Imaging ontology white paper

1. Scope: Quantitative/Computational Analysis of Histological Imaging Data Computational Pathology Ontology (Name???)

2. Examples of queries which need answers

3. How ontologies have helped

4. Strategy for creating an ontology

5. Background framework/principles: OBO Foundry

6. Existing starting points? OME, QIBO, NIST, Annotation Ontology … others

7. Relation to DICOM

8. The role of OBI

9. First sketch of how the ontology will look and be used

10. Open problems and future directions