Renata Raidou

Function

I am Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Medical Visualization and Visual Analytics at the Research Unit of Computer Graphics of the Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology, at TU Wien, Austria.
For more information, see my personal website.

Research Interests

I investigate and design Visualization and Visual Analytics strategies, which address biological and medical applications. My core interests revolve around the following topics:

Medical Visualization and Visual Analytics, to address the needs of P4 medicine: personalization, predictiveness, preventiveness, and patient participation.
Uncertainty Visualization, e.g., to analyze anatomical variability and its effect on treatments, or to investigate uncertainty in biological models.
Ensemble and Comparative Visualization, e.g., to explore big data from large cohorts of patients, or to analyze models and simulations of biological processes.
(Augmented) Data Physicalization, to fabricate physical objects from the data for the education of the general public or for training (e.g., combined with AR).

Check my personal website if you want to see my full list of publications and other professional activities I am involved in.

Courses

Medical Visualization 1 (Visualisierung medizinischer Daten 1)
Medical Visualization 2 (Visualisierung medizinischer Daten 2)
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
Seminar aus CG
Seminar aus Visualisierung
Computer Animation

Short Bio

I am Assistant Professor in Medical Visualization and Visual Analytics at the Research Unit of Computer Graphics of the Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology, at TU Wien, Austria. Previously, I was Assistant Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics Research Group of the Bernoulli Institute at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Before that, I did a Post-Doc at the Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology, at TU Wien. I received my Ph.D. in Medical Visualization from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2017. The topic of my dissertation was “Visual Analytics for Digital Radiotherapy: Towards a Comprehensible Pipeline”, and for the results of my work, I obtained the Best PhD Award 2018 of the EuroVis Awards Programme. Additionally, I was awarded the Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine (1st Place) at Eurographics 2017. This year, I was awarded the EuroVis Young Researcher Award 2022.

Awards

Best short paper awarded at EG VCBM 2022 (September 2022).
EuroVis Young Researcher Award 2022 awarded at EuroVis 2022 (June 2022).
Best short paper awarded at IEEE Vis 2020 (October 2020).
EG VCBM Certificate of Appreciation awarded at EG VCBM2020 (September 2020).
Image Contest Award (People’s choice) awarded at EG VCBM2019 (September 2019).
Best short paper–Honorable Mention (Eurographics Association) awarded at EuroVis2018 (June 2018).
EuroVis Best PhD Award 2018 (Eurographics Association) awarded at EuroVis2018 (June 2018).
Dirk Bartz Prize 2017 for Visual Computing in Medicine (Eurographics Association)—1st place (April 2017).
Nomination for IEEE VGTC VPG doctoral dissertation award (March 2017).

News

EG VCBM 2022 AWARDS
posted on 30. Sep 2022
Renata Raidou received the EuroVis Young Researcher Award 2022
posted on 28. Jun 2022
Renata Raidou organizes NII Shonan Seminar
posted on 2. Mar 2020
Renata Raidou awarded twice at EuroVis 2018 - 20th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization, 4-8 June 2018 Brno, CZ
posted on 11. Jun 2018
Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine 2017 - EUROGRAPHICS 2017
posted on 3. May 2017

Topics for Projects and Theses

NEW: The Evolution of Vaccination Coverage and Its Impact on Disease Outbreaks
BA, PR; 1 person
NEW: Mapping the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance: Global Trends and Local Hotspots
BA, PR; 1 person
NEW: SLICs: Scatterplot Line Integral Convolutions
DA; 1 person
NEW: Modeling Spatial Progression of LHON in the Anterior Optic Pathway
DA;
Cell/Object tracking using SAMv2
BA, PR, DA; 1-2 persons
Image generation, image synthesis, data augmentation using GANs or diffusion models for brightfield imaging/histopathology
BA, PR, DA; 1-2 persons
Fine-tuning of large-vision-models such as SAM or Dino
BA, PR, DA; 1-2 persons
LLMs and LVMs for interaction with image data
BA, PR, DA; 1-2 persons
ClutterSound: Transforming Dense Scatterplots into Audio Signatures
DA; 1 person
Using LLMs to Modify the Sentiment in Volume Renderings
DA; 1 person
Going Beyond 4D in the Exploration of Dynamical Systems
DA; 1 person
Visualizing Uncertainty in Graphs using Animation
DA; 1 person
Evaluating Node-Link Diagram Layouts in terms of Graph Aesthetic Criteria
DA; 1 person
Externalizing User Trust in Guidance-supported Visual Analytics System
BA, DA;
Network Graphs to Support Sense-making in Uncertainty Visualization
BA, DA;
Student Projects and Master Theses at Siemens Healthineers
BA, PR, DA; 1-3 persons
Edge Crossing Resolution through Iterative Vertex Splitting
PR, DA; 1-2 persons

