Introduction

What is XamFlow?

• A system for the handling of full image analysis workflows.

• A platform for basically any kind of image processing software.

• A scalable client-server system with a central database.

• Suitable for both small and large studies.

• Available on Windows, and processing also on Linux.

• It is designed to work with any image modalities and formats.

What are workflows?

• Workflows are graphs of interactive tasks and automatic processing tasks.

• They can be applied to an arbitrary number of images or other objects.

• Interactive tasks are user-friendly for manual steps that need to be performed. For example:

  • Selecting a volume-of-interest in an image.

  • Drawing a contour.

  • Approving a result.

• Processing tasks can use and mix any image processing libraries. For example:

  • NumPy

  • SciPy

  • ITK

  • OpenCV

  • TensorFlow

  • R

  • MATLAB

  • ImageJ

  • CUDA

  • Custom scripts or compiled code in any language

  • …

• Processing tasks can be executed in parallel, distributing the workload on multiple nodes.

• Workflow results can be viewed and analyzed directly or exported to external systems.

• All parameters and results are retained for traceability purposes and easily accessible.