The book discusses novel visualization techniques driven by the needs in medicine and life
sciences as well as new application areas and challenges for visualization within these fields.
It presents ideas and concepts for visual analysis of data from scientific studies of living
organs or to the delivery of healthcare. Target scientific domains include the entire field of
biology at all scales - from genes and proteins to organs and populations - as well as
interdisciplinary research based on technological advances such as bioinformatics biomedicine
biochemistry or biophysics. Moreover they comprise the field of medicine and the application
of science and technology to healthcare problems. This book does not only present basic
research pushing the state of the art in the field of visualization but it also documents the
impact in the fields of medicine and life sciences.
