Visualization and User Interaction Methods for Multiscale Biomedical Data

The need for handling huge amounts of data from several sources is becoming increasingly important for biomedical scientists. In the past, there were mainly different modalities in imaging techniques that had to be combined. Those modalities usually measured different physical effects from the same object and shared dimensions and resolution. Nowadays, an increasing number of complex use cases exist in biomedical science and clinical diagnostics that require data from various domains, each one related to a different spatiotemporal scale. Multiscale spatial visualization and interaction can help physicians and scientists to explore and understand this data. In the recent years, the number of published articles on efficient scientist-centric visualization and interaction methods has drastically increased. This chapter describes current techniques on multiscale visualization and user interaction and proposes strategies to accommodate current needs in biomedical data analysis.