Publications

A full list of my publications and citation statistics can be found on my Google Scholar page.

Journal Publications

EmbryoProfiler: A Visual Clinical Decision Support System for IVF. IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025.

Knittel, Johannes; Warchol, Simon; Troidl, Jakob; Brumar, Camelia D.; Yu Yang, Helen; Mörth, Eric; Krüger, Robert; Needleman, Daniel; Ben-Yosef, Dalit; Pfister, Hanspeter.

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2025.3634780

An estrogen receptor signaling transcriptional program linked to immune evasion in human hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. bioarchiv (preprint), 2025.

Simada, Kenichi; Michaud, Daniel E; Cui, Yvonne Xiaoyong; Zheng, Kelly; Goldberg, Jonathan; Ju, Zhenlin; Schnitt, Stuart J; Pastorello, Ricardo ; Kania, Lukas D; Hoffer, John ; Muhlich, Jeremy L; Hyun, Nhan; Krueger, Robert; ..; Sorger, Peter K; Agudo, Judith; Mittendorf, Elizabeth A; Guerriero, Jennifer L.

DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.23.619172

Addressing Persistent Challenges in Digital Image Analysis of Cancerous Tissues. Molecular Oncology, 2025.

Prabhakaran, Sandhya; Yapp, Clarence; Baker, Gregory J; Beyer, Johanna; Hwan Chang, Young; Creason, Allison L; Krueger, Robert; Muhlich, Jeremy; Patterson, Nathan Heath; Sidak, Kevin; Sudar, Damir; Taylor, Adam J; Ternes, Luke; Troidl, Jakob; Xie, Yubin ; Sokolov, Artem; Tyson, Darren R.

DOI: 10.1002/1878-0261.13783

The State of Single-Cell Atlas Data Visualization in the Biological Literature. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2025.

Keller, Mark S; Moerth, Eric; Smits, Thomas C; Warchol, Simon; Wang, Qianwen; Krueger, Robert; Pfister, Hanspeter; Gehlenborg, Nils.

DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2025.3583979

Cell2Cell: Explorative Cell Interaction Analysis in Multi-Volumetric Tissue Data. Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024.

Moerth, Eric; Sidak, Kevin; Maliga, Zoltan ; Moeller, Torsten; Gehlenborg, Nils; Sorger, Peter; Pfister, Hanspeter; Beyer, Johanna; Krueger, Robert.

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456406

psudo: Exploring Multi-Channel Biomedical Image Data with Spatially and Perceptually Optimized Pseudocoloring. Computer Graphics Forum 2024.

Warchol, Simon; Troidl, Jakob; Muhlich, Jeremy L.; Krueger, Robert; Hoffer, John; Lin, Tica; Beyer, Johanna; Glassman, Elena; Sorger, Peter Karl; Pfister, Hanspeter.

DOI: 10.1111/cgf.15103

Residency Octree: A Hybrid Approach for Scalable Web-Based Multi-Volume Rendering. IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2023.

Herzberger, Lukas; Hadwiger, Markus; Krüger, Robert; Sorger, Peter; Pfister, Hanspeter; Gröller, Eduard; Beyer, Johanna.

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3327193

Visinity: Visual Spatial Neighborhood Analysis for Multiplexed Tissue Imaging Data. IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2023.

Warchol, Simon*; Krueger, Robert*; Nirmal, Ajit Johnson; Gaglia, Giorgio; Jessup, Jared; Ritch, Cecily C.; Hoffer, John; Muhlich, Jeremy; Burger, Megan; Jacks, Tyler L.; Santagata, Sandro; Sorger, Peter K.; Pfister, Hanspeter. (* shared first-author)

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209355

Lymphocyte networks are dynamic cellular communities in the immunoregulatory landscape of lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer Cell 2023.

Gaglia, Giorgio; Burger, Megan L.; Ritch, Cecily C.; Rammos, Danae; Yang, Dai; Crossland, Grace E.; Tavana, Sara Z.; Warchol, Simon; Jaeger, Alex M.; Naranjo, Santiago; Coy, Shannon; Nirmal, Ajit J.; Krueger, Robert; Lin, Jia-Ren; Pfister, Hanspeter; Sorger, Peter K.; Jacks, Tyler; Santagata, Sandro.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2023.03.015

MITI Minimum Information Guidelines for Highly Multiplexed Tissue Images. Nature Methods 2022.

Schapiro, Dennis; Yapp, Clarence; Sokolov, Artem; Reynolds, S.M.; Chen, Yu-An; Sudar, Damir; et al.

DOI: 10.1038/s41592-022-01415-4

The Pattern is in the Details: An Evaluation of Interaction Techniques for Locating, Searching, and Contextualizing Details in Multivariate Matrix Visualizations. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2022.

Yang, Yalong; Xia, Wenyu; Lekschas, Fritz; Nobre, Caroline; Krueger, Robert; Pfister, Hanspeter.

DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3517673

Narrative online guides for the interpretation of digital-pathology images and tissue-atlas data. Nature Biomedical Engineering 2022.

Rashid, Rumana; Chen, Yu-An; Hoffer, John; Muhlich, Jeremy; Lin, Jia-Ren; Krueger, Robert; Pfister, Hanspeter; Mitchell, Richard; Santagata, Sandro; Sorger, Peter K.

DOI: 10.1038/s41551-021-00789-8

GenNI: Human-AI Collaboration for Data-Backed Text Generation. IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2021.

Strobelt, Hendrik; Jambay, Kinley; Krueger, Robert; Beyer, Johanna; Pfister, Hanspeter; Rush, Alexander M.

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114845

Scope2Screen: Focus+Context Techniques for Pathology Tumor Assessment in Multivariate Image Data. IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2021.

Jessup, Jared*; Krueger, Robert*; Warchol, Simon; Hoffer, John; Muhlich, Jeremy; Ritch, Cecily C.; Gaglia, Giorgio; Coy, Shannon; Chen, Yu-An; Lin, Jia-Ren; Santagata, Sandro; Sorger, Peter K.; Pfister, Hanspeter. (* shared first-author)

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114786

The Human Tumor Atlas Network: charting tumor transitions across space and time at single-cell resolution. Cell 2020.

Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit; et al.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.053

Minerva: a light-weight, narrative image browser for multiplexed tissue images. Journal of Open Source Software 2020.

Hoffer, John; Rashid, Rumana; Muhlich, Jeremy L.; Chen, Yu-An; Russell, Douglas Peter William; Ruokonen, Juha; Krueger, Robert; Pfister, Hanspeter; Santagata, Sandro; Sorger, Peter K.

DOI: 10.21105/joss.02579

Visual Interaction with Deep Learning Models through Collaborative Semantic Inference. IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2020.

Gehrmann, Sebastian; Strobelt, Hendrik; Krüger, Robert; Pfister, Hanspeter; Rush, Alexander M.

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934595

Facetto: Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Learning for Hierarchical Phenotype Analysis in Multi-Channel Image Data. IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2020.

Krüger, Robert; Beyer, Johanna; Jang, Won-Dong; Kim, Nam Wook; Sokolov, Artem; Sorger, Peter K.; Pfister, Hanspeter.

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934547

Bird’s-Eye - Large-Scale Visual Analytics of City Dynamics using Social Location Data. Computer Graphics Forum 2019.

Krüger, Robert; Qi, Han; Ivanov, Nikolay; Mahtal, Sanae; Thom, Dennis; Pfister, Hanspeter; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1111/cgf.13713

Visual Interactive Map Matching. IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2018. (PacificVis Honorable Mention)

Krueger, Robert; Simeonov, Georgi; Beck, Fabian; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2816219

A Visual Analytics Framework for Exploring Theme Park Dynamics. ACM Transaction on Interactive Intelligent Systems 2018.

Steptoe, Michael; Krüger, Robert; Garcia, Rolando; Liang, Xing; Maciejewski, Ross.

DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347639

Can Twitter Save Lives? A Broad-scale Study on Visual Social Media Analytics for Public Safety. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2016.

Thom, Dennis; Krüger, Robert; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2511733

Visual Querying of Semantically Enriched Movement Data. International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2016.

Haag, Florian; Krüger, Robert; Ertl, Thomas.

ISBN: 978-3-319-64870-5

Semantic Enrichment of Movement Behavior with Foursquare – A Visual Analytics Approach. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2015.

Krüger, Robert; Thom, Dennis; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2371856

ScatterBlogs2: Real-Time Monitoring of Microblog Messages Through User-Guided Filtering. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2013.

Bosch, Harald; Thom, Dennis; Heimerl, Florian; Püttmann, Edwin; Koch, Steffen; Krüger, Robert; Wörner, Michael; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.186

TrajectoryLenses – A Set-based Filtering and Exploration Technique for Long-term Trajectory Data. Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2013.

Krüger, Robert; Thom, Dennis; Wörner, Michael; Bosch, Harald; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12132

Conference Publications

Visual Pattern-Driven Exploration of Big Data. IEEE Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA) 2018.

Behrisch, Michael ; Krueger, Robert ; Lekschas, Fritz ; Schreck, Tobias ; Gehlenborg, Nils ; Pfister, Hanspeter.

arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01364

Immersive Modular Factory Layout Planning using Augmented Reality. CIRP-CMS 2018.

Herr, Dominik ; Reinhardt, Jan ; Reina, Guido; Krueger, Robert ; Ferrari, Rafael Villanueva ; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2018.03.200

VESPA 2.0: Data-Driven Behavior Models for Visual Analytics of Movement Sequences. IEEE International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA) 2017 (Best Paper Award).

Krueger, Robert ; Tremel, Tina ; Thom, Dennis.

DOI: 10.1109/BDVA.2017.8114626

VESPa: A Pattern-Based Visual Query Language for Event Sequences. IVAPP 2016 (Best Paper Award).

