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This survey reviews visualization, interaction, and data analysis techniques for medical flow data, focusing on cerebral aneurysms, nasal airflow, and aortic hemodynamics to identify future challenges.
This survey provides a comprehensive overview of visualization and data analysis techniques for medical flow data, highlighting trends and future challenges in the field.
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Survey synthesizes visualization techniques for aneurysm, nasal, and aortic flows; leaves open clinical validation and standardization.
Simulations and measurements of blood and airflow inside the human circulatory and respiratory system play an increasingly important role in personalized medicine for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. This survey focuses on three main application areas. (1) Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of blood flow in cerebral aneurysms assist in predicting the outcome of this pathologic process and of therapeutic interventions. (2) CFD simulations of nasal airflow allow for investigating the effects of obstructions and deformities and provide therapy decision support. (3) 4D phase‐contrast (4D PC) magnetic resonance imaging of aortic haemodynamics supports the diagnosis of various vascular and valve pathologies as well as their treatment. An investigation of the complex and often dynamic simulation and measurement data requires the coupling of sophisticated visualization, interaction and data analysis techniques. In this paper, we survey the large body of work that has been conducted within this realm. We extend previous surveys by incorporating nasal airflow, addressing the joint investigation of blood flow and vessel wall properties and providing a more fine‐granular taxonomy of the existing techniques. From the survey, we extract major research trends and identify open problems and future challenges. The survey is intended for researchers interested in medical flow but also more general, in the combined visualization of physiology and anatomy, the extraction of features from flow field data and feature‐based visualization, the visual comparison of different simulation results and the interactive visual analysis of the flow field and derived characteristics.
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Oeltze‐Jafra et al. (2018) conducted a review in Medical flow data (cerebral aneurysms, nasal airflow, aortic hemodynamics). Visual exploration of medical flow data was evaluated. This survey reviews visualization, interaction, and data analysis techniques for medical flow data, focusing on cerebral aneurysms, nasal airflow, and aortic hemodynamics to identify future challenges.
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