1. Internet Analysis Tools Registry (IATR) A Public Resource for Image Analysis Tools AND An Instance of an Ontology Problem Center for Morphometric Analysis, MGH/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, HST/MGH/MIT David N. Kennedy

2. Overview  IATR Website Review  Existing Tool ‘Proto-Ontology’ (i.e. keywords)  Proposed Expanded Tool Ontology  Now what??? See also: Kennedy & Haselgrove, The Internet Analysis Tools Registry: A Public Resource for Image Analysis, Neuroinformatics, In Press, 2006. See Preprint at: http://na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/SDIWG:NCBC_Software_Classification#IATR

3. IATR Home http://www.cma.mgh.harvard.edu/iatr

4. IATR Example Tool Description Issues: Keeping up to date Application List Contact URLs Platforms etc. Completeness

5. IATR Schema

6. Tool Description Framework

7. Current System-Supplied Tool Function Keywords Atlas: Delivers an atlas or supports atlas-based interpretation of images. Functional: Supports functional image analysis. Microscopy: Supports analysis of microscopy images. Registration: Supports image registration. Surface analysis: Supports surface-based analysis Statistical: Supports statistical inference and analysis. Segmentation: Supports segmentation analysis. Visualization: Provides a significant visualization capability. Volume: A tool that provides volumetric analysis. Warping: Supports warping spatial transformations.

8. Tool Function Keywords

9. Towards a Software Tool Ontology Image is_a type DerivedImage instance_of Image DerivedImage created_from Image DerivedImage created_by SoftwareTool SoftwareTool has_a tool_creator has_a tool_function has_a operating_system has_a funding_source etc.

10. Towards a Software Tool Ontology ImageEntity (ImageFeature) is_a type ImageEntity created_from Image ImageEntity created_by AnalysisProcess Observation (or Finding) created by AnalysisProcess SoftwareTool instance_of AnalysisProcess RadiologicalRead instance_of AnalysisProcess

11. Towards a Software Tool Ontology 3DSlicer instance_of SoftwareTool BWH instance_of tool_creator Visualization instance_of tool_function NCBC_NA-MIC instance_of funding_source Linux instance_of operating_system 3DSlicer has_function Visualization has_creator BWH has_funding NCBC_NA-MIC has_operating_system Linux

12. Proposed Tool Description Hierarchy

17. Now What??? Community Vetting Integration w/ Other Efforts Compliance/Usability Issues Other Issues

18. Draft Ontology From Rubin, Musen, Dinov, et al. of the SDIWG