Time-varying Volume Visualization for Medical Applications

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "Time-varying Volume Visualization for Medical Applications"

Mr. Ming-Yuen Chan


Abstract:

With the rapid advance in the medical imaging and acquisition
technologies, high resolution 3D images become available in clinical
environment and efficient analysis on such volume data in huge number and
size becomes an important issue to be addressed. Medical visualization
suggests a possible solution for clinicians to perform visual analysis.
Various techniques have been proposed to facilitate the visualization
process and the ultimate goal is to help viewers interactively explore the
data and gain useful insight. Nowadays, more and more dynamic image
modalities (e.g., fMRI, Dynamic SPECT) have been developed for medical
applications, we are not only dealing with the static volume data but also
more complicated time-varying data with features changing over time. This
introduces various challenging research problems to effective medical
visualization. We will discuss the related research issues on time-varying
volume visualization for medical purposes and give a comprehensive survey
on the previous work. Several possible research directions are also
covered.


Date:     		Friday, 16 May 2008

Time:                   2:00p.m.-4:00p.m.

Venue:                  Room 3402
			lifts 17-18

Committee Members:      Dr. Huamin Qu (Supervisor)
			Dr. Chiew-Lan Tai (Chairperson)
			Dr. Albert Chung
			Dr. Pedro Sander


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