Hanspeter Pfister
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`School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
`Harvard University
`150 Western Ave, SciEng 4.303
`Allston, MA 02134
`Tel: (617) 496-8269
`pfister@seas.harvard.edu
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`6 Pioneer Rd.
`Arlington, MA 02474
`(781) 648-2708
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`Education
`(cid:5) State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
`Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1996
`Advisor: Prof. Arie Kaufman; Thesis: Architectures for Real-Time Volume Visualization
`(cid:5) State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
`M.Sc. in Computer Science, 1994
`(cid:5) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Z¨urich, Switzerland
`M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1991
`Research Interests
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`Computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, and data science.
`Employment
`(cid:5) Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA
`Academic Dean for Computational Sciences and Engineering, 2021–present
`An Wang Professor of Computer Science, 2012–present
`Affiliate Faculty Member, Harvard Center for Brain Science, 2012–present
`Director, Institute of Applied Computational Science, 2013–2017
`Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, 2007–2011
`(cid:5) Harvard University, Initiative in Innovative Computing, Cambridge, MA
`Director of Visual Computing, 2007–2009
`(cid:5) Consultant
`Expert witness in patent infringement and patent reexamination cases, source code copyright
`infringement, computer graphics hardware, computer graphics, computer vision, and other
`issues, 2007–present
`Consultant for technology companies and research laboratories, 2007–present
`(cid:5) Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA
`Associate Director, 2001–2006
`Senior Research Scientist, 1996–2007
`(cid:5) Visualization Laboratory, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
`Research Assistant, 1992–1996
`(cid:5) Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Z¨urich, Switzerland
`Research Assistant, 1990–1991
`(cid:5) Sulzer Corp., Industrial Electronics Laboratory, Winterthur, Switzerland
`Consulting Engineer, 1988–1991
`Honors and Awards
`(cid:5) ACM Fellow “for contributions to volume rendering, visualization, computer graphics, and
`computer vision applications,” elected in 2019
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`(cid:5) IEEE Fellow “for contributions to computer vision applications,” elected in 2023
`(cid:5) ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, elected member, 2020
`(cid:5) IEEE Visualization Academy, elected member, 2019
`(cid:5) IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award “in recognition of seminal technical
`achievements in real-time volume rendering,” 2010
`(cid:5) IEEE Golden Core Award, 2010
`(cid:5) IEEE Meritorious Service Award, 2009
`(cid:5) Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Award, Harvard Extension School, 2009
`(cid:5) Dean’s Thesis Prize, Harvard Extension School ALM in Information Technology, for Michael
`Tracey Zellman’s thesis “Creating and Visualizing Congressional Districts”, 2011
`(cid:5) Dean’s Thesis Prize, Harvard Extension School ALM in Information Technology, for Manish
`Kumar’s thesis “View-Dependent FTLV”, 2009
`(cid:5) Dean’s Thesis Prize, Harvard Extension School ALM in Information Technology, for Joseph
`Weber’s thesis “ProteinShader: Cartoon-Type Visualization of Macromolecules Using Pro-
`grammable Graphics Cards”, 2007
`(cid:5) Dean’s Thesis Prize, Harvard Extension School ALM in Information Technology, for George
`P. Stathis’ thesis “Aspect-Oriented Shade Trees”, 2005
`(cid:5) Distinguished Teaching Performance, Harvard Extension School, 2002, 2003, and 2004
`(cid:5) Mitsubishi Electric President’s Award, 2000
`(cid:5) Innovation Awards and Top 100 Products Award for VolumePro, 1999
`(cid:5) The Jack Heller Award for Outstanding Contribution to the CS Department, SUNY Stony
`Brook, 1994
`(cid:5) Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences Fellowship, 1992
`(cid:5) ABB Switzerland Research Fellowship, 1991 and 1992
`(cid:5) U.S. Government Fulbright Scholarship, 1991–1996
`Peer-Reviewed Publications
`(cid:5) ACM SIGGRAPH
`1. Selective Region-based Photo Color Adjustment for Graphic Designs
`N. Zhao, Q. Zheng, J. Liao, Y. Cao, H. Pfister, R. WH Lau, ACM Transactions on Graphics
`(Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 40, no. 4, 2021.
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`2. PhotoApp: Photorealistic Appearance Editing of Head Portraits
`B.R. Mallikarjun, A. Tewari, A. Dib, T. Weyrich, B. Bickel, H-P Seidel, H. Pfister,
`W. Matusik, L. Chevallier, M. Elgharib, C. Theobalt, ACM Transactions on Graphics
`(Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 40, no. 4, 2021.
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`3. An Interaction-Aware, Perceptual Model for Non-Linear Elastic Objects
`M. Piovar˘ci, D. Levin, J. Rebello, D. Chen, R. ˘Durikovi˘c, H. Pfister, W. Matusik, P.
