Bio+MedVis Challenge @ IEEE VIS 2024 – Program

When: Sunday, October 13, 12:00PM - 3:00PM EDT

12:00 - 12:10
Opening
Speakers: Challenge chairs, representatives of BioVis and VCBM steering committees
12:10 - 12:45
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
12:45 - 12:55
Challenge Introduction
Speakers: Simon Warchol and Eric Mörth

Challenge talks

12:55 - 1:05
A Simplified Positional Cell Type Visualization using Spatially Aggregated Clusters
Authors: Lee Mason and Jonas S Almeida
1:05 - 1:15
TissuePlot: A Multi-Scale Interactive Web App For Visualizing Spatial Data
Authors: Heba Zuhair Sailem
1:15 - 1:45
Coffee break
1:45 - 1:55
Visual Compositional Data Analytics for Spatial Transcriptomics
Authors: David Hägele, Yuxuan Tang, and Daniel Weiskopf
1:55 - 2:05
Droplets: A Marker Design for visually enhancing Local Cluster Association
Authors: Stefan Lengauer, Peter Waldert, Tobias Schreck
2:05 - 2:15
A Part-to-Whole Circular Cell Explorer
Authors: Siyuan Zhao and G Elisabeta Marai
2:15 - 2:25
LLM - Supported Exploration of 3D Microscopy Imaging
Authors: Aarti Darji, Eric Mörth, Morgan L Turner, David Kouřil, Jacob Luber, and Nils Gehlenborg
2:25 - 2:40
Closing and Awards
Speakers: Challenge chairs
2:40 - 3:00
Buzz Session: Informal discussion with the challenge organizers, contributors, keynote speaker, and audience members to discuss potential future extensions of the work and collaboration.