Publications

Books, Book chapters

Thomas Wischgoll: Closed Streamlines in Flow Visualization, Ph.D. Thesis, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2002, ISBN-3-925178-96-1. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann: 3D Loop Detection and Visualization in Vector Fields, Visualization and Mathematics III, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2003, pp. 151-160, ISBN-3-540-01295-8. [PDF]

Gerik Scheuermann, Wolfgang Kollmann, Xavier Tricoche, Thomas Wischgoll: Evolution of Topology in Axi-Symmetric and 3-D Viscous Flows, Numerical Simulations of Incompressible Flows, M.M. Hafez (ed.), World Scientif, New Jersey, NJ, USA, 2003, pp. 622-643, ISBN-981- 238-317-4. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Jörg Meyer: Topological Features in Vector Fields, Scientific Visualization: The Visual Extraction of Knowledge from Data, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005, pp. 287-302, ISBN-3-540-26066-8. [PDF]

Jörg Meyer, Thomas Wischgoll: Earthquake Visualization Using Large-scale Ground Motion and Structural Response Simulations, Scientific Visualization: The Visual Extraction of Knowledge from Data, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005, pp. 409-432, ISBN-3-540-26066-8. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Jörg Meyer: Locating Closed Hyperstreamlines in Second Order Tensor Fields, in Visualization and Image Processing of Tensor Fields, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, J. Weickert and H. Hagen (editors), 2005, pp. 257-267, ISBN-3-540-25032-8. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Computing Center-Lines: An Application of Vector Field Topology, in Topology-Based Methods in Visualization II, H.-C. Hege, K. Polthier, G. Scheuermann (editors), 2008, pp. 177-190, ISBN-978-3-540-88605-1. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Daniel R. Einstein, Andrew P. Kuprat, Xiangmin Jiao, Ghassan S. Kassab: Vascular Geometry Reconstruction and Grid Generation, in Computational Cardiovascular Mechanics - Modeling and Applications in Heart Failure, Julius Matteo Guccione, Ghassan S. Kassab, Mark Ratcliffe (editors), 2009, pp. 103-119, ISBN-978-1-4419-0729-5. [PDF]

Journal publications

Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann: Detection and Visualization of Planar Closed Streamlines, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, June 2001, pp. 165-172. [PDF]

Xavier Tricoche, Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen: Topology Tracking for the Visualization of Time-Dependent Two-Dimensional Flows, Computer and Graphics, Elsevier, New York, 2002, pp. 249-258. [PDF]

Elke Moritz, Thomas Wischgoll, Jörg Meyer: Comparison of Input Devices and Displays for Protein Visualization, ACM Crossroads 12.2: Human-Computer Interaction, 2005, pp. 19-26. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Joerg Meyer, Benjamin Kaimovitz, Yoram Lanir, Ghassan S. Kassab: A Novel Method for Visualization of Entire Coronary Arterial Tree, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Volume 35, Number 5, 2007, pp. 694-710. [PDF]

Yunlong Huo, Thomas Wischgoll, Ghassan S. Kassab: Flow Patterns in Three-Dimensional Porcine Epicardial Coronary Arterial Tree, Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 293(5): H2959-H2970, 2007. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Jenny S. Choy, Erik Ritman, Ghassan S. Kassab: Validation of Image-Based Extraction Method for Morphometry of Coronary Arteries, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Volume 36, Number 3, 2008, pp. 356-368. [PDF]

Yunlong Huo, Benjamin Kaimovitz, Yoram Lanir, Thomas Wischgoll, Julien I.E. Hoffman. Ghassan S. Kassab: Biophysical Model of Spatial Heterogeneity of Myocardial Flow, Biophysical Journal, Volume 96, Number 10, 2009, pp. 4035-4043. [PDF]

Christopher Koehler, Thomas Wischgoll, Forouzan Golshani: 3-D Reconstruction of the Human Ribcage Based on Chest X-Ray Images and Geometric Template Models, IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 46-53, 2010. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Jenny S. Choy, Ghassan S. Kassab: Extraction of Morphometry and Branching Angles of Porcine Coronary Arterial Tree from CT-Images, American Journal of Physiology - Heart & Circulatory Physiology, 297(5): H1949-1955, 2009. [PDF]

Christopher Koehler, Thomas Wischgoll: Knowledge Based 3D Reconstruction and Visualization of Human Ribcage and Lungs, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 30, Number 1, 2010, pp. 17-29. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Modeling and Visualization of Cardiovascular Systems, Dagstuhl Follow-Ups, Vol. 1, 2010, pp. 210-226 [PDF]

