SBIR PHASE I - TOPIC 426 - TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR VISUALIZING MULTI-SCALE DATA

这项工作使以交互式数据地图集的形式共享复杂信息成为可能。该地图集使研究人员能够将大型异构数据组织成一种形式，可以通过web浏览器轻松查看、探索、分析和传播，即使数据分布在多台计算机和云资源上。特别是，该图谱旨在表示跨多个尺度的生物数据，范围从地理上分散的种群信息，到组织的组织学切片，细胞片段和基因组信息。通过将这些数据规模组合成一个易于导航的图谱，医疗保健研究人员将能够对癌症的发展产生新的理解，并最终为治疗这种疾病创造新的治疗方案和疗法。建议的工作建立在现有的、经过验证的开源工具的基础上，以创建一个新的软件框架来提供多尺度语义缩放，并结合交互式方法来可视化和处理选定感兴趣区域的数据。

This work enables the sharing of complex information in the form of an interactive data atlas. The atlas enables researchers to organize large, heterogeneous data into a form that can be easily viewed, explored, analyzed, and disseminated through a web browser, even when the data is distributed across multiple computers and cloud resources. In particular, the atlas is designed to represent biological data across multiple scales, ranging from geographically dispersed population information, through histological sections of tissue, cell segmentations, and genomic information. By combining these data scales into an easy-to-navigate atlas, healthcare researchers will be able to develop new understandings of the development of cancer, and ultimately create new treatment protocols and therapies for the treatment of the disease. The proposed work builds upon existing, proven open source tools to create a new software framework to provide multi-scale semantic zoom, coupled with interactive methods to visualize and process data in selected regions of interest.