Visualization of time dependent confocal microscopy data

Author

De Leeuw, Wim C. ; Van Liere, Robert ; Verschure, P.J. ; Visser, A.E. ; Manders, E.M.M. ; Van Driel, Roel

Author_Institution

Centre for Math. & Comput. Sci., Amsterdam, Netherlands

fYear

2000

fDate

13-13 Oct. 2000

Firstpage

473

Lastpage

476

Abstract

The microscopic analysis of time dependent 3D live cells provides considerable challenges to visualization. Effective visualization can provide insight into the structure and functioning of living cells. The paper presents a case study in which a number of visualization techniques were applied to analyze a specific problem in cell biology: the condensation and de-condensation of chromosomes during cell division. The spatial complexity of the data required sophisticated presentation techniques. The interactive virtual reality enabled visualization system, proteus, specially equipped for time dependent 3D data sets is described. An important feature of proteus is that it is extendible to cope with application-specific demands.

Keywords

biology computing; cellular biophysics; data visualisation; living systems; microscopy; virtual reality; application-specific demands; case study; cell biology; cell division; chromosomes; interactive virtual reality enabled visualization system; living cells; microscopic analysis; presentation techniques; proteus; spatial complexity; time dependent 3D data sets; time dependent 3D live cells; time dependent confocal microscopy data visualization; visualization techniques; Biological cells; Cells (biology); Computer graphics; DNA; Data visualization; Fluorescence; Gene expression; Labeling; Microscopy; Proteins;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization 2000. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6478-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.2000.885735

Filename

885735