Ontology-Based Visualization of Hierarchical Neuroanatomical Structures [article]

Anja Kuß, Steffen Prohaska, Björn Meyer, Jürgen Rybak, Hans-Christian Hege
2008 Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine  
This work presents a method for generating intuitive visualizations for high-level user queries to an hierarchical surface-based neuroanatomical atlas. We combine a spreading activation approach for computing focus and context in an ontology with a specific level-of-detail strategy for hierarchical structures. We demonstrate our method on an atlas of the bee brain.
doi:10.2312/vcbm/vcbm08/177-184 fatcat:g4n73wqmuzdmflnddmkxy24jti