`Didyk, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 35, no. 4, 2016.
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`4. Generalizing Wave Gestures from Sparse Examples for Real-Time Character Control
`H. Rhodin, J. Tompkin, K. In Kim, E. De Aguiar, H. Pfister, H-P Seidel, C. Theobalt,
`ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 34, no. 6, 2015.
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`5. Blind Video Temporal Consistency
`N. Bonneel, J. Tompkin, K. Sunkavalli, D. Sun, S. Paris, H. Pfister, ACM Transactions
`on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 34, no. 6, 2015.
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`6. Computational Design of Metallophone Contact Sounds
`G. Bharaj, D. Levin, J. Tompkin, Y. Fei, H. Pfister, W. Matusik, C. Zheng, ACM Trans-
`actions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 34, no. 6, 2015.
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`7. Interactive Intrinsic Video Editing
`N. Bonneel, K. Sunkavalli, J. Tompkin, D. Sun, S. Paris, and H. Pfister, ACM Transactions
`on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 33, no. 6, 2014.
`8. Facial Performance Enhancement Using Dynamic Shape Space Analysis
`Bermano AH, Bradley D, Beeler T, Z¨und F, Nowrouzezahrai D, Baran I, Sorkine O, Pfister
`H, Sumner W, Bickel B, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH). 2014.
`9. Example-Based Video Color Grading
`Bonneel N, Sunkavalli K, Paris S, Pfister H., ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM
`SIGGRAPH). 2013; 32(4).
`10. Fabricating Articulated Characters from Skinned
`Meshes.Baecher M, Bickel B, James DL, Pfister H., ACM Transactions on Graphics
`(Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH). 2012; Vol. 31.
`11. Video Face Replacement
`K. Dale, K. Sunkavalli, M.K. Johnson, D. Vlasic, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, ACM Transac-
`tions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia), Vol. 30, 2011
`12. Design and Fabrication of Materials with Desired Deformation Behavior
`B. Bickel, M. Baecher, M. Otaduy, H. R. Lee, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, M. Gross, ACM
`Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 29, No. 3, July 2010, pp.
`63:1-63:10
`13. Physical Reproduction of Materials with Specified Subsurface Scattering
`M. Hasan, M. Fuchs, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, S. Rusinkiewicz, ACM Transactions on
`Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 29, No. 3, July 2010, pp. 61:1-61:10
`14. Multi-scale Image Harmonization
`K. Sunkavalli, M. K. Johnson, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, ACM Transactions on Graphics
`(Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 29, No. 3, July 2010, pp. 125:1-125:10
`15. Capture and Modeling of Non-Linear Heterogeneous Soft Tissue
`B. Bickel, M. Baecher, M. Otaduy, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, M. Gross, ACM Transactions
`on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 28, No. 3, July 2009, pp. 89:1-89:9
`16. Factored Time-Lapse Video
`K. Sunkavalli, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, S. Rusinkiewicz, ACM Transactions on Graphics
`(Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 26, No. 3, July 2007, pp. 101-111
`17. Multi-Scale Capture of Facial Geometry and Motion
`B. Bickel, M. Botsch, R. Angst, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, M. Gross, ACM Transactions on
`Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 26, No. 3, July 2007, pp. 33-41
`18. Analysis of Human Faces Using a Measurement-Based Skin Reflectance Model
`T. Weyrich, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, B. Bickel, C. Donner, C. Tu, J. McAndless, J. Lee, A.
`Ngan, H.W. Jensen, M. Gross, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH),
`Vol. 25, No. 3, July 2006, pp. 1013-1024
`19. A Statistical Model for Synthesis of Detailed Facial Geometry
`A. Golovinskiy, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, S. Rusinkiewicz, T. Funkhouser, ACM Transac-
`tions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 25, No. 3, July 2006, pp. 1025-1034
`20. Inverse Shade Trees for Non-Parametric Material Representation and Editing
`J. Lawrence, A. Ben-Artzi, C. DeCoro, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, R. Ramamoorthi, S.
`Rusinkiewicz, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), July 2006, pp.
