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dr. Charl P. Botha |
Work Description
My research and teaching are in the field of medical visualisation. The group specialises in applications and principles for medical research (e.g. BLI, DTI, IVUS), diagnosis (e.g. virtual colonoscopy) as well as pre- and intra-operative planning (e.g. shoulder replacement). The TU Delft Medical Visualisation site has a more complete list of our projects and publications. As part of the Medical Delta research programme, I spend one day per week working at the Department of Radiology (in the LKEB laboratory) of the Leiden University Medical Center.
On the more fundamental side, we are currently ramping up our efforts on Longitudinal Medical Visualisation (LMV). In short, this entails the research and development of new techniques that are able to turn large collections of time-varying multi-modal (including image- and metadata-based) datasets, representing a number of patients/subjects that have been tracked over time, into effective interactive visual representations. These techniques enable (bio)medical researchers to visually explore their data and to extract the information (patterns, relations, hypotheses) it contains.
Students!
If you are an M.Sc. student looking for a final project in the exciting field of Medical Visualisation, please send me a mail so we can have a chat about what's available. We collaborate with a number of academic hospitals, so there are always challenging and interesting problems to solve. B.Sc. project students are also welcome, we have more interesting problems than we have people!
Also see the list of current medical visualisation projects for possibilities.