Full Program

Tuesday
September 15
Wednesday
September 16
Thursday
September 17
Friday
September 18
09:00
Bio+Med+Vis
Summerschool


Keynote

Paper Session 4
AI Interpretability, Interaction & Storytelling
09:30
10:00
MedVis & BioVis Workshop
Coffee
10:30
Paper Session 1
Molecules, Genes & Neurons

Industry Talk
Siemens
11:00
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Lunch
Keynote
12:30
13:00
Paper Session 2
Anatomy, Meshes & Surgical Planning
Closing
13:30 Lunch
14:00 Lunch and Registration
14:30 Coffee
15:00 Welcome & Awards
Paper Session 3
Multimodal Systems & Biosignals
15:30
Keynote
16:00
16:30
Poster & Demo Session
with
Welcome Reception
17:00
17:30
18:00
18:30
19:00
Conference Dinner

Tuesday, September 15

09:00 – 16:00 • Bio+Med+Vis Summerschool

Room • TBA

 

Wednesday, September 16

10:00 – 14:00 • MedVis & BioVis Workshop

Room • TBA

15:30 – 16:30 • Keynote – Rok Romih

Visualisation of Multimodal Microscopy Datasets for Resolving Urinary Bladder Function

16:30 onwards • Poster & Demo Session with Welcome Reception

Interactive Visualization of Dynamic Functional Connectivity in the ABIDE Autism Dataset 📄 PDF
Daniel Eliad, Sjir J.C. Schielen, Albert P. Aldenkamp, Danny Ruijters, Svitlana Zinger

Effective Guidance in Immersive, Simulation-based Ophthalmology Education 📄 PDF
Mariia Zaitseva, Doğukan Zal, Peter Walter, Torsten Kuhlen, Tim Gerrits

MindJourneys: An Interactive Narrative Visualization of Depression Case Reports 📄 PDF
Dhruvi Gaurav Swadia, Nivedita Kowlagi, Bernhard Preim, Monique Meuschke

 

Thursday, September 17

09:00 – 10:00 • Keynote – Sophia Ulonska

Interactive Visual Computing Tools for Multi-Modal Brain Data Exploration

10:30 – 12:00 • Paper Session 1 – Molecules, Genes & Neurons

Chair: TBA

ConGAT: Context-Aware Graph Attention Visual Analysis for 3D Region of Interest Discovery in Multiplexed Microscopy Images
Hossein Fathollahian, Siyuan Zhao, Nafiul Nipu, Marziye Salahshour, Lei Duan, Wei Tang, Saeed Boorboor, Elisabeta Marai

MultiPASE: Shape-Aware Comparative 3D Genome Analysis
Md Nafiul Alam Nipu, Graham Johnson, Cullen Roth, David Rogers, Shawn Starkenburg, Christina Steadman, Elisabeta Marai

Exploring Genes in the Brain Through Multimodal Views Driven by Disorder Ontologies
Benedikt Kantz, Mattia Veronese, Alessio Giacomel, Ivelina Nikolova, Gianmaria Silvello, Peter Waldert, Stefan Lengauer, Tobias Schreck

Interactive 3D Exploration of Large-Scale Neuronal Network Simulations with a Graph Lens
Peter Waldert, Benedikt Kantz, Gaia Tussardi, Stefan Lengauer, Tobias Schreck

An End-to-end Framework for Quantifying the Exploratory Behavior of Multicolumnar Neurons in Drosophila
Blaž Brence, Sajjad Khawari, Maria Ahmed, Daniel Baum

13:00 – 14:30 • Paper Session 2 – Anatomy, Meshes & Surgical Planning

Chair: TBA

Accurate Triangle Meshes of Biological Membranes Through Ridge Surface Reconstruction
Nicolas Klenert, Patricia Loba-Gómez, Leiss Abdal Al, Juan Diego Gallego Nicolás, Harold Phelippeau, Rachida Seghiri, Antonio Martinez-Sanchez, Daniel Baum