`735-745
`21. Defocus Video Matting
`M. McGuire, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, J. Hughes and F. Durand, ACM Transactions on
`Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 24, No. 3, August 2005, pp. 567-576
`22. Face Transfer with Multilinear Models
`D. Vlasic, M. Brand, H. Pfister, and J. Popovic, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM
`SIGGRAPH), Vol. 24, No. 3, August 2005, pp. 426-433
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`23. 3D TV: A Scalable System for Real-Time Acquisition, Transmission, and Autostereoscopic
`Display of Dynamic Scenes
`W. Matusik and H. Pfister, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH),
`Vol. 23, No. 3, August 2004, pp. 811-821
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`24. A Data-Driven Reflectance Model
`W. Matusik, H. Pfister, M. Brand, L. McMillan, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM
`SIGGRAPH), Vol. 22, No. 3, July 2003, pp. 759-770
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`25. Image-Based 3D Photography using Opacity Hulls
`W. Matusik, H. Pfister, P. Beardsley, A. Ngan, R. Ziegler, L. McMillan, ACM Transactions
`on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 21, No. 3, July 2002, pp. 427-437
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`26. Surface Splatting
`M. Zwicker, H. Pfister, J. van Baar, M. Gross, Proceedings of ACM Proceedings of ACM
`SIGGRAPH, July 2001, pp. 371-378
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`27. Surfels—Surface Elements as Rendering Primitives
`H. Pfister, M. Zwicker, J. van Baar, M. Gross, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, July
`2000, pp. 335-342
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`28. The VolumePro Real-Time Ray-Casting System
`H. Pfister, J. Hardenbergh, J. Knittel, H. Lauer, and L. Seiler, Proceedings of ACM
`SIGGRAPH, August 1999, pp. 251-260
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`29. Design Galleries: A General Approach to Setting Parameters for Computer Graphics and
`Animation
`J. Marks, B. Andalman, P.A. Beardsley, W. Freeman, S. Gibson, J. Hodgins, T. Kang,
`B. Mirtich, H. Pfister, W. Ruml, K. Ryall, J. Seims, and S. Shieber, Proceedings of ACM
`SIGGRAPH, August 1997, pp. 389-400
`(cid:5) Journals
`30. Genopathomic Profiling Identifies Signatures for Immunotherapy Response of Lung Ade-
`nocarcinoma via Confounder-Aware Representation Learning
`Deng J, Yang J, Hou L, Wu J, He Y, Zhao M, Ni B, Wei D, Pfister H, Zhou C, Jiang T,
`She Y, Wu C, and Chen C. iScience, vol. 25, nbr. 11, 2022.
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`31. Sporthesia: Augmenting Sports Videos Using Natural Language
`Chen Z, Yang Q, Xie X, Beyer J, Xia H, Wu Y, and Pfister H. IEEE Transactions on
`Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2022.
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`32. The Quest for Omnioculars: Embedded Visualization for Augmenting Basketball Game
`Viewing Experiences
`Lin T, Chen Z, Yang Y, Chiappalupi D, Beyer J, and Pfister H. IEEE Transactions on
`Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2022. IEEE VIS Best Paper Honorable Men-
`tion Award.
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`33. Visinity: Visual Spatial Neighborhood Analysis for Multiplexed Tissue Imaging Data
`Warchol S, Krueger R, Nirmal A, Gaglia G, Jessup J, Ritch C, Hoffer J, Muhlich J, Burger
`M, Jacks T, Santagata S, Sorger P, and Pfister H. IEEE Transactions on Visualization
`and Computer Graphics, 2022.
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`34. Interactive and Visual Prompt Engineering for Ad-hoc Task Adaptation with Large Lan-
`guage Models
`Strobelt H, Webson A, Sanh V, Hoover B, Beyer J, Pfister H, and Rush A. IEEE Trans-
`actions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2022.
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`35. The Ball is in Our Court: Conducting Visualization Research with Sports Experts
`Lin T, Chen Z, Beyer J, Wu Y, Pfister H, and Yang Y. IEEE Computer Graphics and
`Applications, 2022.
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`36. MedMNIST v2: A Large-Scale Lightweight Benchmark for 2D and 3D Biomedical Image
`Classification
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`Yang J, Shi R, Wei D, Liu Z, Zhao L, Ke B, Pfister H, and Ni B. Nature Scientific Data,
`2022.
`37. Three approaches to facilitate invariant neurons and generalization to out-of-distribution
`orientations and illuminations
`Sakai A, Sunagawa T, Madan S, Suzuki K, Katoh T, Kobashi H, Pfister H, Sinha P, Boix
`X, and Sasaki T. Neural Networks, vol. 155, 2022.
`38. Edge-Colored Directed Subgraph Enumeration on the Connectome
`Matejek B, Wei D, Chen T, Tsourakakis C, Mitzenmacher M, and Pfister H. Nature
`Scientific Reports, 2022.
`39. A Survey of Visualization and Analysis in High-Resolution Connectomics
`Beyer J, Troidl J, Boorboor S, Hadwiger M, Kaufman A, and Pfister H. Computer Graphics
`Forum, 2022.
`40. Barrio: Customizable Spatial Neighborhood Analysis and Comparison for Nanoscale Brain
`Structures
`Troidl J, Cali C, Gr¨roller E, Pfister H, Hadwiger M, and Beyer J. Computer Graphics
`Forum, 2022.
