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SIDB - Scientific Image Data Base
(SIDB)
A web-driven open source database for 2-D and 3-D images specifically designed
for (confocal) microscopy units, but applicable wherever groups of users
collaborate with images.
OpenHealth™ -- Open
source software in health care
Electronic medical records and networks are the solutions to the technical
issues around coordinating the work of diverse health care professionals caring
for a single person across multiple sites. Open source software has potential
to overcome some of the obstacles now being encountered in this transition: 1)
Open source reference implementations of medical record standards could speed
their adoption and increase interoperability in practice. The differences in
adoption between TCP/IP and ISO network protocols illustrate the importance of
reference implementations. 2) Open source software could reduce the issue of
"Who pays?" in community health networks by eliminating per user and per site
license costs and unbundling implementation and support charges.
ASN.1 - Abstract
Syntax Notation One
ASN.1, or Abstract Syntax Notation One, is an International Standards
Organization (ISO) data representation format used to achieve interoperability
between platforms. The
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
uses ASN.1 for the storage and retrieval of data such as nucleotide and protein
sequences, structures, genomes, and MEDLINE records. It permits computers and
software systems of all types to reliably exchange both the data structure and
content. The NCBI Software Development ToolKit (known as the 'NCBI Toolbox') is
a set of software and data exchange specifications used by NCBI to produce
portable, modular software for molecular biology. The software in the Toolbox
is primarily designed to read ASN.1 format records. It is freely available to
the public, and can be used in its own right or as a foundation for building
tools with similar properties.
VISIM: Information
Retrieval and Exploration in Large Medical Image Collections
Visual information systems in medicine (VISIM) are emerging capable of
retrieving items from large collections of images and exploring connections
between them to discover new insights, confirm hypotheses, or search for
similar findings. The advance of these systems is at the crossroads of computer
vision, man-machine interaction and image database technology, invoking many
novel issues that need to be addressed. This one day workshop was held in
Utrecht, NL on October 18, 2001.
Digital Library Technologies (DLT)
The Digital Library Technologies group at the
National Center for Supercomputer
Applications (NCSA) is a continuing effort to develop components of a new
infrastructure for building large-scale digital libraries of distributed,
heterogeneous digital information objects. Components enable digital
information to be used across and within communities by providing
user-configurable tools for formatting, translating, publishing, indexing, and
searching data and metadata. Tools are designed to interoperate using standard
protocols such as the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
and the ISO-standard Z39.50 protocol for information retrieval. The DLT group
is also working with the challenges of community development of data standards
and data use practices.
PEIPA - the Pilot European Image Processing
Archive
PEIPA is an archive of material relating to the processing of images, with an
emphasis on image analysis and computer vision. The archive is supported from
the British Machine Vision Association, the
University of Essex, and the
EU-funded project Performance Characterization in Computer Vision.
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