The basic idea
AIDA brings an open source web-based work-flow to image annotation.
Currently, in the biomedical imaging space, image annotation is largely confined to shrink-wrapped software on a single computer with limited interactive capabilities and few, usually closed, data formats.
AIDA is a web interface that enables distributed teams of researchers to directly annotate images with easy to use on screen drawing tools. AIDA supports the creation of well defined annotation protocols which include a series of images and a specific set of annotation tasks.
How has it been implemented?
The user interface is a React Single Page Application built on the NextJS framework. The application uses OpenLayers to manipulate and annotate high resolution deep-zoom images.
What's planned?
The software is published as Open Source under the permissive MIT license.
The next stage of development will be to integrate intelligent tools that leverage the power of machine learning techniques. We hope to enhance the ability of the user to quickly and accurately mark up images through predictive assistance.
About
This is a project of Alan Aberdeen with contributions from Stefano Malacrino, Nasullah Khalid Alham and Ramón Casero. It originated at the Quantitative Biological Imaging Group, The University of Oxford.