Using grid technologies to face medical image analysis challenges

  • Authors:
  • J. Montagnat;V. Breton;I. E. Magnin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CCGRID '03 Proceedings of the 3st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The availability of digital imagers inside hospitalsand their ever growing inspection capabilities have establisheddigital medical images as a key component ofmany pathologies diagnosis, follow-up and treatment.To face the growing image analysis requirements, automatedmedical image processing algorithms have beendeveloped over the two past decades.In parallel, medicalimage databases have been set up in health centers.Some attempts have been made to cross data comingfrom different origins for studies involving largedatabases.Grid technologies appear to be a promisingtool to face the raising challenges of computationalmedicine.They offer wide area access to distributeddatabases in a secured environment and they bring thecomputational power needed to complete some largescale statistical studies involving image processing.Inthis paper, we review grid-related requirements of medicalapplication that we illustrate through two real examples.