Medical Image Analysis and Browsing Environment

The long-term objective of this project is to build an extensible, user- friendly portable and affoimage analysis software environment. With this environment the user can rapidly implement and test nalgorithms for the large number of medical imaging modalities in existence. Such an environment woulsharing of knowledge, data and algorithms as well as providing groupware capabilities for collaboratWe will build an environment that seamlessly integrates a variety of components in a distributed envobjectives. These components include an advanced object-oriented fourth-generation language; a Graph(GUI) that can easily be extended or modified; an object-relational database management system to sumanagement and query (based on image attributes, patient information, image content and other informdatabases of image and other data; extensive software libraries for image processing and statisticalanalyses; and advanced 2-D and 3-D visualization capabilities. The system will be easily extensibleprogrammers using high- level tools.