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Designing object-oriented interfaces for medical data repositories
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | McCormick, Patrick J. |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | Repositories of medical data are predominately limited to crude interfaces that limit the flexibility of data mining applications and interactive query tools. This thesis explores different methods for providing an object-oriented query interface to a complex data source, with an emphasis on medical and genetic databases. This project designed a query interface to meet the goals of simplicity and extensibility. The query interface is intended to provide object-oriented access to any data source. Various methods and technologies were used in the design process, including CORBA and XML. A prototype server was implemented using the Java programming language to demonstrate generalized access to object-relational and relational databases. A prototype client was implemented as a Java Web Servlet to demonstrate the distributed nature of the interface. These prototypes were tested against a large database of magnetic resonance images using the DICOM information schema. We found that the system provides simple access to complex information schemas and is a useful tool for exploiting complex structured data, specifically in the medical and genetic domains. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/80549/43551780-MIT.pdf?sequence=2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
