Bernhard Kainz

Bernhard Kainz received a M.Sc. in Computer Science (Telematics, Computer Graphics and Vision and Biomedical Engineering) from Graz University of Technology in 2007 with highest distinction. He is currently a research assistant in the team of Prof. Schmalstieg at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at the Graz University of Technology. He finished his Ph.D.-Thesis within the field of medical visualization, volume graphics and GPU algorithms in 2011. Currently his research is funded by the 7th Framework Programme by the European Commission in the context of the research project "IMPPACT" (FP7-2008-ICT-223877) which aims for plannable liver tumor radio frequency ablation and soon by the Managed Volume Processing on the GPU project, which is funded by the FWF under contract 23329.

Reviewed Publications

• Rostislav Khlebnikov, Bernhard Kainz, Judith Muehl and Dieter Schmalstieg:
  Crepuscular Rays for Tumor Accessibility Planning.
  conditionally accepted for IEEE Visualization 2011
                

• Bernhard Kainz, Markus Steinberger, Stefan Hauswiesner, Rostislav Khlebnikov, and Dieter Schmalstieg:
  Stylization-based ray prioritization for guaranteed frame rates.
  to appear in Proceedings of NPAR 2011
                

• Rostislav Khlebnikov, Bernhard Kainz, Bernhard Roth, Judith Muehl and Dieter Schmalstieg:
  GPU based on-the-fly light emission-absorption approximation for direct multi-volume rendering.
  in Proceedings of EuroGraphics 2011
                

• S. Koestenbauer, P. Stiegler, V. Stadlbauer, U. Mayrhauser, B. Leber, D. Blattl, B. Kainz, O. Reich, R. H. Portugaller, I. Wiederstein and K.H. Tscheliessnigg:
  An easy way to visualize large-scale sections.
  J Surg Radiol. 2011 Apr 1;2(2), 170--173
      

• Tuomas Alhonnoro, Mika Pollari, Mikko Lilja, Ronan Flanagan, Bernhard Kainz, Judith Muehl, Ursula Mayrhauser, Horst Portugaller, Philipp Stiegler and Karlheinz Tscheliessnigg:
  Vessel Segmentation for Ablation Treatment Planning and Simulation.
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2010 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2010, Volume 6361/2010, 45-52
      

• Bernhard Kainz, Markus Steinberger, Stefan Hauswiesner, Rostislav Khlebnikov, Denis Kalkofen, Dieter Schmalstieg:
  Using Perceptual Features to Prioritize Ray-based Image Generation
  in Proceedings of Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2011 (I3D), Feb. 2011. (reviewed poster)
      

• Bernhard Kainz, Markus Grabner, Alexander Bornik, Stefan Hauswiesner, Judith Mühl, Dieter Schmalstieg:
  Efficient Ray Casting of Volumetric Datasets With Polyhedral Boundaries on Manycore GPUs
  ACM Trans. Graph., Volume 28 , Issue 5 (December 2009), Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, Article No. 152.
              

• Judith K. Muehl, Bernhard K. Kainz, Horst R. Portugaller, Philipp B. Stiegler and Christian Bauer:
  Computer oriented image acquisition of the liver: Toward a better numerical model for radiofrequency ablation.
  Proc. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual Conference., pp. 3755-3758, IEEE, September 2009.
      

• Judith K. Muehl, Bernhard Kainz, Alexander Bornik, Markus Grabner, Stefan Hauswiesner and Dieter Schmalstieg:
  The Future of Volume Graphics in Medical Virtual Reality.
  World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, IFMBE Proceedings, pp. 1349-1352, 2009.
      

• Bernhard Kainz, Ursula Reiter, Gert Reiter, and Dieter Schmalstieg:
  In Vivo Interactive Visualization Of Four-Dimensional Blood Flow Patterns
  in: The Visual Computer, Volume 25, Number 9 / September, pp. 853-862 (2009)
      

• Gert Reiter, Ursula Reiter, Gabor Kovacs, Bernhard Kainz, Karin Schmidt, Robert Maier, Horst Olschewski, Rainer Rienmüller:
  Magnetic resonance-derived three-dimensional blood flow patterns as marker of manifest pulmonary hypertension.
  European Journal of Radiology, Proc. 21st European Congress of Radiology, March 2009.
      
