Early steps of an ontology for magnetic resonance imaging: MRIO

The Magnetic Resonance Imaging Ontology (MRIO) is an application ontology that represents numerous entities in the domain of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) including MRI analysis and MRI sequences. Data from clinical trials MRI protocols were used to create the axioms of these MRI sequences. We have also created means for automatically loading MRI headers as new ontology instances and demonstrate the ability to query data in MRIO. The current work represents the beginnings of a full-fledged imaging ontology and automated analysis pipeline, which we plan to further develop. Future iterations of the project will include a stream-lined user-interface for querying and improved capability in classifying image types.