Research Projects

Health virtual twins for the personalised management of stroke related to atrial fibrillation
Jan 2024 - Dec 2028

Courses in the current semester

Ausgewählte Kapitel der Computergraphik
VU 186.167: TISS
Computeranimation
VU 186.139: Course page | TISS | Hall Of Fame
Literaturseminar für DissertantInnen
SE 193.157: TISS
Project in Visual Computing 1
PR 193.023: Course page | TISS
Project in Visual Computing 2
PR 193.024: Course page | TISS
Projekt Medizinische Informatik
PR 193.025: Course page | TISS
Seminar aus Computergraphik
SE 186.175: Course page | TISS
Seminar aus Medizinischer Informatik
SE 186.848: Course page | TISS
Seminar aus Visualisierung
SE 186.046: Course page | TISS
Visualisierung medizinischer Daten 2
VU 186.138: Course page | TISS

Publications

66 Publications found:

Image	Bib Reference	Publication Type
2024
	Daniel Pahr , Michal Piovarči, Hsiang-Yun Wu , Renata Raidou Squishicalization: Exploring Elastic Volume Physicalization IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics:1-14, December 2024.	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Henry Ehlers , Daniel Pahr , Velitchko Filipov, Hsiang-Yun Wu , Renata Raidou Me! Me! Me! Me! A study and comparison of ego network representations COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS-UK, 125:1-15, December 2024. [paper]	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Inês Lúcio, Renata Raidou , Pedro Rodrigues, Daniel Simões Lopes Your Face, Your Anatomy: Flashcard Lenses Enriched with Knowledge Maps for Anatomy Education In Proceedings 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), pages 495-504. November 2024.	Conference Paper
	Katarína Furmanová, Barbora Kozlikova, Thomas Höllt, Eduard Gröller , Bernhard Preim, Renata Raidou BioMedical Visualization : Past Work, Current Trends, and Open Challenges. Springer Nature, October 2024.	Published Book
	Anna Shilo, Renata Raidou Visual narratives to edutain against misleading visualizations in healthcare COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS-UK, 123, October 2024.	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Daniel Pahr , Henry Ehlers , Hsiang-Yun Wu , Manuela Waldner , Renata Raidou Investigating the Effect of Operation Mode and Manifestation on Physicalizations of Dynamic Processes Computer Graphics Forum, 43(3):e15106, June 2024.	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Áron Samuel Kovács , Pedro Hermosilla-Casajus , Renata Raidou Surface-aware Mesh Texture Synthesis with Pre-trained 2D CNNs Computer Graphics Forum, 43(2), May 2024.	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Henry Ehlers , Diana Marin , Hsiang-Yun Wu , Renata Raidou Visualizing Group Structure in Compound Graphs: The Current State, Lessons Learned, and Outstanding Opportunities In Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1, HUCAPP and IVAPP, pages 697-708. March 2024.	Conference Paper
	Hannah Bayat, Manuela Waldner , Renata Raidou A Workflow to Visually Assess Interobserver Variability in Medical Image Segmentation IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 44(1):86-94, January 2024.	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Maath Musleh , Davide Ceneda, Henry Ehlers , Renata Raidou ConAn: Measuring and Evaluating User Confidence in Visual Data Analysis Under Uncertainty Computer Graphics Forum, 2024.	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Lorenzo Amabili, Eduard Gröller , Renata Raidou Show Me the GIFference! Using data-GIFs as Educational Tools In Computer Science Research Notes: CSRN 3401: WSCG 2024: Proceedings, pages 57-66. 2024.	Conference Paper
	Yuki Tanaka, Angeliki Grammatikaki , Henry Ehlers , Renata Raidou , Eduard Gröller , Takayuki Itoh Visualization of Relationships between Precipitation and River Water Levels In 2024 28th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), pages 58-63. 2024.	Conference Paper
	Inês Lúcio, Bernardo Faria, Renata Raidou , Luis Proença, Carlos Zagalo, José João Mendes, Pedro Rodrigues, Daniel Simões Lopes Knowledge maps as a complementary tool to learn and teach surgical anatomy in virtual reality: A case study in dental implantology In Healthcare Technology Letters. 2024.	Conference Paper
	Áron Samuel Kovács , Pedro Hermosilla, Renata Raidou G-Style: Stylized Gaussian Splatting Computer Graphics Forum, 43(7), 2024.	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Christian Muth, Olivier Morelle, Renata Raidou , Maximilian W.M. Wintergerst, Robert P Finger, Thomas Schultz Exploring Drusen Type and Appearance using Interpretable GANs In VCBM 2024: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine. 2024.	Conference Paper
2023
