pp. 1339–1347, 2010.

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@article{bib:van pelt:2010,
    author       = { van Pelt, R.F.P. and Bescos, Javier Olivan and Breeuwer, Marcel and Clough, R.E. and Groeller, Meister Eduard and ter Haar Romeny, B.M. and Vilanova, Anna },    
    title        = { Exploration of 4D MRI Blood Flow using Stylistic Visualization },
    journal      = { IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics },
    volume       = { 16 },
    year         = { 2010 },
    pages        = { 1339--1347 },
    doi          = { 10.1109/TVCG.2010.153 },
    dblp         = { journals/tvcg/PeltBBCGRV10 },
    url          = { https://publications.graphics.tudelft.nl/papers/567 },
}