In microscopy, the visual content of images varies greatly, depending on the
experiment, and experiments vary greatly between preceptors and laboratories.
Thus there cannot exist a single complete ontology, such as SNOMED, for
describing all information that can be extracted from a microscopy image.
Instead, a standardized data model can exist that will allow researchers to define
their own ontologies specific to an individual experiment or analysis. The image
management software would parse the ontology definitions and adapt to the
new information types. This is the approach undertaken with the OME
‘‘SemanticType’’ Data Model and OME platform [4].
18.4.2 Building Ontologies with OME
SemanticTypes
OME SemanticTypes are an XML-based specification language ...