	Henry Ehlers , Anaïs Villedieu, Renata Raidou , Hsiang-Yun Wu Improving readability of static, straight-line graph drawings: A first look at edge crossing resolution through iterative vertex splitting COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS-UK, 116:448-463, November 2023.	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Marwin Schindler , Aleksandr Amirkhanov, Renata Raidou Smoke Surfaces of 4D Biological Dynamical Systems In VCBM 2023: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, pages 93-97. September 2023.	Conference Paper
	Sarah El-Sherbiny, Jing Ning, Brigitte Hantusch, Lukas Kenner, Renata Raidou Visual Analytics for the Integrated Exploration and Sensemaking of Cancer Cohort Radiogenomics and Clinical Information In VCBM 2023: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, pages 121-133. September 2023.	Conference Paper
	Maath Musleh , Ludvig Paul Muren, Laura Toussaint, Anne Vestergaard, Eduard Gröller , Renata Raidou Uncertainty guidance in proton therapy planning visualization Computers and Graphics, 111:166-179, February 2023. [Graphical Abstract]	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Bernhard Preim, Renata Raidou , Noeska Smit, Kai Lawonn Visualization, Visual Analytics and Virtual Reality in Medicine : State-Of-the-art Techniques and Applications. Elsevier, 2023.	Published Book
2022
	Oliver Stritzel, Renata Raidou Predicting, Analyzing and Communicating Outcomes of COVID-19 Hospitalizations with Medical Images and Clinical Data In Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM2022)., pages 129-133. September 2022.	Conference Paper
	Ádam Böröndy, Katarína Furmanová, Renata Raidou Understanding the impact of statistical and machine learning choices on predictive models for radiotherapy. In Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM2022), pages 65-69. September 2022. [paper]	Conference Paper
	Caroline Magg, Renata Raidou Visual Analytics to Assess Deep Learning Models for Cross-Modal Brain Tumor Segmentation In Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM 2022), pages 111-115. September 2022.	Conference Paper
	Sandra Ortega-Martorell, Patrick Riley, I Olier, Renata Raidou , R Casana-Eslava, M Rea, L Shen, P.J. Lisboa, C Palmieri Breast cancer patient characterisation and visualisation using deep learning and fisher information networks Scientific Reports, 12, August 2022.	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Marwin Schindler , Thorsten Korpitsch, Renata Raidou , Hsiang-Yun Wu Nested Papercrafts for Anatomical and Biological Edutainment Computer Graphics Forum, 41,3:541-553, June 2022.	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Ádam Böröndy, Katarína Furmanová, Renata Raidou Understanding the impact of statistical and machine learning choices on predictive models for radiotherapy In VCBM 2022: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, pages 65-69. 2022. [paper]	Conference Paper
2021
	Lorenzo Amabili, Kuhu Gupta, Renata Raidou A Taxonomy-Driven Model for Designing Educational Games in Visualization IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 41(6):71-79, October 2021. []	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Caroline Magg, Laura Toussaint, Ludvig Paul Muren, Danny Indelicato, Renata Raidou Visual Assessment of Growth Prediction in Brain Structures after Pediatric Radiotherapy In Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM2021)., pages 31-35. September 2021.	Conference Paper
	Daniel Pahr , Hsiang-Yun Wu , Renata Raidou Vologram: An Educational Holographic Sculpture for Volumetric Medical Data Physicalization In Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, pages 19-23. September 2021.	Conference Paper
	Katarína Furmanová, Ludvig Paul Muren, Oscar Casares-Magaz, Vitali Moiseenko, John P. Einck, Sara Pilskog, Renata Raidou PREVIS: Predictive visual analytics of anatomical variability for radiotherapy decision support Computers and Graphics, 97:126-138, April 2021. [paper]	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Hsiang-Yun Wu , Aleksandr Amirkhanov, Nicolas Grossmann, Tobias Klein, David Kouřil, Haichao Miao, Laura R. Luidolt , Peter Mindek, Renata Raidou , Ivan Viola , Manuela Waldner , Eduard Gröller Visualization working group at TU Wien: Visibile Facimus Quod Ceteri Non Possunt Visual Informatics, 5:76-84, March 2021. [paper]	Journal Paper (without talk)
2020
	Renata Raidou , Eduard Gröller , Hsiang-Yun Wu Slice and Dice: A PhysicalizationWorkflow for Anatomical Edutainment Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), x:1-12, October 2020. [example] [image] [paper]	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Katarína Furmanová, Nicolas Grossmann, Ludvig Paul Muren, Oscar Casares-Magaz, Vitali Moiseenko, John P. Einck, Eduard Gröller , Renata Raidou VAPOR: Visual Analytics for the Exploration of Pelvic Organ Variability in Radiotherapy Computer & Graphics, 91:25-38, October 2020.	Journal Paper (without talk)
