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- Publication Type: Master Thesis
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- Date: December 2014
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Abstract
Today’s neuro-biological research is often based on brains of the Drosophila Melanogaster, the commonly known fruit fly. To study the function of neuronal circuits scientists often have to compare the neuronal structures of a set of different brains. Their aim is to find out how complex behavior is generated. Therefore the scientists at the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna are using a confocal microscope to produce volumetric images of Drosophila brains. Today they have acquired more than 40.000 images and a large amount of additional data.In many cases 3D renderings of these volumetric images are not sufficient to solve certain scientific problems especially when multiple brains have to be considered. Therefore the researchers rely on additional data which is stored in databases. The problem here is that the scientists have two different data sources without a connection between them. On the one hand there are the volumetric images and on the other hand there is the additional data which has certain relations to the brains.
This thesis proposes a software design concept to establish a connection between 3D renderings of volumetric images and additional data by using information visualizations. Highlighting techniques can be introduced to link volume visualizations of the brains to related data visualized by 2D information visualizations. Therefore the implementation of this design concept gets integrated into an existing scientific visualization environment. To evaluate this concept common neuro-biological use cases are introduced and it is described how the implementation of this design concept supports the work flow of the researchers.
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@mastersthesis{Bauer_Johannes_2014_IWB,
title = "Integration of Web-Based Information Visualizations into a
Scientific Visualization Environment",
author = "Johannes Bauer",
year = "2014",
abstract = "Today’s neuro-biological research is often based on brains
of the Drosophila Melanogaster, the commonly known fruit
fly. To study the function of neuronal circuits scientists
often have to compare the neuronal structures of a set of
different brains. Their aim is to find out how complex
behavior is generated. Therefore the scientists at the
Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna are using a
confocal microscope to produce volumetric images of
Drosophila brains. Today they have acquired more than
40.000 images and a large amount of additional data. In
many cases 3D renderings of these volumetric images are not
sufficient to solve certain scientific problems especially
when multiple brains have to be considered. Therefore the
researchers rely on additional data which is stored in
databases. The problem here is that the scientists have two
different data sources without a connection between them. On
the one hand there are the volumetric images and on the
other hand there is the additional data which has certain
relations to the brains. This thesis proposes a software
design concept to establish a connection between 3D
renderings of volumetric images and additional data by using
information visualizations. Highlighting techniques can be
introduced to link volume visualizations of the brains to
related data visualized by 2D information visualizations.
Therefore the implementation of this design concept gets
integrated into an existing scientific visualization
environment. To evaluate this concept common
neuro-biological use cases are introduced and it is
described how the implementation of this design concept
supports the work flow of the researchers.",
month = dec,
address = "Favoritenstrasse 9-11/E193-02, A-1040 Vienna, Austria",
school = "Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna
University of Technology ",
URL = "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2014/Bauer_Johannes_2014_IWB/",
}