Figure 2.

The software architecture of TeraStitcher. The architecture of the proposed TeraStitcher tool is composed by four modules organized in three layers with growing abstraction levels. At the lowest abstraction level, the IOManager and XML modules contain input/output routines for data and metadata, respectively. The middle layer contains the VolumeManager module, which is responsible to model data organization and to access both data and metadata through functionalities provided by the lower layer. At the top layer, the Stitcher module implements the stitching pipeline.