Visualization of Cellular and Microvascular Relationships
Mayerich, D.M.
Abbott, L.
Keyser, J.
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX;
This paper appears in: Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Nov.-Dec. 2008
Volume: 14,
Issue: 6
On page(s): 1611-1618
ISSN: 1077-2626
INSPEC Accession Number: 10301223
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.179
Current Version Published: 2008-10-24
Abstract
Understanding the structure of microvasculature structures and their relationship to cells in biological tissue is an important and complex problem. Brain microvasculature in particular is known to play an important role in chronic diseases. However, these networks are only visible at the microscopic level and can span large volumes of tissue. Due to recent advances in microscopy, large volumes of data can be imaged at the resolution necessary to reconstruct these structures. Due to the dense and complex nature of microscopy data sets, it is important to limit the amount of information displayed. In this paper, we describe methods for encoding the unique structure of microvascular data, allowing researchers to selectively explore microvascular anatomy. We also identify the queries most useful to researchers studying microvascular and cellular relationships. By associating cellular structures with our microvascular framework, we allow researchers to explore interesting anatomical relationships in dense and complex data sets.
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