`41. Scalable Biologically-Aware Skeleton Generation for Connectomic Volumes
`Matejek B, Franzmeyer T, Wei D, Wang X, Zhao J, Pal agyi K, Lichtman J, and Pfister
`H. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2022.
`42. When and how convolutional neural networks generalize to out-of-distribution categorym-
`dash;viewpoint combinations
`Madan S, Henry T, Dozier J, Ho H, Bhandari N, Sasaki T, Durand F, Pfister H, Boix X.
`Nature Machine Intelligence, vol. 4, nbr. 2, 2022.
`43. Labeling Out-of-View Objects in Immersive Analytics to Support Situated Visual Search-
`ing
`Lin T, Yang Y, Beyer J, and Pfister H. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
`Graphics, 2021.
`44. Narrative Online Guides for the Interpretation of Digital-Pathology Images and Tissue-
`Atlas Data
`Rashid R, Chen Y, Hoffer J, Muhlich JL, Lin J, Krueger R, Pfister H, Mitchell R, Santagata
`S, and Sorger PK. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021.
`45. GenNI: Human-AI Collaboration for Data-Backed Text Generation
`Strobelt H, Kinley J, Krueger R, Beyer J, Pfister H, and Rush AM. IEEE Transactions
`on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2021.
`46. Visualization Design Sprints for Online and On-Campus Courses
`J. Beyer, Y. Yang, and H. Pfister. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2021.
`47. Scope2Screen: Focus+Context Techniques for Pathology TumorAssessment in Multivari-
`ate Image Data
`Jessup J, Krueger R, Warchol S, Hoffer J, Muhlich J, Ritch CC, Gaglia G, Coy S, Chen
`Y, Lin J, Santagata S, Sorger PK, and Pfister H. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
`Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS), 2021.
`48. Exploring the Gap between Informal Mental and Formal Statistical Models
`Pfister H, Wattenberg M, Beyer J, and Nobre C. Harvard Data Science Review, 2021.
`49. VICE: Visual Identification and Correction of Neural Circuit Errors
`Gonda F, Wang X, Beyer J, Hadwiger M, Lichtman J, and Pfister H. Computer Graphics
`Forum, 2021.
`50. Visualizing and Interacting with Geospatial Networks: A Survey and Design Space
`S. Sch¨ottler, Y. Yang, H. Pfister, and B. Bach. Computer Graphics Forum, 2021.
`51. Genome-wide enhancer maps link risk variants to disease genes
`Joseph Nasser, Drew T. Bergman, Charles P. Fulco, Philine Guckelberger, Benjamin R.
`Doughty, Tejal A. Patwardhan, and others. Nature, 2021.
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`52. Minerva: a light-weight, narrative image browser for multiplexed tissue images
`Hoffer J, Rashid R, Muhlich JL, Chen Y, Russell DPW, Ruokonen J, Krueger R, Pfister
`H, Santagata S, and Sorger PK. Journal of open source software, 2020.
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`53. Embodied Navigation in Immersive Abstract Data Visualization: Is Overview+Detail or
`Zooming Better for 3D Scatterplots?
`Yalong Yang, Maxime Cordeil, Johanna Beyer, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, and Hanspeter
`Pfister. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020.
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`54. A Generic Framework and Library for Exploration of Small Multiples Through Interactive
`Piling
`Lekschas F, Zhou X, Chen W, Gehlenborg N, Bach B, and Pfister H. IEEE Transac-
`tions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020. IEEE InfoVis 2020 Best Paper
`Honorable Mention Award.
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`55. Objective Observer-Relative Flow Visualization in Curved Spaces for Unsteady 2D Geo-
`physical Flows
`Rautek P, Mlejnek M, Beyer J, Troidl J, Pfister H, Theußl T, and Hadwiger M. IEEE
`Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2021. IEEE SciVis 2020 Best
`Paper Award.
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`56. TimeTubesX: A Query-Driven Visual Exploration of Observable, Photometric, and Po-
`larimetric Behaviors of Blazars
`N. Sawada, M. Uemura, J. Beyer, H. Pfister, and I. Fujishiro.
`Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020.
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`IEEE Transactions on
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`57. Peax: Interactive Visual Pattern Search in Sequential Data Using Unsupervised Deep
`Representation Learning
`Lekschas F, Peterson B, Haehn D, Ma E, Gehlenborg N, and Pfister H. Computer Graphics
`Forum, 2020. EuroVis 2020 Best Paper Award.
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`58. The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time
`at Single-Cell Resolution
`Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Aviv Regev, Philipp Oberdoerffer, Tal Nawy, Anna Hupalowska,
`Jennifer E. Rood, Orr Ashenberg, Ethan Cerami, Robert J. Coffey, Emek Demir, Li Ding,
`Edward D. Esplin and others. Cell, 2020.
