Speaker: Johannes Bauer (ICGA)
Today's neuro-biological research is often based on volumetric images of brains of the drosophila melanogaster. Neuroscientists often have to compare or find similarities between a set of different images. In many cases the visualization of these images is not sufficient to solve a certain problem. Therefore the researchers rely on additional data which is stored in databases. The problem here is that the scientists have two data sources but no direct connection between them.
The connection can be established by using information visualizations. By using certain linking techniques within a multi-view user interface the information visualizations can be connected to the volume visualizations. This thesis introduces a software design concept which can be used to extend an existing scientific visualization environment by 2D data visualizations. To evaluate this concept common scientific use cases are described and how the implementation of this design concept can be used to support the work of the researchers.