Figure 3

The four components of the CVOPOF and the relationships between them. The first component is the VPhenoO (in green), which is the organization of semantic concepts related to phenotype descriptions. This includes everything from species identifiers to qualitative descriptors to quantitative measurements. The quantitative measurements correspond to sets of ranges of measurements, and the linkages between these layers are computed via the semantic mapping interface (in yellow). The imagery and algorithm ontology (in blue) hierarchically relates terms related to images, algorithms, and measurements. The final component, the computational pipeline (in black), defines the imaging protocol and processing plan for phenotype images. It is constructed using terms from the imagery and algorithms ontology, and the measurements it produces provides the input that allows the semantic mapping interface to compute association rules linking measurements to semantic concepts.