Acknowledgements

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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First of all, I want to thank my supervisor Sören Grimm for all his advise and help. I further thank Eduard Gröller, our beloved master, for his supervision and support. Many thanks to Rainer Wegenkittel for creating fantastic images and for being a driving factor for continuous improvement of our implementation. Thanks to Armin Kanitsar for helpful discussions and suggestions, as well as successful management of the ADAPT project. I want to express my gratitude to Tiani Medgraph for making this work possible.

The presented work has been funded by the ADAPT project (FFF-804544). ADAPT is supported by Tiani Medgraph, Austria (http://www.tiani.com), and the Forschungsförderungsfonds für die gewerbliche Wirtschaft, Austria. See http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/vis/adapt for further information on this project. The used datasets are courtesy of Univ.-Klinik Innsbruck, AKH Vienna, Univ.-Klinikum Freiburg, and NLM.