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`59. Facetto: Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Learning for Hierarchical Phenotype
`Analysis in Multi-Channel Image Data
`Krueger R, Beyer J, Jang W, Kim NW, Sokolov A, Sorger PK, and Pfister H, IEEE
`Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020.
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`60. FDive: Learning Relevance Models using Pattern-based Similarity Measures
`Dennig F, Polk T, Lin Z, Schreck T, Pfister H, and Behrisch M, IEEE Transactions on
`Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020.
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`61. Guiro: User-Guided Matrix Reordering
`Behrisch M, Schreck T, and Pfister H, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
`Graphics, 2020.
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`62. Pattern-Driven Navigation in 2D Multiscale Visualizations with Scalable Insets
`Lekschas F, Behrisch M, Bach B, Kerpedjiev P, Gehlenborg N, and Pfister H, IEEE Trans-
`actions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020.
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`63. Visual Interaction with Deep Learning Models through Collaborative Semantic Inference
`Gehrmann S, Strobelt H, Krueger R, Pfister H, and Rush AM, IEEE Transactions on
`Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020.
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`64. Bird’s-Eye - Large-Scale Visual Analytics of City Dynamics using Social Location Data
`Krueger R, Han Q, Ivanov N, Mahtal S, Thom D, Pfister H, and Ertl T, Computer
`Graphics Forum, 2019.
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`65. Developmental Rewiring between Cerebellar Climbing Fibers and Purkinje Cells Begins
`with Positive Feedback Synapse Addition
`Wilson AM, Schalek R, Suissa-Peleg A, Jones TR, Knowles-Barley S, Pfister H, and Licht-
`man JW, Cell Reports, Vol. 29, No. 9. 2019.
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`66. Culling for Extreme-Scale Segmentation Volumes: A Hybrid Deterministic and Proba-
`bilistic Approach
`Beyer J, Mohammed H, Agus M, Al-Awami AK, Pfister H, and Hadwiger M, IEEE Trans-
`actions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2019.
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`67. DXR: A Toolkit for Building Immersive Data Visualizations
`Sicat R, Li J, Choi J, Cordeil M, Jeong W, Bach B, and Pfister H, IEEE Transactions on
`Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2019.
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`68. Evaluating ’Graphical Perception’ with CNNs
`Haehn D, Tompkin J, and Pfister H, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
`Graphics, 2019.
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`69. Seq2Seq-Vis: A Visual Debugging Tool for Sequence-to-Sequence Models
`Strobelt H, Gehrmann S, Behrisch M, Perer A, Pfister H, and Rush AM, IEEE Trans-
`actions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2019. IEEE VIS VAST 2018 Best
`Paper Honorable Mention.
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`70. Commercial Visual Analytics Systems-Advances in the Big Data Analytics Field
`M. Behrisch, D. Streeb, F. Stoffel, D. Seebacher, B. Matejek, S. H. Weber, S. Mittelstaedt,
`H. Pfister, and D. Keim, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
`2019.
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`71. HiGlass: Web-based visual exploration and analysis of genome interaction maps
`Kerpedjiev, Peter and Abdennur, Nezar and Lekschas, Fritz and McCallum, Chuck and
`Dinkla, Kasper and Strobelt, Hendrik and Luber, Jacob M. and Ouellette, Scott B. and
`Azhir, Alaleh and Kumar, Nikhil and Hwang, Jeewon and Lee, Soohyun and Alver, Burak
`H. and Pfister, Hanspeter and Mirny, Leonid A. and Park, Peter J. and Gehlenborg, Nils,
`Genome Biology, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2018.
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`72. Quality Metrics for Information Visualization
`Behrisch, Michael and Blumenschein, Michael and Kim, Nam Wook and Shao, Lin and
`El-Assady, Mennatallah and Fuchs, Johannes and Seebacher, Daniel and Diehl, Alexandra
`and Brandes, Ulrik and Pfister, Hanspeter and Schreck, Tobias and Weiskopf, Daniel and
`Keim, Daniel A., Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2018.
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`73. Abstractocyte: A Visual Tool for Exploring Nanoscale Astroglial Cells
`H. Mohammed, A. K. Al-Awami, J. Beyer, C. Cali, P. Magistretti, H. Pfister, and M.
`Hadwiger, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 24, 2018.
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`74. HiPiler: Visual Exploration Of Large Genome Interaction Matrices With Interactive Small
`Multiples
`F. Lekschas, B. Bach, P. Kerpedjiev, N. Gehlenborg, and H. Pfister, IEEE Transactions
`on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 24, 2018.
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`75. LSTMVis: A Tool for Visual Analysis of Hidden State Dynamics in Recurrent Neural
`Networks
`H. Strobelt, S. Gehrmann, H. Pfister, and A. M. Rush, IEEE Transactions on Visualization
`and Computer Graphics, vol. 24, 2018.
