imagej centric application?

Posted by Zummy on Aug 20, 2005; 1:44am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/imagej-centric-application-tp3705008.html

ImageJ list:

My understanding from my boss is that he wants me
to explore making ImageJ one of the main parts of our
application.  Right now, we just send images to ImageJ
through the ImageJ API.

We have a view only application that has a large relational
database behind it.  Domain specific features shown as as
circles, points, boxes, lines appear in x,y coordinates on the
images.  These features are tracked through a spatial coordinate,
z, and also through time.  The images are classified with a variety
of attributes, and we need to provide better ways of searching for
images and image sets.  We would like to load partial sets, but
allow for navigation to the rest of the set (lazy loading).  Also,
we have graphs, tables, and metadata that we would like to show
in the application.

We are interested in image frameworks that make heavy use of
the relational databases.  How well does ImageJ integrate with
images delivered over the web from a database or file, as well as direct
JDBC connection to the database?  Are there example database
schemas or frameworks for dealing with image and relational
data like the above?

A possible future might be that user's will want to save images
they've worked on back to the database, in a user area.

So I will be investigating the use of ImageJ with these features
in mind.  Any help or guidance in the API or ideas would be
appreciated.  If I were to develop an application using ImageJ
as a core, what extension APIs should I be looking at?

John