**on leave until Oct/Nov 2023**
I’m a Professor in Medical Visualization (tenure track position funded by the Trond Mohn Foundation), with a background in computer science and as a radiographer. I am also affiliated to the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization (MMIV) centre as a senior researcher and part of the leadership team. Currently, I am researching novel interactive visualization approaches for improved exploration, analysis, and communication of multimodal medical imaging data. The focus of our team in this context is on multi-parametric MR acquisitions.
Teaching:
- Continuously INF219, INF319 Project in Visualization
- Fall semester 2020: INF219 Project in Visualization: new style involving real clients and seminar lectures
- Spring Semester 2019: INF101 Object-oriented Programming
- Fall Semester 2017/2018: INF358 Seminar in Visualization
This page only displays publications I have authored in my current affiliation. For a full overview, please check my Google Scholar profile. For more information, please check my personal website.
Publications
2023
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[Bibtex] @article{wagner2023mri,
title={MRI-based radiomic signatures for pretreatment prognostication in cervical cancer},
author={Wagner-Larsen, Kari S and Hodneland, Erlend and Fasmer, Kristine E and Lura, Nj{\aa}l and Woie, Kathrine and Bertelsen, Bj{\o}rn I and Salvesen, {\O}yvind and Halle, Mari K and Smit, Noeska and Krakstad, Camilla and others},
journal={Cancer Medicine},
volume={12},
number={20},
pages={20251--20265},
year={2023},
publisher={Wiley Online Library},
doi = {10.1002/cam4.6526},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cam4.6526},
images = {images/wagner2023radiomics.PNG},
thumbnails = {images/wagner2023radiomics.PNG},
pdf = {pdfs/wagner2023radiomics.pdf}
} [Bibtex]
@book{preim2023visualization,
title={Visualization, Visual Analytics and Virtual Reality in Medicine: State-of-the-art Techniques and Applications},
author={Preim, Bernhard and Raidou, Renata and Smit, Noeska and Lawonn, Kai},
year={2023},
publisher={Elsevier},
abstract = {Visualization, Visual Analytics and Virtual Reality in Medicine: State-of-the-art Techniques and Applications describes important techniques and applications that show an understanding of actual user needs as well as technological possibilities. The book includes user research, for example, task and requirement analysis, visualization design and algorithmic ideas without going into the details of implementation. This reference will be suitable for researchers and students in visualization and visual analytics in medicine and healthcare, medical image analysis scientists and biomedical engineers in general. Visualization and visual analytics have become prevalent in public health and clinical medicine, medical flow visualization, multimodal medical visualization and virtual reality in medical education and rehabilitation. Relevant applications now include digital pathology, virtual anatomy and computer-assisted radiation treatment planning.},
images = {images/Smit2023book.png},
thumbnails = {images/Smit2023book.png},
project = {ttmedvis},
url = {https://shop.elsevier.com/books/visualization-visual-analytics-and-virtual-reality-in-medicine/preim/978-0-12-822962-0}
}2022
[Bibtex] @inproceedings {EichnerMoerth2022MuSIC,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {Renata G. Raidou and Björn Sommer and Torsten W. Kuhlen and Michael Krone and Thomas Schultz and Hsiang-Yun Wu},
title = {{MuSIC: Multi-Sequential Interactive Co-Registration for Cancer Imaging Data based on Segmentation Masks}},
author = {Eichner, Tanja* and Mörth, Eric* and Wagner-Larsen, Kari S. and Lura, Njål and Haldorsen, Ingfrid S. and Gröller, Eduard and Bruckner, Stefan and Smit, Noeska N.},
note = {Best Paper Honorable Mention at VCBM2022},
project = {ttmedvis},
year = {2022},
abstract = {In gynecologic cancer imaging, multiple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences are acquired per patient to reveal different tissue characteristics. However, after image acquisition, the anatomical structures can be misaligned in the various sequences due to changing patient location in the scanner and organ movements. The co-registration process aims to align the sequences to allow for multi-sequential tumor imaging analysis. However, automatic co-registration often leads to unsatisfying results. To address this problem, we propose the web-based application MuSIC (Multi-Sequential Interactive Co-registration). The approach allows medical experts to co-register multiple sequences simultaneously based on a pre-defined segmentation mask generated for one of the sequences. Our contributions lie in our proposed workflow. First, a shape matching algorithm based on dual annealing searches for the tumor position in each sequence. The user can then interactively adapt the proposed segmentation positions if needed. During this procedure, we include a multi-modal magic lens visualization for visual quality assessment. Then, we register the volumes based on the segmentation mask positions. We allow for both rigid and deformable registration. Finally, we conducted a usability analysis with seven medical and machine learning experts to verify the utility of our approach. Our participants highly appreciate the multi-sequential setup and see themselves using MuSIC in the future.
