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

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

98

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0862-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIBE.2000.889594

Filename

889594