{"title":"ALBA:用于生物医学应用的敏捷库","authors":"Gianluigi Crimi , Nicola Vanella , Enrico Schileo , Giordano Valente , Giulia Fraterrigo , Fulvia Taddei","doi":"10.1016/j.softx.2025.102188","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Efficient and unified software tools to manage the complex imaging and modelling workflows needed for computational biomechanics research are lacking. The Agile Library for Biomedical Applications (ALBA) is an open-source C++ versatile framework that handles various data types (e.g. 2D and 3D images, surfaces, finite element models, point clouds, motion analysis data), and offers an easily extensible platform for the rapid development of specialised applications that can manage, visualise, and manipulate biomedical data. The already available functionalities have been developed in the context of computational biomechanics, quantitative image analysis and pre-operative planning in orthopaedics. Software applications built with ALBA attracted the interest of the scientific community and are currently used, both inside and outside the original research group, in finite element modelling of bones and musculoskeletal modelling. The further ALBA adoption by other centres might increase the spread of a positive attitude towards open and reproducible research in the biomechanical community and increase the sharing of algorithms and data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21905,"journal":{"name":"SoftwareX","volume":"31 ","pages":"Article 102188"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"ALBA: Agile library for biomedical applications\",\"authors\":\"Gianluigi Crimi , Nicola Vanella , Enrico Schileo , Giordano Valente , Giulia Fraterrigo , Fulvia Taddei\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.softx.2025.102188\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><div>Efficient and unified software tools to manage the complex imaging and modelling workflows needed for computational biomechanics research are lacking. The Agile Library for Biomedical Applications (ALBA) is an open-source C++ versatile framework that handles various data types (e.g. 2D and 3D images, surfaces, finite element models, point clouds, motion analysis data), and offers an easily extensible platform for the rapid development of specialised applications that can manage, visualise, and manipulate biomedical data. The already available functionalities have been developed in the context of computational biomechanics, quantitative image analysis and pre-operative planning in orthopaedics. Software applications built with ALBA attracted the interest of the scientific community and are currently used, both inside and outside the original research group, in finite element modelling of bones and musculoskeletal modelling. The further ALBA adoption by other centres might increase the spread of a positive attitude towards open and reproducible research in the biomechanical community and increase the sharing of algorithms and data.</div></div>\",\"PeriodicalId\":21905,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"SoftwareX\",\"volume\":\"31 \",\"pages\":\"Article 102188\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":2.4000,\"publicationDate\":\"2025-05-16\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"SoftwareX\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"94\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711025001554\",\"RegionNum\":4,\"RegionCategory\":\"计算机科学\",\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"Q2\",\"JCRName\":\"COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SoftwareX","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711025001554","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING","Score":null,"Total":0}
Efficient and unified software tools to manage the complex imaging and modelling workflows needed for computational biomechanics research are lacking. The Agile Library for Biomedical Applications (ALBA) is an open-source C++ versatile framework that handles various data types (e.g. 2D and 3D images, surfaces, finite element models, point clouds, motion analysis data), and offers an easily extensible platform for the rapid development of specialised applications that can manage, visualise, and manipulate biomedical data. The already available functionalities have been developed in the context of computational biomechanics, quantitative image analysis and pre-operative planning in orthopaedics. Software applications built with ALBA attracted the interest of the scientific community and are currently used, both inside and outside the original research group, in finite element modelling of bones and musculoskeletal modelling. The further ALBA adoption by other centres might increase the spread of a positive attitude towards open and reproducible research in the biomechanical community and increase the sharing of algorithms and data.
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SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today''s research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact. To this end, SoftwareX aims to support publication of research software in such a way that: The software is given a stamp of scientific relevance, and provided with a peer-reviewed recognition of scientific impact; The software developers are given the credits they deserve; The software is citable, allowing traditional metrics of scientific excellence to apply; The academic career paths of software developers are supported rather than hindered; The software is publicly available for inspection, validation, and re-use. Above all, SoftwareX aims to inform researchers about software applications, tools and libraries with a (proven) potential to impact the process of scientific discovery in various domains. The journal is multidisciplinary and accepts submissions from within and across subject domains such as those represented within the broad thematic areas below: Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Medical and Biological Sciences; Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Originating from these broad thematic areas, the journal also welcomes submissions of software that works in cross cutting thematic areas, such as citizen science, cybersecurity, digital economy, energy, global resource stewardship, health and wellbeing, etcetera. SoftwareX specifically aims to accept submissions representing domain-independent software that may impact more than one research domain.