This course page describes the lecture of Wintersemester 2020/2021. See list of other semesters.

Updates

December 15, 2020 - Added oral exam dates and information.

September 29, 2020 - For the lectures, zoom links are added.

September 28, 2020 - The lecture dates are final. The first lecture will be through Zoom. Zoom links of scheduled lectures will be added soon.

September 18, 2020 - Lecture dates and time slots are added.

Course Structure

The course consists of the following components:

  • Lectures: 7 regular sets of 2 hours + 1 set of invited lectures of 3 hours
  • Practicals: 6 sets of 2 hours
  • Final Projects

Assessment

The course will be assessed as follows:

  • Assignments: in total 5, done during the practicals = 30% of the final grade
  • Final Project: in groups of 2-3 people = 35% of the final grade (implementation, presentation, 1–2 page summary—no official report)
  • Exam: 35% of the final grade

You need a passing grade (50%) for each one of the three components above!

Schedule and Material

  • The course will be structured based on the book of B. Preim and C.P. Botha "Visual Computing for Medicine" (2nd ed.) (http://medvisbook.com/)
  • Slides from the lectures will be published in TUWEL.
  • The practical exercises + assignments can be accessed in TUWEL.
  • The exact schedule for the invited lectures and the project presentation day will be uploaded later.
Lectures Practicals

1. Introduction & Basics / Acquisition
Chapter 1–3 in Preim’s book
Monday 5.10.2020, 10:00–12:00
Zoom:
https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/97526742346?pwd=ZEVjNHV4bCsvQ3hrUWRwamtIbktYZz09

 

2. DICOM & Preprocessing
Chapter 2.3, 4.1–4.2 in Preim’s book
Monday 19.10.2020, 10:00–12:00
Zoom: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/97526742346?pwd=ZEVjNHV4bCsvQ3hrUWRwamtIbktYZz09

Practical 0 (Acquisition and Preprocessing)
19.10.2020–9.11.2020

3. Segmentation & Registration
Chapter 4.1–4.4 in Preim’s book
Monday 9.11.2020, 10:00–12:00
Zoom: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/97526742346?pwd=ZEVjNHV4bCsvQ3hrUWRwamtIbktYZz09

Practical 1 (Segmentation)
9.11.2020–16.11.2020

4. Surface Rendering—Marching Cubes
Chapter 6 in Preim’s book
Monday 16.11.2020, 10:00–12:00
Zoom:
https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/97526742346?pwd=ZEVjNHV4bCsvQ3hrUWRwamtIbktYZz09

Practical 2 (Surface Rendering)
16.11.2020–23.11.2020

5. Project Get-Together
Monday 23.11.2020, 10:00–12:00
Zoom:
https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/97526742346?pwd=ZEVjNHV4bCsvQ3hrUWRwamtIbktYZz09

Practical 3 (Web-Based MedVis)
23.11.2020–30.11.2020

6. Volume Rendering DVR & TFs
Chapter 7,9 in Preim’s book
Monday 30.11.2020, 10:00–12:00
Zoom:
https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/97526742346?pwd=ZEVjNHV4bCsvQ3hrUWRwamtIbktYZz09

Practical 4 (DVR)
30.11.2020–7.12.2020

7. Advanced Volume Rendering & Evaluation
Chapter 8,5 in Preim’s book
Monday 7.12.2020, 10:00–12:00
Zoom:
https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/97526742346?pwd=ZEVjNHV4bCsvQ3hrUWRwamtIbktYZz09

Practical 5 (TFs)
7.12.2020–11.01.2021

8. Invited Lectures
Monday 11.01.2021, 9:00–12:00

Speaker 1: Denis Declara (Brainlab)
Speaker 2: Tobias Klein
Speaker 3: Florian Ganglberger (VRVis)

Zoom: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/95848620028?pwd=c1pjSTNOOWpteW8xWVptRlIxMWJUZz09

 

Final Project Presentations
Monday 18.1.2021, 9:00–12:00
Zoom: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/97526742346?pwd=ZEVjNHV4bCsvQ3hrUWRwamtIbktYZz…

 

Oral Exams

Tuesday, 19.1.2021, 13:00-15:00
Thursday, 21.1.2021, 13:00-15:00
Monday, 25.1.2021, 10:00-12:00

 

Final Projects

The final project will be to implement a visualization application, which solves a simple medical or biological problem. You will be required to hand in the implemented visualization and a 1–2 page summary of your work. The outcome will be presented during a dedicated session at the end of the course. More information about the final projects will be uploaded later.

Oral Exams

This year we will be holding online oral exams at the end of January (see dates above). Please register using TUWEL. The exam will take 15 minutes and makes up 35% of your final grade. As with all other sub-parts of this course, you need at least 50% on the exam to pass the course. Each student will have to answer two questions, based on lectures 1-8 (including the invited talks).