Future Challenges and Unsolved Problems in Health Visualization

With the growing popularity of wearable devices, health-related sensors, electronic health records (EHR), population health records (PopHR), computational biology and simulation, imaging data such as CT and MRI scans, and X-rays, the volume of digital health data is growing rapidly. Large volumes of heterogeneous health data require advanced visualization and visual analytics systems to uncover valuable insight buried in complex sources of data. As a rapidly evolving sub-field of visualization and visual analytics, many interactive health visualization systems have been proposed, developed, and evaluated by clinicians to support effective clinical analysis and decision making. Despite the growing progress in the field, many challenges and unsolved problems remain. The health-related problems that we face today are a clear sign of the growing need to progress in this area. This panel presents an open discussion of the top future challenges and unsolved problems in health and healthrelated visualization. The panel features experts with a range of different backgrounds covering a variety of health-related perspectives. This panel provides a valuable overview of health-related visualization revealing both mature areas and future research directions.