Best Paper Honorable Mention at VCBM2022},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-177-9},
DOI = {10.2312/vcbm.20221190},
pdf = {pdfs/EichnerMoerth_2022.pdf},
thumbnails = {images/EichnerMoerth_2022.PNG},
images = {images/EichnerMoerth_2022.PNG},
}@inproceedings {Kleinau2022Tornado,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {Renata G. Raidou and Björn Sommer and Torsten W. Kuhlen and Michael Krone and Thomas Schultz and Hsiang-Yun Wu},
title = {{Is there a Tornado in Alex's Blood Flow? A Case Study for Narrative Medical Visualization}},
project = {ttmedvis},
author = {Kleinau, Anna and Stupak, Evgenia and Mörth, Eric and Garrison, Laura A. and Mittenentzwei, Sarah and Smit, Noeska N. and Lawonn, Kai and Bruckner, Stefan and Gutberlet, Matthias and Preim, Bernhard and Meuschke, Monique},
year = {2022},
abstract = {Narrative visualization advantageously combines storytelling with new media formats and techniques, like interactivity, to create improved learning experiences. In medicine, it has the potential to improve patient understanding of diagnostic procedures and treatment options, promote confidence, reduce anxiety, and support informed decision-making. However, limited scientific research has been conducted regarding the use of narrative visualization in medicine. To explore the value of narrative visualization in this domain, we introduce a data-driven story to inform a broad audience about the usage of measured blood flow data to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases. The focus of the story is on blood flow vortices in the aorta, with which imaging technique they are examined, and why they can be dangerous. In an interdisciplinary team, we define the main contents of the story and the resulting design questions. We sketch the iterative design process and implement the story based on two genres. In a between-subject study, we evaluate the suitability and understandability of the story and the influence of different navigation concepts on user experience. Finally, we discuss reusable concepts for further narrative medical visualization projects.},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-177-9},
DOI = {10.2312/vcbm.20221183},
pdf = {pdfs/Kleinau_2022.pdf},
thumbnails = {images/Kleinau_2022.PNG},
images = {images/Kleinau_2022.PNG},
}@article{Meuschke2022narrative,
title = {Narrative medical visualization to communicate disease data},
author = {Meuschke, Monique and Garrison, Laura A. and Smit, Noeska N. and Bach, Benjamin and Mittenentzwei, Sarah and Wei{\ss}, Veronika and Bruckner, Stefan and Lawonn, Kai and Preim, Bernhard},
year = 2022,
journal = {Computers & Graphics},
volume = 107,
pages = {144--157},
doi = {10.1016/j.cag.2022.07.017},
issn = {0097-8493},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009784932200139X},
abstract = {This paper explores narrative techniques combined with medical visualizations to tell data-driven stories about diseases for a general audience. The field of medical illustration uses narrative visualization through hand-crafted techniques to promote health literacy. However, data-driven narrative visualization has rarely been applied to medical data. We derived a template for creating stories about diseases and applied it to three selected diseases to demonstrate how narrative techniques could support visual communication and facilitate understanding of medical data. One of our main considerations is how interactive 3D anatomical models can be integrated into the story and whether this leads to compelling stories in which the users feel involved. A between-subject study with 90 participants suggests that the combination of a carefully designed narrative structure, the constant involvement of a specific patient, high-qualitative visualizations combined with easy-to-use interactions, are critical for an understandable story about diseases that would be remembered by participants.},
pdf = {pdfs/Narrative_medical_MEUSCHKE_DOA18072022_AFV.pdf},
thumbnails = {images/Meuschke2022narrative-thumb.png},
images = {images/Meuschke2022narrative.png},
project = {VIDI}
}@Article{Moerth2022ScrollyVis,
author = {Mörth, Eric and Bruckner, Stefan and Smit, Noeska N.},
