Table 2.

Design objectives for translational morphomics software

Design objective	Rationale
Clinician-friendly, goal-directed interface	Clinicians may not have the time and technical know-how required to use professional medical image analysis software.
Cross-platform support, minimal or no install required	Researchers and clinicians collaborating on morphomics projects across institutions are likely to work in different computer system environments. Clinicians may be performing measurements on work machines where MIA software has not been installed.
Extensibility via cloud-enabled plugins	A flexible plugin interface enables application of the software to a wider variety of use cases, and cloud abilities facilitate the processing of large datasets.
Free license and open source codebase	An open-source codebase and reuse-friendly license contributes to project sustainability by allowing contributions from other researchers.