Core primitives

Study

A high level that holds general metadata about images (who created them, why they were created).

Image

The abstract concept of an image. Images are generated by acquisition by instruments.

Examples:

• A single plane bright-field image of a bacterium.

• A confocal fluorescence image of cells, with two channels.

• A volume EM stack of a cell.

Images are distinct from their representation as files, since the same image can be represented in different file formats and in some cases different file structures.

Image Representation

A particular representation of a BIAImage. Examples:

• A single HTTP accessible file.

• Multiple HTTP accessible files, representing different channels, planes and time points.

• An S3 accessible OME-Zarr.

• A thumbnail.

Annotation

Extra information that adds to supplments existing metadata at the study, image or image representation level.