Christopher Koehler, Thomas Wischgoll: 3D Reconstruction of Human Ribcage and Lungs and Improved Visualization of Lung X-ray Images Through Removal of the Ribcage, Dagstuhl Follow-Ups, Vol. 2, 2011, pp. 176-187. [PDF]

Christopher Koehler, Thomas Wischgoll, Haibo Dong, Zachary Gaston, Vortex Visualization in Ultra Low Reynolds Number Insect Flight, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2011, pp. 2071-2079. [PDF]

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Gerik Scheuermann, Thomas Wischgoll, Hans Hagen: Visualization of Temporal Distances, Late Breaking Hot Topics of IEEE Symposium on Visualization 1999, San Francisco, California, 1999, pp. 43-46. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen: Parallel Detection of Closed Streamlines in Planar Flows, International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, M. H. Hamza (ed.), ACTA Press, Anaheim, 2001, pp. 84-88. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen: Tracking Closed Streamlines in Time-Dependent Planar Flows, Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2001, AKA/IOS Press, Berlin/Amsterdam, Germany/Netherlands, 2001, pp. 447-454. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen: Distributed Computation of Planar Closed Streamlines, IS&T/SPIE's Electronic Imaging Visualization and Data Analysis 2002, San Jose, 2002, pp. 238-245. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Closed Streamlines in Flow Visualization, GI GraphikTag 2002, Saarland University/GI, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2002, pp 3-12. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann: Locating Closed Streamlines in 3D Vector Fields, Joint Eurographics and IEEE TCVG Symposium on Data Visualization 2002, Barcelona, Spain, 2002, pp. 227-232. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann: Parallel Computation of the Topological Skeleton of Vector Fields, High Performance Computing (HPC 2003) Symposium, Orlando, Florida, 2003, pp. 139-144. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Tara C. Hutchinson, Falko Küster: Optical (Camera-Based) Technology for Seismic Risk Assessment, 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Washington, D.C., 2003, pp. 49-56. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, Jörg Meyer: Navigational Aspects of an Interactive 3D Exploration System for Cardiovascular Structures, International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2005), Benidorm, Spain, 2005, pp. 721-726. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, Jörg Meyer: A Quantitative Analysis Tool for Cardiovascular Systems, International Conference on Biomechanics (BioMech 2005), Benidorm, Spain, 2005, pp. 121-126. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Computing Center-Lines: An Application of Vector Field Topology, Topological Methods in Visualization 2007, Leipzig, Germany, 2007, pp. 167-178. [PDF]

Tobias Salzbrunn, Heike Jänicke, Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann: The State of the Art in Flow Visualization: Structure-Based Techniques, SimVis 2008, Magdeburg, Germany, 2008, pp. 74-91. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: A Low-Cost, Linux-Based Virtual Environment for Visualizing Vascular Structures, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5358, 2008, pp. 1028-1039. [PDF]

Conference publications

Gerik Scheuermann, Wolfgang Kollmann, Xavier Tricoche, Thomas Wischgoll: Evolution of Topology in Axi-Symmetric and 3-D Viscous Flows, Proceedings of the Halfmoon Bay Conference 2001, British Columbia, Canada, 2002. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Topological Features in Vector Fields, Dagstuhl Seminar 03231 Scientific Visualization: "Extracting Information and Knowledge from Scientific Data Sets", Dagstuhl, Germany, 2003. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Locating Closed Hyperstreamlines in Second Order Tensor Fields, Dagstuhl Seminar 04172 Perspectives Workshop: "Visualization and Image Processing of Tensor Fields", Dagstuhl, Germany, 2004, page 12. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, Jörg Meyer: The Vasculature of the Heart: An Interactive Guided Tour, SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, California, 2004. [PDF]

Elke Moritz, Thomas Wischgoll, Jörg Meyer: Virtual Exploration of a Cardiovascular System, The Fifth University of California Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, Irvine, California, 2004. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, Jörg Meyer: Force-Feedback-Enhanced Navigation for Interactive Visualization of Coronary Vessels, IEEE Visualization 2004 Conference, Austin, Texas, 2004, pp. 137-138. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Jög Meyer, Benny Kaimovitz, Yoram Lanir, Ghassan S. Kassab: Visualizing very Large-scale Vascular Structures Interactively, Experimental Biology 2005 & XXXV International Congress of Physiological Sciences, San Diego, California, 2005. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll Jörg Meyer: Fly Through A Pig's Heart: An Educational Computer Game, ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, Washington, D.C., 2005. [PDF]

