MetaDataEditor - Collecting and Storing Medical Metadata

Aim

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.

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
Status
finished

 

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.

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

Downloads

  >> Download MetaDataEditor v1.0
Filename: MetaDataEditor_v1.0.zip
Needed application: Java JRE 1.4.2
Size: 7 MB