title: Visualization methods for data analysis and planning in medical applications.
abstract: Time plays an important role in medicine, both the past and the future. The medical history of a patient represents the past, which needs to be understood by the physician to make the right decisions. The past contains two different kinds of information: measured data (such as blood pressure) and incidents (such as seizures). Planning therapies, on the other hand, requires looking into the future to a certain extent. Visual representations exist for both the past and the future, and they are very useful for getting a better understanding of data or a plan. This paper surveys visualization techniques for both data analysis and planning, and compares them based on a number of criteria.
authors.affiliation: VRVis Research Center, Vienna, Austria. rkosara@asgaard.tuwein.ac.at
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kosara
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miksch
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003626:Data Display; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D014584:User-Computer Interface