To reconcile the cultural gap, today's interactive data visualization and future advanced data processing must be interlinked. GUI-based visualization tools could open up by establishing plug-in mechanisms to exchange data and visualization items with external modules. An alternative route, that circumvents the GUI integration challenges, is to follow the successful model in computational material science : focus on input/output data format normalization, and employ separate tools that work with these formats for analysis and visualization, all coupled together by a managing framework, see Figure . Further efforts to standardize input, but more importantly for recurring output such as classification signatures, segmentation maps, interface location, geometric shape information, etc. are urgently needed.