Introduction

We developed facilities to create medical animations for intervention planning as well as for educational purposes. We developed a data independent script language to separate animation scripts from imaging data. Our scripting facilities are adaptive and allow to reuse one script to create animations for many different patients where the same anatomic structures and their spatial relations should be visualized. Decomposition rules map abstract high-level instructions to low-level instructions. We designed an object classification and assigned visualization parameters to each category to make the scripting process more effective. We also discuss the enhancement of interactive explorations with animations generated on the fly. In particular, the automated emphasis of objects benefits from appropriate animations.

For more information read our publications or have a look at our example page.

Viewpoint selection for intervention planning


Overview page on our work on viewpoint selection techniques ...


Examples and script instructions

We present some of the animations created with our animation facilities on this page. You can also find sample script instructions.


Publications

 Konrad Mühler, Christian Hansen, Mathias Neugebauer, Bernhard Preim.
Automatische Kamerapositionierung für intra-operative Visualisierungen in der onkologischen Leberchirurgie.
In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin (BVM 2008), p. 143-147, 2008.

Konrad Mühler, Matthias Neugebauer, Christian Tietjen, Bernhard Preim.
Viewpoint Selection for Intervention Planning.
In IEEE/Eurographics Symposium on Visualization, Eurographics, 2007.

Mathias Neugebauer, Konrad Mühler, Christian Tietjen, Bernhard Preim.
Automatische Kamerapositionierung in komplexen medizinischen 3D-Visualisierungen.
In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, Informatik aktuell, pages 318-322. Springer, 2007.

 Konrad Mühler, Ragnar Bade, Bernhard Preim.
Adaptive script based animations for intervention planning.
In Proc. of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 984-991. Springer, 2006.

Konrad Mühler, Ragnar Bade, Bernhard Preim.
Adaptive script based animations for medical education and intervention planning.
Technical Report, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, 2006

Konrad Mühler, Ragnar Bade, Bernhard Preim.
Skriptbasierte Animationen fuer die Operationsplanung und Ausbildung.
In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2006 (BVM 2006), 2006.

Ragnar Bade, Konrad Mühler, Bernhard Preim, Karl Oldhafer, Christian Hillert:
Animation und interaktive Visualisierung patientenspezifischer Daten in einer Lernumgebung für die Planung von Leberoperationen.
4. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie e. V.(CURAC), 2005

Master's thesis
Konrad Mühler.
Skriptbasierte Generierung von Animationen für die medizinische Aus- und Weiterbildung. Master's thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, 2005.


Contact

Konrad Mühler
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Institut für Simulation und Graphik
Universitätsplatz 2
D-39106 Magdeburg
Tel.: +49-391-67 11431
Fax: +49-391-67 11164
E-Mail: muehler@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de