Survey of Glyph-Based Visualization Techniques for Spatial Multivariate Medical Data

Timo Ropinski Ulm University Steffen Oeltze Bernhard Preim Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg

Computers & Graphics, 2011

Abstract

In thissurveyarticle,wereviewglyph-basedvisualizationtechniquesthathavebeenexploitedwhen visualizingspatialmultivariatemedicaldata.Toclassifythesetechniques,wederiveataxonomyof glyph propertiesthatisbasedonclassificationconceptsestablishedininformationvisualization. Consideringboththeglyphvisualizationaswellastheinteractiontechniquesthatareemployedto generateorexploretheglyphvisualization,weareabletoclassifyglyphtechniquesintotwomain groups: thosesupportingpre-attentiveandthosesupportingattentiveprocessing.Withrespecttothis classification,wereviewglyph-basedtechniquesdescribedinthemedicalvisualizationliterature. Based ontheoutcomeoftheliteraturereview,weproposedesignguidelinesforglyphvisualizationsin the medicaldomain.

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@article{ropinski2011survey,
	title={Survey of Glyph-Based Visualization Techniques for Spatial Multivariate Medical Data},
	author={Ropinski, Timo and Oeltze, Steffen and Preim, Bernhard},
	year={2011},
	journal={Computers & Graphics},
	volume={35},
	pages={392--401},
	issue={2},
	doi={10.1016/j.cag.2011.01.011}
}