Dr. Yarden Livnat







Research Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Medicine
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
WEB 4652
yarden@sci.utah.edu
SCI Personnel Page

Curriculum Vitae: cv.pdf


Publications

Journal Papers

  1. P. Gesteland, Y. Livnat, N. Galli, M. H. Samore, A. V. Gundlapalli. "The EpiCanvas Infectious Disease Weather map: An Interactive Visual Exploration of Temporal Correlations" Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Vol. 9, pp. 954-959, 2012.
    ISDS Award for Outstanding Research Article in Biosurveillance (Scientific Achievement) selected from all journal publications since 2010, ISDS 2012
  2. G. Draper, Y. Livnat, R. Riesenfeld. "Survey of Radial Methods for Information Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, pp. 759-776, Vol. 15(5), 2009
  3. S. Foresti, J. Agutter, Y. Livnat, S. Moon, R. Erbacher. "Visual Correlation of Network Alerts" IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol 26(2), March 2006.
  4. Y. Livnat, J. Agutter, S. Moon and S. Foresti, "Visual Correlation for Situational Awareness", IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2005 [pdf]
  5. S. Parker, M. Parker, Y. Livnat, P.P. Sloan, C.D. Hansen, P. Shirley. "Interactive Ray Tracing for Volume Visualization", In IEEE Transactions on Visualization an dComputerGraphics, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 238--250, July-September, 1999. [pdf]
  6. F. Yu, Y. Livnat, C.R. Johnson. "An Automatic Adaptive Refinement and Derefinement Method for 3D Elliptic Problems" In Applied Numerical Mathematics, 1997. [ps]
  7. Y. Livnat, H.W. Shen, C.R. Johnson. "A Near Optimal Isosurface Extraction Algorithm for Structured and Unstructured Grids" In IEEE Transactions on Visual Computer Graphics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 73--84. 1996. [ps]
  8. C.R. Johnson, D.M. Beazley, Y. Livnat, S.G. Parker, J.A. Schmidt, H.W. Shen, D.M. Weinstein. "Applications of Large-Scale Computing and Scientific Visualization in Medicine" In International Journal on Supercomputer Applications and High PerformanceComputing, 1996. [ps]

Full Papers in Conference Proceedings (Refereed Paper)

  1. Yi Yang, Patric Keller, Yarden Livnat, Peter Liggesmeyer, and Hans Hagen “Visual Approach for Supporting the Analysis and Improvement of Safety-Critical Systems” ITRG Workshop, 2012 (accepted).
  2. P. Gesteland, Y. Livnat, N. Galli, M. H. Samore, A. V. Gundlapalli. "The EpiCanvas Infectious Disease Weather map: An Interactive Visual Exploration of Temporal Correlations" AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium, 2011
    Winner of the Homer R. Warner Award
  3. Y. Al-Zokari, D. Schneider, D, Zeckzer, L. Guzman, Y. Livnat, H. Hagen. "Enhanced CakES representing Safety Analysis results of Embedded System". Risks Awareness and Management through Smart Solutions (RAMSS 2011), pp 783-790, 2011
  4. Y. Livnat, P. Gesteland, J. Benuzillo, W. Pettey, D. Bolton, F. Drews, H. Kramer, M. Samare, "A Novel Workbench for Epidemic investigation and Analysis of Search Strategies in public health practice", AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium, pp. 647-651, 2010
  5. G. Draper, Y. Livnat, R, Riesenfeld, "A Visual Query Language for Correlation Discovery and Management" Proc. Second Ann. Visual and Iconic Language Conf.(VaIL08) pp. 14-23, 2008
  6. Y. Livnat, J. Agutter, S. Moon, R. F. Erbacher\ and S. Foresti. "A Visualization Paradigm for Network Intrusion Detection", In 6th IEEE Information Assurance Workshop, 2005 [pdf]
  7. Y. Livnat, X. Tricoche. "Interactive Point Based Isosurface Extraction", IEEE Visualization '04, pp. 457-646, 2004 [pdf]
  8. Y. Livnat, C.D. Hansen, S.G. Parker, C.R. Johnson. "Isosurface extraction for large-scale datasets", In Proceedings of Scientific Visualization -Dagstuhl 2000, Edited by F. Post, 2001.
  9. S. Parker, P. Shirley, Y. Livnat, C. Hansen, P.-P. Sloan, M. Parker. "Interacting with Gigabyte Volume Datasets on the Origin 2000", In The 41st Annual Cray User's Group Conference, 1999. [pdf]
  10. Y. Livnat, C.D. Hansen. "View Dependent Isosurface Extraction", IEEE Visualization '98, pp. 175--180. Oct, 1998. [ps]
  11. S. Parker, P. Shirley, Y. Livnat, C. Hansen, P.-P. Sloan. "Interactive Ray Tracing for Isosurface Extraction" IEEE Visualization '98, pp. 233--238. October, 1998. [ps]
    Best Paper Award
  12. H.W. Shen, C.D. Hansen, Y. Livnat, C.R. Johnson. "Isosurfacing in Span Space with Utmost Efficiency" In IEEE Visualization `96, IEEE Press, pp. 287--294. 1996. [ps]
  13. J. Painter, H.P. Bunge, Y. Livnat. "Case Study: Mantle Convection Visualization on the Cray T3D" In IEEE Visualization `96, pp. 409--412. 1996.

