Visual ontology-based query approach for data access in heterogeneous expertise environment: Application in plm biomedical imaging

The volume and complexity of Biomedical Imaging (BMI) data can be handled by well-known Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions if a research study in this field is modeled as a cyclic process of four phases: study specifications; raw data acquisition; data processing and results publication. However, current PLM systems do not provide easy, flexible and user-adapted data access, especially in the context of heterogeneity expertise environments such as BMI. This paper presents VAQUERO (VisuAlization and QUERy based Ontology), a visual ontology-based data query approach, that aims at providing different kinds of users in the BMI field (common/external, domain expert and technical users) with easy self-access to their data stored in a PLM Teamcenter system. © 2020 CAD Solutions, LLC.