Bio+MedVis Challenge @ IEEE VIS 2024 – Program

When: Sunday, October 13, 1:30PM - 4:30PM EDT

1:30 - 1:40
Opening
Speakers: Challenge chairs, representatives of BioVis and VCBM steering committees
1:40 - 2:15
Keynote Talk: Three-dimensional 50-color microscopy in cancer patient samples for drug discovery and understanding of disease
Speaker: Clarence Yapp, Director of Microscopy and Image Analysis at the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology (LSP) at Harvard University
2:15 - 2:25
Challenge Introduction
Speakers: Simon Warchol and Eric Mörth

Challenge talks

2:25 - 2:35
A Simplified Positional Cell Type Visualization using Spatially Aggregated Clusters
Authors: Lee Mason and Jonas S Almeida
2:35 - 2:45
TissuePlot: A Multi-Scale Interactive Web App For Visualizing Spatial Data
Authors: Heba Zuhair Sailem
2:45 - 3:15
Coffee break
3:15 - 3:25
Visual Compositional Data Analytics for Spatial Transcriptomics
Authors: David Hägele, Yuxuan Tang, and Daniel Weiskopf
3:25 - 3:35
Droplets: A Marker Design for visually enhancing Local Cluster Association
Authors: Stefan Lengauer, Peter Waldert, Tobias Schreck
3:35 - 3:45
A Part-to-Whole Circular Cell Explorer
Authors: Siyuan Zhao and G Elisabeta Marai
3:45 - 3:55
LLM - Supported Exploration of 3D Microscopy Imaging
Authors: Aarti Darji, Eric Mörth, Morgan L Turner, David Kouřil, Jacob Luber, and Nils Gehlenborg
3:55 - 4:10
Closing and Awards
Speakers: Challenge chairs
4:10 - 4:30
Buzz Session: Informal discussion with the challenge organizers, contributors, keynote speaker, and audience members to discuss potential future extensions of the work and collaboration.