Figure 1.

Scheme of the GID client-server system. With a web browser, a program written in Java starts on your computer from the network. This program that receives and sends information is called the client, while the central storage computer is called the server. The server contains a second Java program listening to the client’s calls. It receives the images and annotations and stores them in a temporary folder. In parallel, a program written in Perl language is started every minute to process incoming data, assign an accession number and send a receipt to communicate the accession numbers to the user. The source code of these components of the GID can be obtained by contacting the authors. In the future, the server will call quantification methods to automatically extract information from certain image types.