Biomedical imaging ontologies: A survey and proposal for future work

• Main Authors: Barry Smith (Author), Sivaram Arabandi (Author), Mathias Brochhausen (Author), Michael Calhoun (Author), Paolo Ciccarese (Author), Scott Doyle (Author), Bernard Gibaud (Author), Ilya Goldberg (Author), Charles E Kahn (Author), James Overton (Author), John Tomaszewski (Author), Metin Gurcan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Ontology is one strategy for promoting interoperability of heterogeneous data through consistent tagging. An ontology is a controlled structured vocabulary consisting of general terms (such as "cell" or "image" or "tissue" or "microscope") that for...