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Uncertainty‐aware Visualization in Medical Imaging ‐ A Survey
Author(s) -
Gillmann Christina,
Saur Dorothee,
Wischgoll Thomas,
Scheuermann Gerik
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/cgf.14333
Subject(s) - visualization , computer science , medical diagnosis , medical imaging , plan (archaeology) , process (computing) , data science , point (geometry) , artificial intelligence , radiology , medicine , history , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , operating system
Medical imaging (image acquisition, image transformation, and image visualization) is a standard tool for clinicians in order to make diagnoses, plan surgeries, or educate students. Each of these steps is affected by uncertainty, which can highly influence the decision‐making process of clinicians. Visualization can help in understanding and communicating these uncertainties. In this manuscript, we aim to summarize the current state‐of‐the‐art in uncertainty‐aware visualization in medical imaging. Our report is based on the steps involved in medical imaging as well as its applications. Requirements are formulated to examine the considered approaches. In addition, this manuscript shows which approaches can be combined to form uncertainty‐aware medical imaging pipelines. Based on our analysis, we are able to point to open problems in uncertainty‐aware medical imaging.