Reconstruction of 3D Whole Heart Mesh from 2D Cardiac Images
Lisa Bautz, Stine Hoffmann, Johanna Brosig, Markus Hüllebrand, Franziska Seidel, Anja Hennemuth

Vessel-straightening-based Registration for Aortic Flow Comparison
Aaron Schroeder, Anja Horvat, Kai Ostendorf, Kathrin Bäumler, Domenico Mastrodicasa, Nina Kerschbaumer, Dominik Fleischmann, Bernhard Preim, Gabriel Mistelbauer

Formalizing Structured Comparative Reporting for Hemodynamic Assessment in LAAO Planning
Jasna Nuhic, Monique Meuschke, Oscar Camara

Coupled Visualization-Quantification Pipeline for Time-Resolved Cement Injection Imaging: A Case Study
Isha Sharma, Jan-Sören Lennart Völter, Dominic Gehweiler, Oliver Röhrle, Dieter Schmalstieg

15:00 – 16:30 • Paper Session 3 – Multimodal Systems & Biosignals

Chair: TBA

MIA: A Visual Analytics System for Multimodal Spectral Imaging Data
Hennes Rave, Katharina Kronenberg, Hannes Gödde, Lea Tobergte, Michael Holtkamp, Julia Werner, Peter Bohrer, Fabian Lohöfer, Rickmer Braren, David Clases, Uwe Karst, Lars Linsen

BeLOVE X-Talker: Interactive Heart-Brain Cross-Talk Explorer
Markus Huellebrand, Ann Philine Laube, Huma Fatima Ali, Joachim Weber, Ira Magdalena Rohrpasser-Napierkowski, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Kersten Villringer, Anja Hennemuth

GutBrainViz: Interactive Exploration of Linked ICA Components across Brain Networks and Gut Microbiota
Casper van Leeuwen

EEGlass: A Fully Interpretable EEG Dementia Screening Assistant
Peter Waldert, Michael Grabner, Lukas Schilcher, Niklas Tscheppe, Gaia Tussardi, Benedikt Kantz, Stefan Lengauer, Tobias Schreck

Voidlytics for Leveraging Informative Missingness in the Study of Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Hanna Balaka, Ke Er Zhang, Marta Czinkoczky, Marc Vaudel, Helwig Hauser, Laura Garrison

19:00 • Conference Dinner

The VCBM 2026 conference dinner will take place at Gostilna na Gradu, located at Ljubljana Castle.

 

Friday, September 18

09:00 – 10:30 • Paper Session 4 – AI Interpretability, Interaction & Storytelling

Chair: TBA

LabTiles: A Small-Multiples Approach for Patient-Centered Blood Test Visualization
Tabea Grellmann, Bernhard Preim, Monique Meuschke

Whose Story Is It? Exploring Roles and Character Representation in Narrative Medical Visualization
Sophie Mlitzke, Janine Zöllner, Bernhard Preim, Monique Meuschke

Revealing Learned Medical Image Segmentation Strategies through Interactive Feature Map Ablation in CNNs
Annika Christina Mikliss, Elena Zimmermann, Thomas Schultz

Ordinal Deep Learning for Knee Effusion Grading in 3D MRI with Noisy Labels
Michal Jaroš, Martin Ropjak, Viktor Sisik, Lukáš Hudec, Peter Bluska, Zuzana Cernekova, Zuzana Berger Haladová

RGB-Based 2.5D Gesture Interaction with Volumetric Medical Data on an Autostereoscopic Display
Lisa Mueller, Bernhard Preim, Sebastian Krueger

10:30 – 11:30 • Industry Talk

Siemens

Speaker • TBA

Talk • TBA

12:00 – 13:00 • Keynote – Thomas Höllt

From Cellular Composition to Tissue Organization: Visual Analytics for Single-Cell and Spatial Data