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Thanks, Will. <br>
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Ideas for missing search features: First, some traditional
functions:<br>
<ul>
<li>IMAGE TYPE, e.g. time series, stack, multi-channel...; maybe
even specifying a specific range (number of channels or time
points)<br>
</li>
<li>METADATA SEARCH, e.g. a specific microscope, lens or
excitation laser; would also help with the above (e.g. search
for "confocal images with the 2 channels GFP+DAPI"<br>
</li>
<li>ADVANCED SEARCH, i.e. the user can search for different things
in different fields, PUBMED-style</li>
</ul>
And then an idea that came from one of our users, saying the typical
situation is having an image and wanting to find related ones, but
not remembering how to search for them (I seem to remember this has
already been discussed at OME meetings):<br>
<ul>
<li>SIMILAR IMAGES: some of this functionality would be covered by
METADATA and IMAGE TYPE search above, but an additional feature
that sounds doable is mean and standard deviation of intensities</li>
</ul>
I know this last idea opens a whole new world of complexity, and
also workload for servers if calculated automatically (although once
done, it would only be two more numbers per frame to store), but
maybe one or a few of the scripting aficionados could help with
this? Would it be possible to run a script on a dataset calculating
such values and adding them to the metadata? Long-term, the ideal
situation would be to have a tick box on data import to do this
calculation if wanted, and a script to do it later if not ticked on
import.<br>
<br>
Obviously there is no limit to ideas, in an ideal world (now still
dream land), analysis results could be linked to images and allow
searches like "images with >100 cells" or "cells with
'roundness>1.5'. And in a world where photographic cameras take
pictures when people smile, it's not inconceivable to have basic
analysis like counting nuclei on import. But that's something after
version 4.5 (and 5) - maybe someone in the community wants to have a
play?<br>
<br>
Good work,<br>
<br>
Martin<br>
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