relatively easy to look at a thumbnail and know what organ was imaged, but not
the mouse’s age, sex, or diet. This all-crucial context can be recorded in a variety
of ways: image name, description, dataset, or classifications. Users can
exploit this context information using keyword matching to carve out image
subsets in which they are interested. OME provides interfaces (Fig. 18.6) to
search by image free-text annotations, structured meta-data, datasets, or
classifications.
As the volume of managed images grows, the number of images that can
be displayed becomes an even smaller fraction of all images stored. This is
partially due to the computational overhead involved in presenting images
and partially due to finite screen area, but the ultimate constraint ...