Scopira: an open source C++ framework for biomedical data analysis applications |
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Authors: | Aleksander B. Demko Nick J. Pizzi |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada;2. Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada |
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Abstract: | In many biomedical research laboratories, data analysis and visualization algorithms are typical prototypes using an interpreted programming language. If performance becomes an issue, they are ported to C and integrated with interpreted systems, not fully utilizing object‐oriented software development. This paper presents an overview of Scopira, an open source C++ framework suitable for biomedical data analysis and visualization. Scopira provides high‐performance end‐to‐end application development features, in the form of an extensible C++ library. This library provides general programming utilities, numerical matrices and algorithms, parallelization facilities, and graphical user interface elements. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Keywords: | data analysis visualization software engineering application development framework distributed computing |
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