Design and Implementation of a Web-Based Platform to Support Research in X-Ray Breast Imaging

This paper presents a web-based platform dedicated to evaluation studies in x-ray breast imaging. The backend development is based on ASP.NET and C#, while the frontend is implemented under HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The platform is designed to own simple and intuitive graphical user-friendly interface. Questions to be evaluated are entered by the users and stored in the application database. In the same database, two other features are kept as well: the results of the evaluation and the regions of interest taken from patient and simulated mammography images. The content of the database is subject to modification, as well as further addition of data. The designed web-based platform was tested in a particular evaluation study, which concerned the realism of the generated simulated mammograms from computational breast models. The new approach in evaluating images was estimated to be more convenient and faster compared to our previous experience. The system will be further updated and will be exploited in the routine research work of the laboratory as well as will be shared with other research groups.