An Introduction to Evaluation in Medical Visualization

Medical visualization papers often deal with data that is interpreted by medical domain experts in a research or clinical context. Since visualizations are by definition designed to be interpreted by a human observer, often an evaluation is performed to confirm the utility of a presented method. The exact type of evaluation required is not always clear, especially to new researchers. With this paper, we hope to clarify the different types of evaluation methods that exist and provide practical guidelines to choose the most suitable evaluation method to increase the value of the work.

@InProceedings { SL16,
  author       = "Smit, Noeska Natasja and Lawonn, Kai",
  title        = "An Introduction to Evaluation in Medical Visualization",
  booktitle    = "Proceedings of EuroRV3: EuroVis Workshop on Reproducibility, Verification, and Validation in Visualization",
  year         = "2016",
  publisher    = "Eurographics Digital Library",
  url          = "http://graphics.tudelft.nl/Publications-new/2016/SL16"
}