Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP 2019)

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Applications".

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue intends to contain a selection of carefully revised and extended best papers to be presented at the 10th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP 2019), to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, 25–27 February, 2019. IVAPP aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Information Visualization. The conference covers a broad range of topics related to Information Visualization indicated by the topic list below. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged.

Selected papers which were presented at the conference are invited to be submitted as extended versions to this Special Issue of the journal Information after the conference.

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Constructing and Visualizing High-Quality Classifier Decision Boundary Maps
by Francisco C. M. Rodrigues, Mateus Espadoto, Roberto Hirata, Jr. and Alexandru C. Telea
Information 2019, 10(9), 280; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10090280 - 9 Sep 2019
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Visualizing decision boundaries of machine learning classifiers can help in classifier design, testing and fine-tuning. Decision maps are visualization techniques that overcome the key sparsity-related limitation of scatterplots for this task. To increase the trustworthiness of decision map use, we perform an extensive [...] Read more.
Visualizing decision boundaries of machine learning classifiers can help in classifier design, testing and fine-tuning. Decision maps are visualization techniques that overcome the key sparsity-related limitation of scatterplots for this task. To increase the trustworthiness of decision map use, we perform an extensive evaluation considering the dimensionality-reduction (DR) projection techniques underlying decision map construction. We extend the visual accuracy of decision maps by proposing additional techniques to suppress errors caused by projection distortions. Additionally, we propose ways to estimate and visually encode the distance-to-decision-boundary in decision maps, thereby enriching the conveyed information. We demonstrate our improvements and the insights that decision maps convey on several real-world datasets. Full article
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Enhanced Grid-Based Visual Analysis of Retinal Layer Thickness with Optical Coherence Tomography
by Martin Röhlig, Ruby Kala Prakasam, Jörg Stüwe, Christoph Schmidt, Oliver Stachs and Heidrun Schumann
Information 2019, 10(9), 266; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10090266 - 23 Aug 2019
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Optical coherence tomography enables high-resolution 3D imaging of retinal layers in the human eye. The thickness of the layers is commonly assessed to understand a variety of retinal and systemic disorders. Yet, the thickness data are complex and currently need to be considerably [...] Read more.
Optical coherence tomography enables high-resolution 3D imaging of retinal layers in the human eye. The thickness of the layers is commonly assessed to understand a variety of retinal and systemic disorders. Yet, the thickness data are complex and currently need to be considerably reduced prior to further processing and analysis. This leads to a loss of information on localized variations in thickness, which is important for early detection of certain retinal diseases. We propose an enhanced grid-based reduction and exploration of retinal thickness data. Alternative grids are computed, their representation quality is rated, and best fitting grids for given thickness data are suggested. Selected grids are then visualized, adapted, and compared at different levels of granularity. A visual analysis tool bundles all computational, visual, and interactive means in a flexible user interface. We demonstrate the utility of our tool in a complementary analysis procedure, which eases the evaluation of ophthalmic study data. Ophthalmologists successfully applied our solution to study localized variations in thickness of retinal layers in patients with diabetes mellitus. Full article
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