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`76. SparseLeap: Efficient Empty Space Skipping for Large-Scale Volume Rendering
`M. Hadwiger, A. K. Al-Awami, J. Beyer, M. Agos, and H. Pfister, IEEE Transactions on
`Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 24, 2018.
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`77. The Hologram in My Hand: How Effective is Interactive Exploration of 3D Visualizations
`in Immersive Tangible Augmented Reality?
`B. Bach, R. Sicat, J. Beyer, M. Cordeil, and H. Pfister, IEEE Transactions on Visualization
`and Computer Graphics, vol. 24, 2018.
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`78. Visualizing Nonlinear Narratives with Story Curves
`N. W. Kim, B. Bach, H. Im, S. Schriber, M. Gross, and H. Pfister, IEEE Transactions on
`Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 24, 2018.
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`79. BubbleView: An Interface for Crowdsourcing Image Importance Maps and Tracking Visual
`Attention
`N. W. Kim, Z. Bylinskii, M. Borkin, K. Gajos, A. Oliva, F. Durand, and H. Pfister, ACM
`Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 36, 2017.
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`80. Scalable Interactive Visualization for Connectomics
`D. Haehn, J. Hoffer, B. Matejek, A. Suissa-Peleg, A. K. Al-Awami, L. Kamentsky, F.
`Gonda, E. Meng, W. Zhang, R. Schalek, A. Wilson, T. Parag, J. Beyer, V. Kaynig, T. R.
`Jones, J. Tompkin, M. Hadwiger, J. W. Lichtman, and H. Pfister, Informatics, vol. 4, no.
`3, 2017.
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`81. The 4D Nucleome Project
`J. Dekker, A. S. Belmont, M. Guttman, V. O. Leshyk, J. T. Lis, S. Lomvardas, L. Mirny,
`C. O Shea, P. Park, B. Ren, J. Politz, J. Shendure, S. Zhong, Sheng and the 4D Nucleome
`Network, Nature, vol. 549, no. 7671, pp. 219–226, 2017.
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`82. What eye movement and memory experiments can tell us about the human perception of
`visualizations
`Z. Bylinskii, M. Borkin, N.-W. Kim, H. Pfister, and A. Oliva, Journal of Vision, vol. 17,
`no. 10, pp. 532–532, 2017.
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`83. Consistent Video Filtering for Camera Arrays
`Nicolas Bonneel, James Tompkin, Deqing Sun, Oliver Wang, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Sylvain
`Paris, Hanspeter Pfister, Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 397-407, May
`2017.
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`84. The Emerging Genre of Data Comics
`Benjamin Bach, Nathalie Henry Riche, Sheelagh Carpendale, Hanspeter Pfister, IEEE
`Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 6-13, 2017.
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`85. Screenit: Visual Analysis of Cellular Screens
`Kasper Dinkla, Hendrik Strobelt, Bryan Genest, Stephan Reiling, Mark Borowsky, Hanspeter
`Pfister, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 23, no. 1, pp.
`591-600, 2017.
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`86. booc.io: An Education System with Hierarchical Concept Maps and Dynamic Non-linear
`Learning Plans
`Michail Schwab, Hendrik Strobelt, James Tompkin, Colin Fredericks, Connor Huff, Dana
`Higgins, Anton Strezhnev, Mayya Komisarchik, Gary King, Hanspeter Pfister, IEEE
`Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 571-580,
`2017.
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`87. Data-Driven Guides: Supporting Expressive Design for Information Graphics
`Nam Wook Kim, Eston Schweickart, Zhicheng Liu, Mira Dontcheva, Wilmot Li, Jovan
`Popovic, Hanspeter Pfister, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
`vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 491-500, 2017.
`88. Imaging a 1 mm3 Volume of Rat Cortex Using a MultiBeam SEM
`R Schalek, D Lee, N Kasthuri, A Peleg, T Jones, V Kaynig, D Haehn, H Pfister, D Cox,
`JW Lichtman, Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 22, no. S3, pp. 582-583, 2016.
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`89. Automatic Neural Reconstruction from Petavoxel of Electron Microscopy Data
`Adi Suissa-Peleg, Daniel Haehn, Seymour Knowles-Barley, Verena Kaynig, Thouis R
`Jones, Alyssa Wilson, Richard Schalek, Jeffery W Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister, Microscopy
`and Microanalysis, vol. 22, no. S3, pp. 536-537, 2016.
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`90. Guidelines for Effective Usage of Text Highlighting Techniques
`Hendrik Strobelt, Daniela Oelke, Bum Chul Kwon, Tobias Schreck, Hanspeter Pfister,
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`IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’15), vol. 22, no. 1,
`pp. 489-498, 2016.
