Sports medicine research is a developing field which uses a processed combination of videos, force data, and accelerometer data. In radiology data is processed within the radiology workflow before being stored in PACS. Both processed and raw data can be uploaded to a central database. Currently, in the biomechanics workflow this data must be processed by researchers on local computers. There is currently no centralized method to process this data, each researcher must use unique scripts which require specific computer environments. Also, once data has been stored in a central database there is no method to query that data for further processing. Processed data is a valuable tool for researchers to educate athletes and coaches. Therefore, there is a need for a central, standardized system which can process data within the biomechanics workflow. The integrated biomechanics informatics system (IBIS) is an ideal choice for this system as it already provides a centralized database used by biomechanics researchers. Using an imaging-informatics approach we have developed a web application which allows users to query, retrieve, and process data on the IBIS system. The web application’s efficacy will be measured by testing expert and novice users on the speed and ease of using the web application and comparing the results of web processing to local processing. In the future this web application can be extended to host multiple types of biomechanics data processing on the IBIS system.
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