The 2010 IEEE Visualization Contest targeted the field of multimodal visualization for neurosurgical planning. The primary challenge in planning such interventions to identify all related risk-structures, their spatial relation to the lesion that's target to resection, as well as a safe access path to that lesion. Multimodal visualization should support the surgeon in performing this task.
The contest aims at demonstrating how novel visualization and interaction techniques from the fore-front of scientific research can help to solve real-world problems of high relevance.