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`91. NeuroBlocks—Visual Tracking of Segmentation and Proofreading for Large Connectomics
`Projects
`Ali K Ai-Awami, Johanna Beyer, Daniel Haehn, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W Lichtman,
`Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Hadwiger, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
`Graphics (SciVis ’15), vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 738-746, 2016.
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`92. Beyond Memorability: Visualization Recognition and Recall
`Michelle A Borkin, Zoya Bylinskii, Nam Wook Kim, Constance May Bainbridge, Chelsea
`S Yeh, Daniel Borkin, Hanspeter Pfister, Aude Oliva, IEEE Transactions on Visualization
`and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’15), vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 519-528, 2016.
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`93. Vials: Visualizing Alternative Splicing of Genes
`Hendrik Strobelt, Bilal Alsallakh, Joseph Botros, Brant Peterson, Mark Borowsky, Hanspeter
`Pfister, Alexander Lex, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (In-
`foVis ’15), vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 399-408, 2016.
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`94. Pathfinder: Visual Analysis of Paths in Graphs
`Christian Partl, Samuel Gratzl, Marc Streit, Anne Mai Wassermann, Hanspeter Pfister,
`Dieter Schmalstieg, Alexander Lex, Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis), 2016.
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`95. Reconstructing Curvilinear Networks using Path Classifiers and Integer Programming
`Engin T¨uretken, Fethallah Benmansour, Bjoern Andres, Przemyslaw Rafal Glowacki,
`Hanspeter Pfister, Pascal Fua, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine In-
`telligence (PAMI), 2016.
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`96. Saturated Reconstruction of a Volume of Neocortex
`Narayanan Kasthuri, Kenneth Jeffrey Hayworth, Daniel Raimund Berger, Richard Lee
`Schalek, Jos´e Angel Conchello, Seymour Knowles-Barley, Dongil Lee, Amelio Vazquez-
`Reina, Verena Kaynig, Thouis Raymond Jones, Mike Roberts, Josh Lyskowski Morgan,
`Juan Carlos Tapia, H Sebastian Seung, William Gray Roncal, Joshua Tzvi Vogelstein,
`Randal Burns, Daniel Lewis Sussman, Carey Eldin Priebe, Hanspeter Pfister, Jeff William
`Lichtman, Cell, vol. 162, no. 3, pp. 648-661, 2015.
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`97. Sliced and Radon Wasserstein Barycenters of Measures
`Nicolas Bonneel, Julien Rabin, Gabriel Peyr´e, Hanspeter Pfister, Journal of Mathematical
`Imaging and Vision, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 22-45, 2015.
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`98. State-of-the-Art in GPU-Based Large-Scale Volume Visualization
`Johanna Beyer, Markus Hadwiger, Hanspeter Pfister, Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 34,
`no. 8, pp. 13-37, 2015.
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`99. Large-Scale Automatic Reconstruction of Neuronal Processes from Electron Microscopy
`Images
`V. Kaynig, A. Vazquez-Reina, S. Knowles-Barley, M. Roberts, T. R. Jones, N. Kasthuri,
`E. Miller, J. Lichtman, H. Pfister, Medical Image Analysis, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 77-88,
`2015.
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`100. The Big Data Challenges of Connectomics
`J. W. Lichtman, H. Pfister, and N. Shavit, Nature Neuroscience, no. 17, pp. 1448-1454,
`2014.
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`101. Efficient Learning of Image Super-resolution and Compression Artifact Removal with
`Semi-local Gaussian Processes
`Y. Kwon, K. I. Kim, J. Tompkin, J. H. Kim, and C. Theobalt, Transactions on Pattern
`Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2014.
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`102. Guided Visual Exploration of Genomic Stratifications in Cancer
`M. Streit, A. Lex, S. Gratzl, C. Partl, D. Schmalstieg, H. Pfister, PJ Park, N. Gehlenborg,
`Nature Methods, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 884-885, 2014.
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`103. Characterizing Cancer Subtypes using Dual Analysis in Caleydo
`C. Turkay, A. Lex, M. Streit, H. Pfister, H. Hauser, IEEE Computer Graphics and Appli-
`cations, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 38-47, 2014.
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`104. ConTour: Data-Driven Exploration of Multi-Relational Datasets for Drug Discovery
`C. Partl, A. Lex, M. Streit, H. Strobelt, A.-M. Wassermann, H. Pfister, D. Schmalstieg,
`IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VAST ’14), 2014.
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`105. Domino: Extracting, Comparing, and Manipulating Subsets across Multiple Tabular
`Datasets
`S. Gratzl, N. Gehlenborg, A. Lex, H. Pfister, M. Streit, IEEE Transactions on Visualiza-
`tion and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’14), 2014. Honorable Mention for Best Paper
`Award.