Haag, Florian ; Krüger, Robert ; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.5220/0005716900480059

TravelDiff: Visual Comparison Analytics for Massive Movement Patterns Derived from Twitter. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis) 2016.

Krüger, Robert ; Sun, Guodao ; Beck, Fabian ; Liang, Ronghua ; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2016.7465266

Data-Driven Exploration of Real-Time Geospatial Text Streams. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2015.

Bosch, Harald ; Krüger, Robert ; Thom, Dennis ; et al.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23461-8_14

Can Twitter really save your Life? A Case Study of Visual Social Media Analytics for Situation Awareness. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis) 2015.

Thom, Dennis ; Krüger, Robert ; Bechstedt, Ulrike ; Platz, Axel ; Zisgen, Julia ; Volland, Bernd ; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2015.7156376

Using Large Scale Aggregated Knowledge for Social Media Location Discovery. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-47) 2014.

Thom, Dennis ; Bosch, Harald ; Krüger, Robert ; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.189

Visual Analysis of Movement Behavior using Web Data for Context Enrichment. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis) 2014 (Best Paper Award).

Krüger, Robert ; Thom, Dennis ; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1109/PacificVis.2014.57

Integrating Predictive Analytics and Social Media. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2014.

Lu, Yafeng ; Krüger, Robert ; Thom, Dennis ; Wang, Feng ; Koch, Steffen ; Ertl, Thomas ; Maciejewski, Ross.

DOI: 10.1145/3162076

Workshop Publications

BioSET – Biomarker-based Spatial co-Expression analysis in Tumor environments. Workshop Bio+MedVis Challenge @ IEEE VIS 2025.

Kalsi, Chahat ; Shen, Yuancheng ; Gaupp, Sophia ; Reichmann, Luca ; Rogava, Meri ; Krone, Michael ; Boorboor, Saeed ; Krüger, Robert.

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Immersive Visual Analytics for Modular Factory Layout Planning. IEEE Workshop on Immersive Analytics 2017.

Herr, Dominik ; Reinhardt, Jan ; Krüger, Robert ; Reina, Guido ; Ertl, Thomas.

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Towards Interaction Techniques for Social Media Data Exploration on Large High-Resolution Displays. ACM CHI EA 2017 (Reviewed Poster).

Lischke, Lars ; Hoffmann, Jan ; Krüger, Robert ; Bader, Patrick ; Woźniak, Paweł W. ; Schmidt, Albrecht.

DOI: 10.1145/3027063.3053229

Engaging People to Participate in Data Collection. UbiComp ’16 Proceedings EA 2016 (Reviewed Poster).

Tobien, Patrick ; Lischke, Lars ; Hirsch, Marco ; Krüger, Robert ; Lukowicz, Paul ; Schmidt, Albrecht.

DOI: 10.1145/2968219.2971420

SaccadeLenses: Interactive Exploratory Filtering of Eye Tracking Trajectories. IEEE Second Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS) 2016.

Krüger, Robert ; Koch, Steffen ; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1109/ETVIS.2016.7851162

VAST Challenge 2015: Grand Challenge – Team VADER/VIS Award for Outstanding Comprehensive Submission. IEEE VAST 2015 (Award).

Steptoe, Michael ; Krüger, Robert ; Zhang, Yifan ; Liang, Xing ; Garcia, Rolando ; Kadambi, Sagarika ; Luo, Wei ; Ertl, Thomas ; Maciejewski, Ross.

DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2015.7347639

Inspector-Gadget: Integrating Data Preprocessing and Orchestration in the Visual Analysis Loop. International Workshop on Visual Analytics EuroVA 2015.

Krüger, Robert ; Herr, Dominik ; Haag, Florian ; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.2312/eurova.20151096

Racecar Tracking and its Visualization Using Sparse Data. 1st IEEE VIS Workshop on Sports Data Visualization 2013.

Stoll, Michael ; Krüger, Robert ; Ertl, Thomas ; Bruhn, Andrés.

Visual Analysis of Social Media Data in Emergency Situations by Aggregating Annotated User Movements. ISCRAM 2013 (Reviewed Poster).

Jäckle, Dominik ; Bosch, Harald ; Thom, Dennis ; Krüger, Robert ; Keim, Daniel A. ; Ertl, Thomas.

Prolix – Visual Prediction Analysis for Box Office Success. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2013 (Honorable Mention).

Krüger, Robert ; Bosch, Harald ; Thom, Dennis ; Püttmann, Edwin ; Han, Qi ; Koch, Steffen ; Heimerl, Florian ; Ertl, Thomas.

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HIVEBEAT – A Highly Interactive Visualization Environment for Broad-Scale Exploratory Analysis and Tracing. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2012 (Honorable Mention).

Krüger, Robert ; Bosch, Harald ; Koch, Steffen ; Müller, Christoph ; Reina, Guido ; Thom, Dennis ; Ertl, Thomas.

DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2012.6400518