TY - CHAP A1 - Hlawitschka, Mario A1 - Hotz, Ingrid A1 - Kratz, Andrea A1 - Marai, G. Elisabeta A1 - Moreno, Rodrigo A1 - Scheuermann, Gerik A1 - Stommel, Markus A1 - Wiebel, Alexander A1 - Zhang, Eugene ED - Westin, Carl-Frederic ED - Burgeth, Bernhard ED - Vilanova, Anna T1 - Top Challenges in the Visualization of Engineering Tensor Fields T2 - Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher-Order Descriptors for Multi-Field Data Y1 - 2014 SP - 3 EP - 15 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hoch, Hannelore A1 - Wessel, Andreas A1 - Asche, Manfred A1 - Baum, Daniel A1 - Beckmann, Felix A1 - Bräunig, Peter A1 - Ehrig, Karsten A1 - Mühlethaler, Roland A1 - Riesemeier, Heinrich A1 - Staude, Andreas A1 - Stelbrink, Björn A1 - Wachmann, Ekkehard A1 - Weintraub, Phyllis A1 - Wipfler, Benjamin A1 - Wolff, Carsten A1 - Zilch, Mathias T1 - Non-Sexual Abdominal Appendages in Adult Insects Challenge a 300 Million Year Old Bauplan JF - Current Biology Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.040 VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - R16 EP - R17 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Meinel, Dietmar A1 - Ehrig, Karsten A1 - Lhostis, Valrie A1 - Muzeau, Benoist A1 - Paetsch, Olaf T1 - Examination of Damage Processes in Concrete with CT T2 - Proceedings of Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Vincens, Eric A1 - Witt, Karl Josef A1 - Homberg, Ulrike T1 - Approaches to Determine the Constriction Size Distribution for Understanding Filtration Phenomena in Granular Materials N2 - Granular filters in hydraulically loaded earth structures constitute the ultimate barrier for the blockage of small particles moving through the structure regularly or along concentrated leaks. If filters are inefficient to block small particles several types of internal erosion may be initiated. A corresponding phenomenon appears during suffusion in a wide graded hydraulically loaded fill, when fine particles, embedded in the pore structure of a soil skeleton, are washed out. The cumulative constriction size distribution (CSD) is physically the key property that qualifies the soils retention capability as like a spatial acting sieve. Constrictions are defined as the narrowest sections of channels between larger volumes (pores) within the pore network of granular material and they are the main obstacles for a small particle to overcome when flowing along pathways. At least three different approaches are available to determine and compute the CSD, i.e. experimental, numerical and analytical methods. The purpose of this review is to present and discuss these methods pointing out their limits, advantages and significance related to internal erosion phenomena. T3 - ZIB-Report - 14-01 Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-43960 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Homberg, Ulrike A1 - Baum, Daniel A1 - Wiebel, Alexander A1 - Prohaska, Steffen A1 - Hege, Hans-Christian ED - Bremer, Peer-Timo ED - Hotz, Ingrid ED - Pascucci, Valerio ED - Peikert, Ronald T1 - Definition, Extraction, and Validation of Pore Structures in Porous Materials BT - Theory, Algorithms, and Applications T2 - Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization III Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04099-8_15 SP - 235 EP - 248 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weber, Britta A1 - Tranfield, Erin M. A1 - Höög, Johanna L. A1 - Baum, Daniel A1 - Antony, Claude A1 - Hyman, Tony A1 - Verbavatz, Jean-Marc A1 - Prohaska, Steffen T1 - Automated stitching of microtubule centerlines across serial electron tomograms JF - PLoS ONE Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113222 SP - e113222 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Redemann, Stefanie A1 - Weber, Britta A1 - Möller, Marit A1 - Verbavatz, Jean-Marc A1 - Hyman, Anthony A1 - Baum, Daniel A1 - Prohaska, Steffen A1 - Müller-Reichert, Thomas T1 - The Segmentation of Microtubules in Electron Tomograms Using Amira T2 - Mitosis: Methods and Protocols Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0329-0_12 SP - 261 EP - 278 PB - Springer ER - TY - GEN A1 - Weber, Britta A1 - Tranfield, Erin M. A1 - Höög, Johanna L. A1 - Baum, Daniel A1 - Antony, Claude A1 - Hyman, Tony A1 - Verbavatz, Jean-Marc A1 - Prohaska, Steffen T1 - Automated stitching of microtubule centerlines across serial electron tomograms N2 - Tracing microtubule centerlines in serial section electron tomography requires microtubules to be stitched across sections, that is lines from different sections need to be aligned, endpoints need to be matched at section boundaries to establish a correspondence between neighboring sections, and corresponding lines need to be connected across multiple sections. We present computational methods for these tasks: 1) An initial alignment is computed using a distance compatibility graph. 2) A fine alignment is then computed with a probabilistic variant of the iterative closest points algorithm, which we extended to handle the orientation of lines by introducing a periodic random variable to the probabilistic formulation. 3) Endpoint correspondence is established by formulating a matching problem in terms of a Markov random field and computing the best matching with belief propagation. Belief propagation is not generally guaranteed to converge to a minimum. We show how convergence can be achieved, nonetheless, with minimal manual input. In addition to stitching microtubule centerlines, the correspondence is also applied to transform and merge the electron tomograms. We applied the proposed methods to samples from the mitotic spindle in C. elegans, the meiotic spindle in X. laevis, and sub-pellicular microtubule arrays in T. brucei. The methods were able to stitch microtubules across section boundaries in good agreement with experts’ opinions for the spindle samples. Results, however, were not satisfactory for the microtubule arrays. For certain experiments, such as an analysis of the spindle, the proposed methods can replace manual expert tracing and thus enable the analysis of microtubules over long distances with reasonable manual effort. T3 - ZIB-Report - 14-41 KW - electron tomography KW - microtubules KW - serial sectioning KW - image analysis KW - geometry reconstruction KW - image and geometry alignment KW - point correspondence Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-52958 SN - 1438-0064 ER -