Collecting and Storing Medical Metadata

 MetaDataEditor Application Window
Team  Gerhard Glos, Vienna University of Technology, Student, Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang Aigner, Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive System, Vienna, Austria
Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive System, Vienna, Austria
 
Contact Person  Gerhard Glos

 
Project  MetaDataEditor is a graphical user interface for collecting metadata enhancing medical readings. The collected Data is stored in an XML based database, from which it can later be retrieved.

MetaDataEditor uses a prototypical XML-based framework which allows gathering following metadata concerning:
- Name, Short Term, Description of the measured parameters
- Physical Unit, Data Format in which the parameters are measured and stored
- Semantical Grouping, Hierarchical Structuring between the paramerters
- Dependencies between parameters
- Context Sensitive Normal values and Valid Values of parameters
- Context Definitions defining if a Context is valid
MetaDataEditor provides a parameter-centered view on the various domains of metadata stored in the framework. Moreover it serves the user with cross-referenced dialogs to semantically connected data, together with a concise tree view displaying hierarchical structures, as well as traditional table oriented views and access to the data.
 
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MetaDataEditor application window

MetaDataEditor application window
  		Data Enhancement Concept

Data Enhancement Concept
 

Table Oriented View

Table Oriented View
Papers  Glos, G.; Aigner, W.; Miksch, S.: Design und Implementierung eines Metadaten Editors für medizinische Daten - MetaDataEditor V1.0 (in German), Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna, Technical Report Asgaard-TR-2005-7, 2005.
 
Glos, G.: Entwicklung einer Informationsarchitektur für Metadaten in der Medizin, Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna, Technical Report Asgaard-TR-2004-2, 2004.
 
Related Work  Thomas Nocke, Heidrun Schuhmann: Meta Data for Visual Data Mining; Proceedings Computer Graphics and Imaging, CGIM 2002, Kaua'i, Hawaii, USA, August, 2002

Davor Gornik, Entity Relationship Modeling with UML; Rational Software, IBM, 06.11.2003

 
Downloads 
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Filename: MetaDataEditor_v1.0.zip
Needed application: Java JRE 1.4.2
 Size: 7 MB
Time to download: approx. 20 min
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