Title :
An object relational approach to biomedical database
Author :
Sheu, Philhp C Y ; Cummings, Brian ; Cotman, Carl ; Chubb, Charlie ; Hu, L. ; Wang, T. ; Johnson, Julene ; Mobley, Scott ; Stitch, Tom ; Inagaki, Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
Abstract :
As neuroscience research advances, there is an increasing need to integrate data from a single patient who has undergone multiple levels of analysis. In a biomedical application (such as an Alzheimer´s clinic), a patient might have medical data, MRI data, cognitive data and autopsy data all collected at various times. This paper introduces “BioCompose”, an object-relational database system that integrates clinical, neuropathological and image data sets into a uniform framework with a simple user interface. It addresses the advantages of taking an object-relational approach for a large and complex application
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; medical image processing; medical information systems; neurophysiology; object-oriented databases; relational databases; user interfaces; visual databases; Alzheimer´s disease; BioCompose; MRI; autopsy data; biomedical database; clinical data sets; cognitive data; complex application; data integration; image data sets; medical data; neuropathological data sets; neuroscience; object-relational database system; uniform framework; user interface; Bioinformatics; Biomedical computing; Biomedical imaging; Image databases; Information retrieval; Medical diagnostic imaging; Object oriented databases; Pathology; Relational databases; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0862-6
DOI :
10.1109/BIBE.2000.889594
