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The purpose of image processing systems is to extract information from image
data. Systems which are designed to treat large numbers of images must also be
able to analyse the data extracted from the images. The standard Database
Management Systems (DBMS) provide many of the facilities needed; however, some
of the desired interactive graphics, statistics, and mathematics are not
always available. Therefore, a dedicated table system has been made to serve
these purposes in MIDAS (Grosbøl and Ponz, 1985,
Mem.S.A.It., 56, 429).
The use of tables can be divided into three main categories: internal,
external, and user applications. One of the advantages of the MIDAS Table
System (MTS) is that tables for these different purposes have the same
structure and can be treated with the same set of routines. The three
categories are discussed separately, although there is some overlap in the
applications.
Petra Nass
3/23/1999