November 2007

• The Medvis Group receives the "Best Application Paper" Award at the IEEE Visualization 2007 for the paper "High-Quality Multimodal Volume Rendering for Preoperative Planning of Neurosurgical Interventions"

October 2007

• The Medvis Group will present the paper "High-Quality Multimodal Volume Rendering for Preoperative Planning of Neurosurgical Interventions" at the IEEE Visualization 2007 in Sacramento, USA.

March 2007

• The Medvis Group will present a method for direct deformation and visualization of volume data at the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP) in Barcelona.
  
  
• A poster on fast and segmentation-free 3D visualization of the brain on basis of MRI data will be presented at this years "Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin" in Munich.

February 2007

• Invited Talk @ Biomedical Image Analysis Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, on Visualization Techniques for Neurosurgical Applications

November 2006

• Joint paper with Balázs Csébfalvi from the Computer Graphics Research Group, Technical University of Budapest on Prefiltered B-Spline Reconstruction for Hardware-Accelerated Rendering of Optimally Sampled Volumetric Data published at the 11th International Fall Workshop Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV).

October 2006

• VRVis Medvis Group @ MICCAI 2006: Presentation of a new robust segmentation algorithms for the left ventricle in 4D MRI data: Improving Segmentation of the Left Ventricle using a Two-Component Statistical Model
  
  
• Results of the VRsquared project "GPU-Based High-Quality Volume Rendering For Virtual Environments" published and presented at the International Workshop on Augmented Environments for Medical Imaging and Computer Aided Surgery (AMI-ARCS) in Copenhagen.
  
  
• A group of medical computer science students and professors from the University Heidelberg and Heilbronn visit Medvis Group at VRVis.

September 2006

• New application areas for VRVis High Quality Volume Rendering Framework: The new media agency DMC01 and the Medical Visualization Group start joint project supported by the ZIT05plus program Innovationssupport.
  
  
• Our research on GPU-Accelerated Deep Shadow Maps for Direct Volume Rendering has been published and presented @ Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Graphics Hardware Workshop in Vienna.
  
  
• Tutorial on Real Time Volume Graphics with Markus Hadwiger @ Eurographics 2006, Vienna

June 2006

• Cooperation with the  Austrian Foundry Research Institute (ÖGI) expanded: FFG PROKIS project on Capabilities and Limitations of Technical Computed Tomography (Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der technischen Computertomographie) granted.

May 2006

• New cooperation with Yxlon International  in the area non-destructive testing with industrial computed tomography started.
  
  
• MedvisGroup presents paper on rendering techniques for virtual endoscopy applications at Eurovis/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2006 in Lissabon:
  Perspective Isosurface and Direct Volume Rendering for Virtual Endoscopy Applications Henning Scharsach, Markus Hadwiger, André Neubauer, Stefan Wolfsberger, Katja Bühler. Proceedings of Eurovis/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2006

April 2006

• Laura Fritz wins two awards for the paper
  Diffusion-Based Applications for Interactive Medical Image Segmentation
  and her presentation at the student conference CESCG.

February 2006

• VRVis Medical Visualization Group starts scientific cooperation with Mevis Bremen.

January 2006

• Start of the FFG prokis-Querschnittstechnologie project ComTom: The Medvis Group becomes cooperation partner of the Austrian Foundry Research Institute (ÖGI).

December 2005

• December 8th: Report on Virtual Christmas Trees and the VRVis Virtual Endoscopy Tool in German TV!
  Bayerischer Rundfunk, Faszination Wissen "Der durchleuchtete Weihnachtsbaum - Wie ein Jux die Medizin revolutionierte"
  VRVis and the Institute for Computer Graphics and Algorithms present their research results.

November 2005

• AGFA presents research results of VRVis at RSNA2005 in Chicago
  
  
• VRVis Forum by the Medical Visualization Group with two invited talks:
  • Dr. Gudrun Wagenknecht, Multimodal Image Processing Group, Central Institute for Electronics, ResearchCenter Jülich,  Germany talked on "Individual 3D Brain Atlases: Algorithms and Applications"
  • Dr. Stefan Wolfsberger and Dr. Markus Donat, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University Vienna presented "3D Visualisierung für die Neurochirurgie"

October 2005

• The Medvis Group presents together with researchers from the Technical University Vienna, University of Magdeburg, University of Calgary, Purdue University, and the Ohio State University a Tutorial on Illustrative Visualization at the IEEE Visualization Conference in Minneapolis, USA.
  

September 2005

• September 30th: ORF TV Report on Virtual Endoscopy System STEPS in Modern Times

• Neurosurgeons of the Medical University Vienna and the Medical Visualization Group of VRVis win Best Poster Award at CURAC 2005 for the Poster

Wolfsberger, S.; Donat, M.; Neubauer, A.; Bühler, K.; Czech, T. and Knosp, E.
Virtuelle Endoskopie in der transsphenoidalen Hypophysenchirurgie
CURAC Jahrestagung 2005, Berlin

August 2005

• VRVis Medical Visualization Group presents research results
  at Eurographics 2005 in Dublin and the British Machine Vision Conference in Oxford.
  
  
• Researchers from  Vienna University of Technology. the University of Magdeburg,
  Purdue University and the VRVis Medical Visualization Group present a tutorial on
  Illustrative Visualization at Eurographics 2005.