Updates
September 10, 2021 – Lecture dates and course program added. The TUWEL page will be up soon.
Course Structure
The course consists of the following three components:
- Lectures: 6 regular sets of 2 hours + 1 set of invited lectures of 3 hours
- Small assignments: 5 sets
- Final project
Assessment
The course will be assessed on a 0–100 scale, as follows:
- Small assignments: in total 5 (done individually) = 25 points
- Final project: in groups of 2 people = 40 points (implementation, presentation, 2–3 page summary—no official report)
- Exam: 35 points
You need at least 50% of each one of the three components above to pass the course!
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/)
- The zoom links for the lectures will be provided in TUWEL.
- Slides/recordings from the lectures will be published in TUWEL.
- The assignments can be accessed in TUWEL.
- The exact schedule for the invited lectures and the project presentation day will be uploaded later.
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1. Introduction & Basics / Acquisition |
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2. DICOM & Preprocessing |
Assignment 1 |
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3. Segmentation & Registration |
Assignment 2 (Segmentation) 18.10.2021–26.10.2021 |
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4. Surface Rendering—Marching Cubes |
Assignment 3 (Surface Rendering) 25.10.2021–09.11.2021 |
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5. Volume Rendering DVR & TFs |
Assignment 4 (Volume Rendering) 08.11.2021–23.11.2021 (2 weeks) |
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6. Advanced Volume Rendering & Evaluation |
Assignment 5 (TFs) 16.11.2021–23.11.2021 |
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7. Project Get-Together |
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8. Invited Lectures 9.00-9.30: Katarina Furmanova (Masaryk University): Predictive Visual Analytics of Anatomical Variability for Radiotherapy 9.30-10.00: Aleksandr Amirkhanov (TU Wien and CoolIT): Visual Analytics in Dental Aesthetics 10.00-11.00: Barbora Kozlikova (Masaryk University): Visualization of Molecular Structures 11.00-12.00: Tom Torsney and Maria Wimmer (VRVis Research Center): Visualization and analysis of multimodal medical imaging data in practice |
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Final Project Presentations |
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Exam |
Assignments
- The assignments will be published on TUWEL every week before the lecture.
- You will have one-two weeks to submit your results (also on TUWEL).
- The assignments make up 25 points. You need at least half of the points to pass the course.
Final Projects
- The final project will be to implement a visualization application, which solves a simple medical or biological problem.
- You will work on your project during the period 22.11.2021–14.01.2022.
- You will be required to hand in the implemented visualization and a 2–3 page summary of your work.
- The outcome will be presented during a dedicated session at the end of the course on 17.01.2022.
- The project makes up 40 points. You need at least half of the points to pass the course.
- More information about the final projects will be uploaded later and there will be a dedicated session to discuss potential topics (see Lecture 7 in the table above).
Exams
- The plan is to hold a written exam on the 24th of January (location tbd soon). However, should there be any COVID-related implications, we will have to resort to oral exams.
- The exam makes up 35 points. As with all other sub-parts of this course, you need at least half of the points to pass the course.
- The students will have to answer questions based on lectures 1-6,8.