Dipl. Ing. (FH) Johanna Beyer Junior Researcher AR3/PR3 Medical Visualization e-mail:  beyer@vrvis.at phone:  (+43-1) 20501 30703 fax:       (+43-1) 20501 30900

• GPU-based Volume Rendering
• Medical Visualization

• Preoperative Planning for Neurosurgical Interventions
• Smooth Mixed-Resolution GPU-Based Raycasting

• 2000-2004 Study of Medical Software Engineering, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria.
• Spring 2004 Master Thesis at Simpleware, Exeter, UK
• 2004 - 2005 Research Assistant at the Medical Visualization Group at VRVis, Vienna
• 2005 - 2008 Junior Researcher at the Medical Visualization Group at VRVis, Vienna
• since 2008 Researcher at the Visualization Group at VRVis, Vienna
• 03/2009 - 07/2009 Research Fellow, Initiative on Innovative Computing, Harvard University

Papers:

• Jeong, W.-K.; Beyer, J.; Hadwiger, M.; Vasquez, A.; Pfister, H., Whitaker, R.; Scalable and Interactive Segmentation and Visualization of Neural Processes in EM Datasets; IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 15(6) (Proceedings IEEE Visualization 2009); to appear, 2009.


• Beyer, J.; Hadwiger, M.; Möller, T.; Fritz, L.; Smooth Mixed-Resolution GPU Volume Rendering; In Proceedings of IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume and Point-Based Graphics; pp. 163-170, 2008.


• Beyer, J.; Hadwiger, M.; Wolfsberger, S.; Bühler, K.; High-Quality Multimodal Volume Rendering for Preoperative Planning of Neurosurgical Interventions; IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6) (Proceedings IEEE Visualization 2007); pp. 1696-1703, 2007. (Best Application Paper Award)


• Beyer, J.; Langer, C.; Fritz, L.; Hadwiger, M.; Wolfsberger, S.; Bühler, K.;Interactive Diffusion Based Smoothing and Segmentation of Volumetric Datasets on Graphics Hardware; Methods of Information in Medicine 2007; pp. 270-274, 2007.


• Beyer, J.; Hadwiger, M.; Wolfsberger, S.; Resk-Salama, Chr.; Bühler, K.; Segmentierungsfreie Visualisierung des Gehirns für direktes Volumen Rendering; Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2007; pp. 333-337, 2007.

Abstracts:

• Wolfsberger S.; Beyer J.; Hadwiger M.; Czech T.; Bühler K.; Knosp E.; 3D Visualization for Preoperative Planning of Approaches to the Sella; 8th Congress of the European Skuall Base Society, 2007.