• Ursula Reiter, Gert Reiter, Gabor Kovacs, Bernhard Kainz, Karin Schmidt, Robert Maier, Horst Olschewski, Rainer Rienmüller:
  Non-invasive measurement of elevated mean pulmonary arterial pressure.
  European Journal of Radiology, Proc. 21st European Congress of Radiology, March 2009.
      

• Bernhard Kainz, Markus Grabner and Matthias Rüther:
  Fast Marker Based C-Arm Pose Estimation
  LNCS, proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2008), New York, pp. 652-659 (2008).
           

• Gert Reiter, Ursula Reiter, Gabor Kovacs, Bernhard Kainz, Karin Schmidt, Robert Maier, Horst Olschewski, and Rainer Rienmüller:
  MR Derived Three-Dimensional Blood Flow Patterns In The Main Pulmonary Artery As Marker Of Pulmonary Hypertension And Measure Of Elevated Mean Pulmonary Arterial Pressure.
  in: Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. 2008;1:23-30; doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.108.780247 (2008).
  

      

• Daniel Wagner, Bernhard Kainz and Dieter Schmalstieg:
  Realtime 3D Graphics Programming Using the Quake3 Engine
  CGEMS Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source, SIGGRAPH Educational Committee and the Eurographics Education Board (2008), ACM Honorable Mention
          

• Markus Grabner, Thomas Pock, Tobias Gross and Bernhard Kainz:
  Automatic Differentiation for GPU-Accelerated 2D/3D Registration.
  in: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 64, proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automatic Differentiation, ISBN 978-3-540-68935-5, pp. 259-269 (2008).
      

• Gert Reiter, Ursula Reiter, Bernhard Kainz, Andreas Greiser, Horst Bischof and Rainer Rienmüller:
  MR vector field measurement and visualization of normal and pathological time-resolved three-dimensional cardiovascular blood flow patterns.
  in: Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance 9 (2007) 2, pp. 237 - 238
      

Posters

• Bernhard Kainz, Dieter Schmalstieg:
  GPU Visualization of Four-Dimensional Cardiovascular Bood Flow
  at: ECR IMAGINE 2008 for the Austrian Image Processing Group, European Society of Radiology, Vienna (Mar. 2008).
• Daniela Markov-Vetter, Judith Muehl, Christian Geiger, Michael Riccabona, Bernhard Kainz and Erich Sorantin:
  3D Augmented Reality Simulator for Neonatal Cranial Sonography
  at: ECR IMAGINE 2008 for the Austrian Image Processing Group, European Society of Radiology, Vienna (Mar. 2008).

Thesis Papers

• Bachelor's Thesis
  Title: Entwurf einer Studie zur Implementierung eines Systems zur Gewährleistung von Codesicherheit auf Registerebene
  Supervision: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Eugen Brenner
  Publication date: June 2005
  

• Master's Thesis
  Title: Quantitative Measurement and Visualization Of Four-Dimensional Cardiovascular Blood Flow
  Supervision: Univ. Prof. DI. Dr. Dieter Schmalstieg / Ing. DI Michael Kalkusch
  Publication date: September 2007
  

• Ph.D. Thesis
  Title: Ray-Based Image Generation For Advanced Medical Applications
  Supervision: Univ. Prof. DI. Dr. Dieter Schmalstieg / Prof. DI. Dr. Markus Hadwiger
  Publication date: May 2011
  

Talks

Exhibitions

• Alexander Bornik, Bernhard Kainz:
  Stereoscopic Volume Rendering. Graz:CSI
  VITAL 2010, Graz, Austria, (Jan. 2010)
• Bernhard Kainz, Dieter Schmalstieg:
  GPU Visualization of Four-Dimensional Cardiovascular Bood Flow
  ECR IMAGINE 2008 for the Austrian Image Processing Group, European Society of Radiology, Vienna (Mar. 2008)
• Bernhard Kainz, Dieter Schmalstieg:
  Live Demo of GPU Acceleration for Medical Visualization
  Significant Advances in Computer Science (SACS), Graz Universtiy of Technology, Graz (Nov. 2007)

Ongoing Student Projects

Finished Student Projects