	Marwin Schindler , Hsiang-Yun Wu , Renata Raidou The Anatomical Edutainer In IEEE Vis Short Papers 2020, pages 1-5. October 2020. [image] [paper preprint]	Conference Paper
	Zoltan Oremus, Kahin Akram Hassan, Jiri Chmelik, Michaela Knazkova, Jan Byska, Renata Raidou , Barbora Kozlikova PINGU Principles of Interactive Navigation for Geospatial Understanding In 2020 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), pages 216-225. June 2020.	Conference Paper
	Renata Raidou , Katarína Furmanová, Nicolas Grossmann, Oscar Casares-Magaz, Vitali Moiseenko, John P. Einck, Eduard Gröller , Ludvig Paul Muren Lessons Learnt from Developing Visual Analytics Applications for Adaptive Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy In The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software (VisGap) (2020), pages 1-8. May 2020.	Conference Paper
	Renata Raidou , Barbora Kozlikova, Johanna Beyer, Timo Ropinski, Issei Fujishiro NII Shonan Meeting Report No. 167: Formalizing Biological and Medical Visualization ISSN 2186-7437	Miscellaneous Publication
	Matthias Schlachter, Bernhard Preim, Katja Bühler , Renata Raidou Principles of Visualization in Radiation Oncology Oncology and Informatics, 1:1-11, January 2020.	Journal Paper (without talk)
2019
	Nicolas Grossmann, Oscar Casares-Magaz, Ludvig Paul Muren, Vitali Moiseenko, John P. Einck, Eduard Gröller , Renata Raidou Pelvis Runner: A Visual Analytics Tool for Pelvic Organ Variability Exploration in Prostate Cancer Cohorts Poster shown at IEEE VIS VAST (20. October 2019-25. October 2019) [poster]	Poster
	Aleksandr Amirkhanov, Ilona Kosiuk, Peter Szmolyan, Artem Amirkhanov, Gabriel Mistelbauer, Eduard Gröller , Renata Raidou ManyLands: A Journey Across 4D Phase Space of Trajectories Computer Graphics Forum, 38(7):191-202, October 2019. [Paper] [Video demo]	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Eric Mörth, Renata Raidou , Ivan Viola , Noeska Natasja Smit The Vitruvian Baby: Interactive Reformation of Fetal Ultrasound Data to a T-Position Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (2019), 9:201-205, September 2019.	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Georg Bernold, Kresimir Matkovic , Eduard Gröller , Renata Raidou preha: Establishing Precision Rehabilitation with Visual Analytics In Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (2019), pages 79-89. September 2019.	Conference Paper
	Nicolas Grossmann, Oscar Casares-Magaz, Ludvig Paul Muren, Vitali Moiseenko, John P. Einck, Eduard Gröller , Renata Raidou Pelvis Runner: Visualizing Pelvic Organ Variability in a Cohort of Radiotherapy Patients In Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (2019), pages 69-78. September 2019.	Conference Paper
	Renata Raidou Visual Analytics for the Representation, Exploration and Analysis of High-Dimensional, Multi-Faceted Medical Data In Biomedical Visualisation, pages 137-162, July 2019	Article in a Book
	Matthias Schlachter, Renata Raidou , Ludvig Paul Muren, Bernhard Preim, Katja Bühler State-of-the-Art Report: Visual Computing in Radiation Therapy Planning Computer Graphics Forum, 3(38):753-779, June 2019.	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Oscar Casares-Magaz, Renata Raidou , NJ Pettersson, Vitali Moiseenko, John P. Einck, A Hopper, R Knopp, Ludvig Paul Muren PO-0962 Bladder changes during first week of RT for prostate cancer determine the risk of urinary toxicity In Radiotherapy and Oncology, pages S522-S523. April 2019.	Conference Paper
	Renata Raidou , Eduard Gröller , Martin Eisemann Relaxing Dense Scatter Plots with Pixel-Based Mappings IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25:1-12, March 2019.	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Aleksandr Amirkhanov, Ilona Kosiuk, Peter Szmolyan, Artem Amirkhanov, Gabriel Mistelbauer, Eduard Gröller , Renata Raidou EG VCBM 2019 Image Contest Award, people's choice—ManyLands: A Journey Across 4D Phase Space of Biological Systems	Unknown Publication
2018
	Nicolas Grossmann, Thomas Köppel, Eduard Gröller , Renata Raidou VisualFlatter - Visual Analysis of Distortions in the Projection of Biomedical Structures Eurographics Proceedings, September 2018.	Journal Paper with Conference Talk
	Oscar Casares-Magaz, Renata Raidou , Jarle Roervik, Anna Vilanova i Bartroli, Ludvig Paul Muren Uncertainty evaluation of image-based tumour control probability models in radiotherapy of prostate cancer using a visual analytic tool Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology, (5), January 2018. [paper]	Journal Paper (without talk)