Fig. 3

Entity relationship diagram (ERD) of the proposed integration model. The final entity relationship diagram manually created with MySQL Workbench software and representing the data model proposed to integrate imaging data into standard biobanks, in which the imaging part is linked to the MIABIS core. This is the structural diagram typically used in informatics to visualise the database design idea, with the tables representing the entities, with a set of attributes describing each entity, and the links representing the relationships among the entities. It is just used as visual support of the structure we want to use for data description, but it gives an idea of the complexity of the model