From individual to population: Challenges in Medical Visualization

Since the advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scanners around the early seventies, and the consequent ubiquitousness of medical volume data, medical visualization has undergone significant development and is now a primary branch of Visualization. It finds application in diagnosis, for example virtual colonoscopy, in treatment, for example surgical planning and guidance, and in medical research, for example visualization of diffusion tensor imaging data. Although the field of medical visualization only established itself with this