Title
A metadata-aware application for remote scoring and exchange of tissue microarray images.
Abstract
The use of tissue microarrays (TMA) and advances in digital scanning microscopy has enabled the collection of thousands of tissue images. There is a need for software tools to annotate, query and share this data amongst researchers in different physical locations.We have developed an open source web-based application for remote scoring of TMA images, which exploits the value of Microsoft Silverlight Deep Zoom to provide a intuitive interface for zooming and panning around digital images. We use and extend existing XML-based standards to ensure that the data collected can be archived and that our system is interoperable with other standards-compliant systems.The application has been used for multi-centre scoring of TMA slides composed of tissues from several Phase III breast cancer trials and ten different studies participating in the International Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). The system has enabled researchers to simultaneously score large collections of TMA and export the standardised data to integrate with pathological and clinical outcome data, thereby facilitating biomarker discovery.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1186/1471-2105-14-147
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
internet
Data mining,Metadata,XML,Information retrieval,Computer science,Software,Tissue Array Analysis,Tissue microarray,Bioinformatics,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.38
6
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lorna Morris1535.20
Andrew Tsui2203.03
Charles Crichton31019.36
Steve Harris4557.37
Peter Maccallum591.14
William J. Howat660.72
Jim Davies767380.95
James Brenton8474.14
Carlos Caldas991.14