Invited Papers

  1. Yarden Livnat, Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Matthew H. Samore, "Epinome: A Visual-Analytics Workbench for Epidemiology Data" IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 89-95, Mar/Apr 2012
  2. C.R. Johnson, D. Brederson, C. Hansen, M. Ikits, G. Kindlmann, Y. Livnat, S. Parker, D. Weinstein, R. Whitaker. "Computational Field Visualization", In Computer Graphics, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 5-9, 2001
  3. C.R. Johnson, S.G. Parker, C. Hansen, G.L. Kindlmann, Y. Livnat "Interactive Simulation and Visualization", In IEEE Computer, Vol. 32, No. 12, pp. 59--65. 1999. [pdf]

Book Chapters

  1. Y. Livnat, S.G. Parker, C.R. Johnson. "Fast Isosurface Extraction Methods for Large Image Data Sets", In Handbook of Medical Imaging, Edited by A.N. Bankman, Academic Press, San Diego, CA pp. 731--745. Nov, 2000.
  2. Y. Livnat "Accelerated Isosurface Extraction Approaches" In The Visualization Handbook, C. Hansen and C. Johnson editors, Elsevier, 2005
  3. Y. Livnat, S. Parker, C.R. Johnson. "Fast Isosurface Extraction Methods for Large Image Data Sets", Handbook of Medical Imaging: Processing and Analysis, 2nd Edition, Ch. 44, I. Bankman (ed.), Academic Press, 2009
  4. Y. Livnat, C. Hansen, C. Johnson, "Isosurface Extraction for Large-Scale Data Sets", In Data Visualization The State of The Art, F. Post, G. Nielson, G. Bonneau editors, pp. 77-92, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003
  5. C.R. Johnson, D. Brederson, C. Hansen, M. Ikits, G. Kindlmann, Y. Livnat, S. Parker, D. Weinstein, R. Whitaker. "Computational Field Visualization", In Computer Graphics, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 5--9, 2001.
  6. C.R. Johnson, Y. Livnat, L. Zhukov, D. Hart, G. Kindlmann. "Computational Field Visualization", In Mathematics Unlimited -- 2001 and Beyond, Vol. 2, Edited by B. Engquist and W. Schmid, Springer-Verlag, pp. 605--630. 2001. [pdf]

Technical Reports

  1. Y. Livnat, P. Gesteland, A. V. Gundlapalli. "Visual Correlation for the Early Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks", TATRC, 2008
  2. Y. Livnat, X. Tricoche. "Shadows for Point Based Isosurfaces", SCI Institute Technical Report, 2005 [pdf]
  3. Y. Livnat, C. Hansen. "Dynamic View Dependent Isosurface Extraction", SCI Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-2003-004, 2003. [pdf]
  4. Y. Livnat, X. Cavin, C. Hansen. "PHASE: Progressive Hardware Assisted IsoSurface Extraction Framework", SCI Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-2002-001, 2002. [pdf]
  5. Y. Livnat "NOISE, WISE and SAGE: Algorithms for Rapid Isosurface Extraction", SCI Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-1999-001, December, 1999. [pdf]
  6. C.R. Johnson, D.M. Beazley, Y. Livnat, S.G. Parker, J.A. Schmidt, H.W. Shen, D.M. Weinstein. "Applications of Large-Scale Computing and Scientific Visualization in Medicine" SCI Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-1997-001, 1997. [pdf]

Tutorials

  1. S. Parker, M. Parker, Y. Livnat, P. Sloan, C. Hansen, P. Shirley. "Interactive ray tracing for volume visulaization" In Proceeding of SIGGRAPH '05, ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Courses, 2005.
  2. L. Ng, J. Cates, Y. Livnat, L. Ibanz. "Medical Visualization with ITK", Visualization course notes, IEEE Visualization 2003

Posters

  1. Y. Livnat, Per Gesteland, et al. "Epinome - A Novel Workbench for Epidemic Investigation and Analysis of Search Strategies in Public Health Practice", American Medical Informatics Association, Spring Congress; Orlando, FL 2009
  2. W. Pettey, J. Benuzillo, B. Walker, A. Parks, H. Kramer, P. Gesteland, M. Rubin, F. Drews, Y. Livnat, M. Samore, "Using agent-based simulations of infectious disease spread to enhance public health decision support tools" American Public Health Association 173th Annual Meeting 2009
  3. J. Benuzillo, W. Pette, B. Walke, M. Rubin, Y. Livnat, A. Parks, P. Gesteland, M. Samore, "Description of an Electronic Tool Designed to Support Training, Decision making, and Policy-making in Public Health" American Medical Informatics Association, Spring Congress; Orlando, FL 2009