Jörg Meyer, Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz: Integrated Visualization and Analysis of a Pig's Cardiovascular System, Dagstuhl Seminar 05231 Perspectives Workshop: "Visualization and Image Processing of Tensor Fields", Dagstuhl, Germany, 2005. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll Jörg Meyer: The Interior of a Pig's Heart: A Museum Exhibit, The Sixth University of California Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA, 2005, page 74. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll Jörg Meyer: Virtual Exploration of Geometrical Reconstructions of Cardiovascular Structures, SIGGRAPH, 2005, Los Angeles, California, 2005. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Topological Methods in Visualization 2005 SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Phoenix, AZ, 2005, page 43. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Quantitative Analysis of CT-scanned Images of Coronary Vasculature of Porcine Hearts, 5th World Congress on Biomechanics, Journal of Biomechanics, special issue, Munich, Germany, 2006. [PDF]

Chandrashekara Hassan Raju, Thomas Wischgoll: Analysis of large scale image data using out-of-core techniques, ASME 2nd Annual Dayton Engineering Science Symposium (DESS),2006. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Modeling and Simulation of Cardiovascular Systems, Dagstuhl Seminar 07291, Seminar "Scientific Visualization", Dagstuhl, Germany, 2007. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Visualizing Morphometric Data of Vasculatures, Knowledge Assisted Visualization (KAV) 2007, co-located with IEEE Visualization 2007, Sacramento, CA, 2007. [PDF]

Elke Moritz, Hans Hagen, Thomas Wischgoll, Jörg Meyer: Usability of multiple degree-of-freedom input devices and virtual reality displays for interactive visual data analysis, Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology, Newport Beach, CA, 2007, pp. 243--244. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Christopher Koehler: Reconstruction of the Upper Torso Using X-Ray Imagery, Dagstuhl Seminar 09251, Seminar "Scientific Visualization", Dagstuhl, Germany, 2009, page 353. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Accurate Extraction of Morphological Information from Volumetric Imagery, 2009 SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, San Francisco, CA, 2009, page 37. [PDF]

Alexander Wiebel, Christoph Garth, Mario Hlawitschka, Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann: FAnToM - Lessons Learned from Design, Implementation, Administration, and Use of a Visualization System for Over 10 Years, Refactoring Visualization from Experience (ReVisE) 2009, co-located with IEEE Visualization 2009, Atlantic City, NJ, 2009. [PDF]

Christopher Koehler, Thomas Wischgoll, Haibo Dong, Zachary Gaston, Hui Wan: 3D Reconstruction and Visualization of a Hovering Dragonfly, 5th Annual Dayton Engineering Sciences Symposium, Dayton, OH, 2009, page 9. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Three-dimensional Stereoscopic Exploration System for the Heart, Midwestern Conference on Health Games, Indianapolis, IN, 2010. [PDF]

Rhonda J. Vickery, Thomas Wischgoll, Christopher Koehler, Matthew Picket, Neal Eikenberry, Lance Harris, Richard Snyder, Darius Sanders, Haibo Dong, Randall Hand, Hugh Thornbug, Vortex Dectection and Visualization for Design of Micro Air Vehicles and Turbomachinery , Dod High Performance Computing Modernization Program, 21st Users Group Conference, May 2011. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll, Multi-field Visualization for Biomedical Data Sets, Scientific Visualizatin, Dagstuhl Seminar 11231, page 22, 2011. [PDF]

Invited talks

Thomas Wischgoll: High Speed Capturing in the Area of Earthquake Research, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2003. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Locating Closed Hyperstreamlines in Second Order Tensor Fields, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2004. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Validation Techniques for Vascular Modeling, Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A) Technical Working Group (TWG) Workshop #20, Dugway Proving Grounds Conference Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 2005. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Visualization and Modeling in Biomedical Applications, The Wallace-Kettering Neuroscience Institute, Kettering, OH, 2006. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Visualization and Analysis of CT Data in Cardiovascular Research, Sonderkolloqium of the Department of Computer Science and the International Graduate School, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2007. [PDF]

Thomas Wischgoll: Stereoscopic Display Technology for Visualizing Vascular Structures, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2009. [PDF]

Demos

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, Jörg Meyer, Quantitative Analysis of Blood Flow in a Cardiovascular System, IEEE Visualization 2003, Interactive Demo Labs, Seattle, Washington, 2003.

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, Jörg Meyer, Force-Feedback-Enhanced Navigation for Interactive Visualization of Coronary Vessels, IEEE Visualization 2004, Interactive Demo Labs, Austin, Texas, 2004.

Exhibits

Fly Through A Pig's Heart: Discovery Science Center, 2500 N. Main St., Santa Ana, CA 92705, February 11-22, 2005.