JISCMIRAGE 2011:

Repository Enrichment from Archiving to Creation

Dr. Xiaohhong (Sharon) Gao

Middlesex UniversityLondon

NW4 4BT

x.gao@mdx.ac.uk

Repository @ http://image.mdx.ac.uk/vin/demo.php.

JISCContents

• Background• Project aims & objectives• Project plan• Summary

JISCBackground (1)

Built on MIRAGE – Middlesex medical Image Repository with a CBIR ArchivinG Environment .

Strand : Start-up RepositoryBetween April 2009- Sept. 2010.Accommodating: 100,000 2D images and 100 3D images

JISCBackground (2) – MIRAGE Phase1 Web page

JISCBackground (3) – Repository -- connection

JISCBackground (3) – Repository-- interface

JISCBackground (3) – Query

Query

JISCBackground (3) – Retrieved results

JISCBackground (3) – Limitations (1)

1. Viewing of 3D images in 2D way – brain images

Computed Tomography Magnetic Resonance Positron Emission tomography (CT) (MR) (PET)

JISCBackground (3) – Limitations (1)1. At Repository interface

Montage

JISCBackground (3) – Limitations (2)

2. Uploading image

JISCMRIAGE 2011 – Aims

• MRIAGE Phase 1 – from Creation to Archiving (Done )

• MIRAGE 2011 – from Archiving to CreationAim

• To enrich the current repository MIRAGE with two necessities to meet users’ needs, leading to a sustainable, usable and flexible model of data management.

JISCMIRAGE 2011 –Objectives

Objectives

• A review report on the feasibility of enrichment of MIRAGE.• Embedding Visualization Toolkit• Development of a plug-in for uploading queries• Evaluation report• Six-monthly interim reports

JISCMIRAGE 2011 –Objective - 1

• Embedding Visualization Toolkit

At server side, visual content extraction will be performed and will be included into the existing feature database.

At client side, 3D viewer built on VTK is expected to be incorporated to display 3D (or higher) images.

JISCMIRAGE 2011 –Objective -1

• Embedding Visualization Toolkit – An Example

JISCMIRAGE 2011 –Objective -2

• Development of a plug-in for uploading queries

Will integrate various types of textual metadata and ontology in addition to image data.

C:\\myfile\brain.jpg

Brain tumour

Upload images

Text search

JISCMIRAGE 2011 – Project Plan

WP1: Literature review (2 months).

WP2: 3D Viewer embedding from server side (1 month).

WP3: 3D Viewer embedding from client side (2 months).

WP4: Enabling uploading facility (2 months)

WP5: System evaluation (1 month).

WP6: Dissemination.

WP7: Management

JISCMIRAGE 2011 – Project Plan – WP1

WP1: Literature review (2 months).

The state of the art web technologies (e.g., RDF metadata, SPARQl-to-SQL translation, OWL, DL, XML, Java3D).

Standards and applications in relation to management of images with a focus on higher dimensional (>2D).

Interfacing with one of the existing open source software for visualization and analysis tools, such as ImageJ, 3D Slicer, MIPAV, ParaView and Amira is anticipated.

JISCMIRAGE 2011 – Project Plan – WP2

WP2: 3D Viewer embedding from server side (1 month).

Visualization Tool Kit (VTK) will be embedded into GIFT server side

On the other hand, GIFT provides a PluginMaker directory including Accessor plug-in and Query processor plug-in that can be filled with in-house code to create an extended/modified query engine, which boils down to writing classes in C++ language.

JISCMIRAGE 2011 – Project Plan – WP3

WP3: 3D Viewer embedding from client side (2 months).

By providing JavaScript objects to communicate with remote web interfaces, allowing users to perform complex remote visualization processing in the server side while viewing the results locally.

Coding PHP client within GIFT framework.

JISCMIRAGE 2011 – Project Plan – WP3 –by Amira

JISCMIRAGE 2011 – Project Plan – WP4

WP4: Enabling uploading facility (2 months)

Using the client-server communication protocol MRML.

Drawn from XML, MRML protocol with a formal editable specification DTD (document type definition) can be adopted by GIFT with a certain degree of extension.

JISCMIRAGE 2011 – Project Plan – WP5

WP4: System evaluation (1 month).

The statistic methods

structured surveys

workshops

presentations.

JISCMIRAGE 2011 – Project Plan – WP6 & WP7

WP6: Dissemination.

Web site Publications Presentation.

WP7: Management

Will be the responsibility of EIS.

JISCSummary

The role a successful repository plays serves two ways, which is from creation to archive and back.

It is anticipated that MIRAGE 2011 will enrich the repository to live up to its full potentials.

Repository @ http://image.mdx.ac.uk/vin/demo.php.

JISCThanks !

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