a similar manner as raw pixels but have different semantic meanings. Utilizing
SemanticTypes’ support of specialization, each new type of computational
pixels can be defined as its own new SemanticType that also ‘‘is-a’’ Pixels.
OME SemanticTypes are being used in other independent projects, including
the Bio-Image Semantic Query User Environment [24] and the BioSig Imaging
Bioinformatics Framework [25].
18.4.3 Data Management Software with
Plug-in Ontologies
Informatics platforms store data with an inherent structure. This structure can
be implicit and simple; for example, in software for managing consumer photo-
graphs, the data structure is something like: albums have images and images
comprise name, pixels, and time stamp. Ontologies can be used