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`106. UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets
`A. Lex, N. Gehlenborg, H. Strobelt, R. Vuillemot, H. Pfister, IEEE Transactions on Vi-
`sualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE InfoVis ’14), 2014.
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`107. NeuroLines: A Subway Map Metaphor for Visualizing Nanoscale Neuronal Connectivity
`A. K. Al-Awami, J. Beyer, H. Strobelt, N. Kasthuri, J. W. Lichtman, H. Pfister, M.
`Hadwiger, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE InfoVis
`’14), 2014.
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`108. Vivaldi: A Domain-specific Language for Volume Processing and Visualization on Dis-
`tributed Heterogeneous Systems
`Hyungsuk Choi, Woohyuk Choi, Tran Minh Quan, David GC Hildebrand, Hanspeter Pfis-
`ter, Won-Ki Jeong, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE
`SciVis ’14), vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 2407-2416, 2014.
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`109. Design and Evaluation of Interactive Proofreading Tools for Connectomics
`D. Haehn, S. Knowles-Barley, M. Roberts, J. Beyer, N. Kasthuri, J.W. Lichtman, H.
`Pfister IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE SciVis ’14),
`2014.
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`110. Sliced and RadonWasserstein Barycenters of Measures
`Bonneel N, Rabin J, Peyr G, Pfister H., Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision.
`2014
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`111. Guided Visual Analysis of Large Volumetric Neuroscience Data
`Beyer J, Al-Awami A, Kasthuri N, Lichtman JW, Pfister H, Hadwiger M., IEEE Trans-
`actions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2013; 19(12).
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`112. What Makes a Visualization Memorable?
`Borkin MA, Vo AA, Bylinskii Z, Isola P, Sunkavalli S, Oliva A, Pfister H., IEEE Transac-
`tions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’13). 2013; 19(12).
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`113. Evaluation of Filesystem Provenance Visualization Tools
`Borkin MA, Yeh CS, Boyd M, Macko P, Gajos KZ, Seltzer M, Pfister H., IEEE Transac-
`tions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’13). 2013; 19(12).
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`114. LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings
`Gratzl S, Lex A, Gehlenborg N, Pfister H, Streit M., IEEE Transactions on Visualization
`and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’13). 2013; 19(12):2277-2286. Best Paper Award.
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`115. Entourage: Visualizing Relationships between Biological Pathways using Contextual Sub-
`sets
`Lex A, Partl C, Kalkofen D, Streit M, Wasserman AM, Gratzl S, Schmalstieg D, Pfis-
`ter H., IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’13), 2013;
`19(12):2536-2545.
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`116. A Collaborative Digital Pathology System for Multi-Touch Mobile and Desktop Comput-
`ing Platforms
`Jeong W, Schneider J, Hansen A, Lee M, Faulkner-Jones BE, Hecht J, Najarian R, Yee
`E, Lichtrman J, Pfister H., Computer Graphics Forum. 2013.
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`117. Visualization for the Physical Sciences
`Lipsa DR, Laramee RS, Cox SJ, Roberts JC, Walker R, Borkin MA, Pfister H., Computer
`Graphics Forum. 2012; 31:2317-2347.
`118. Video Snapshots: Creating High-Quality Images from Video Clips
`Sunkavalli K, Joshi N, Kang SB, Cohen M, Pfister H., IEEE Transactions on Visualization
`and Computer Graphics. 2012; 18(11):1868-1879.
`119. Interactive Volume Exploration of Petascale Microscopy Data Streams Using a Visualization-
`Driven Virtual Memory Approach
`Hadwiger M, Beyer J, Jeong W, Pfister H., IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Com-
`puter Graphics (SciVis’12). 2012;18(2):2285-2294.
`120. Evaluation of Artery Visualizations for Heart Disease Diagnosis
`M.A. Borkin, K.Z. Gajos, A. Peters, D. Mitsouras, S. Melchionna, F.J. Rybicki, C.L.
`Feldman, H. Pfister, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , Vol.
`17, 2011
`121. Interactive Histology of Large-Scale Biomedical Image Stacks
`W.-K. Jeong, J. Schneider, S. G. Turney, B. E. Faulkner-Jones, D. Meyer, R. Westermann,
`R. C. Reid, J. Lichtman, and H. Pfister, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
`Graphics, 16(6), 2010, 1386–1395
`122. MulteeSum: A Tool for Comparative Spatial and Temporal Gene Expression Data
`M. Meyer, T. Munzner, A. DePace, and H. Pfister, IEEE Transactions on Visualization
`and Computer Graphics, 16(6), 2010, pp. 908–917
`123. Pathline: A Tool for Comparative Functional Genomics
`M. Meyer, B. Wong, M. Styczynski, T. Munzner, H. Pfister. Computer Graphics Forum
`(Proceedings of EuroVis 2010), 29(3), 2010.
`124. CG2R