title = {ScrollyVis: Interactive visual authoring of guided dynamic narratives for scientific scrollytelling},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
year = {2022},
volume = {},
abstract = {Visual stories are an effective and powerful tool to convey specific information to a diverse public. Scrollytelling is a recent visual storytelling technique extensively used on the web, where content appears or changes as users scroll up or down a page. By employing the familiar gesture of scrolling as its primary interaction mechanism, it provides users with a sense of control, exploration and discoverability while still offering a simple and intuitive interface. In this paper, we present a novel approach for authoring, editing, and presenting data-driven scientific narratives using scrollytelling. Our method flexibly integrates common sources such as images, text, and video, but also supports more specialized visualization techniques such as interactive maps as well as scalar field and mesh data visualizations. We show that scrolling navigation can be used to traverse dynamic narratives and demonstrate how it can be combined with interactive parameter exploration. The resulting system consists of an extensible web-based authoring tool capable of exporting stand-alone stories that can be hosted on any web server. We demonstrate the power and utility of our approach with case studies from several diverse scientific fields and with a user study including 12 participants of diverse professional backgrounds. Furthermore, an expert in creating interactive articles assessed the usefulness of our approach and the quality of the created stories.},
project = {ttmedvis},
pdf = {pdfs/Moerth_2022_ScrollyVis.pdf},
thumbnails = {images/Moerth_2022_ScrollyVis.png},
images = {images/Moerth_2022_ScrollyVis.png},
pages={1-12},
doi={10.1109/TVCG.2022.3205769},
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[Bibtex] @article{Moerth2022ICEVis,
title = {ICEVis: Interactive Clustering Exploration for tumor sub-region analysis in multiparametric cancer imaging},
author = {Mörth, Eric and Eichner, Tanja and Ingfrid, Haldorsen and Bruckner, Stefan and Smit, Noeska N.},
year = 2022,
journal = {Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI'22)},
volume = {15},
pages = {5},
doi = {10.1145/3554944.3554958},
issn = {},
url = {},
abstract = {Tumor tissue characteristics derived from imaging data are gaining importance in clinical research. Tumor sub-regions may play a critical role in defining tumor types and may hold essential information about tumor aggressiveness. Depending on the tumor’s location within the body, such sub-regions can be easily identified and determined by physiology, but these sub-regions are not readily visible to others. Regions within a tumor are currently explored by comparing the image sequences and analyzing the tissue heterogeneity present. To improve the exploration of such tumor sub-regions, we propose a visual analytics tool called ICEVis. ICEVis supports the identification of tumor sub-regions and corresponding features combined with cluster visualizations highlighting cluster validity. It is often difficult to estimate the optimal number of clusters; we provide rich facilities to support this task, incorporating various statistical measures and interactive exploration of the results. We evaluated our tool with three clinical researchers to show the potential of our approach.
Best Short Paper at VINCI2022},
images = "images/Moerth_2022_ICEVis.png",
thumbnails = "images/Moerth_2022_ICEVis.png",
pdf = {pdfs/Moerth_2022_ICEVis.pdf},
vid = {vids/ICEVis.mp4},
project = "ttmedvis",
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[Bibtex] @article{Sugathan2022Longitudinal,
title = {Longitudinal visualization for exploratory analysis of multiple sclerosis lesions},
author = {Sugathan, Sherin and Bartsch, Hauke and Riemer, Frank and Gr{\"u}ner, Renate and Lawonn, Kai and Smit, Noeska},
year = 2022,
journal = {Computers & Graphics},
volume = 107,
pages = {208--219},
doi = {10.1016/j.cag.2022.07.023},
issn = {0097-8493},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0097849322001479},
images = "images/Sugathan-2022-Longitudinal.PNG",
thumbnails = "images/Sugathan-2022-Longitudinal.PNG",
project = {ttmedvis},
youtube = "https://youtu.be/uwcqSf1W-dc"
}