HOPE, an open platform for medical data management on the grid

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Implementation of a Grid-based telemedicine platform

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A telemedicine platform for information and image management on the grid

Demo, Abstracts BookThe medical field offers a wide and challenging scenario in which new gridapplications can be developed to improve collaborative work between scientists.The development of grid-based medical applications needs to take into accountsome key factors such as the need to conform to strict legal constraints in termsof data privacy and security. Moreover physicians are quite reluctant to use newapplications that change their way of working, for this reason applicationsdeveloped on this context need to be as intuitive and user friendly as possible

Geant4 simulations using grid computing

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Grid based telemedecine application for Gate Monte Carlo dosimetric studies

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Grid based telemedicine application for Monte Carlo dosimetric studies

Nowadays the need for communication facilities between physicians located in different hospitals far from each other is a growing request. Remote consulting is even more important for places where specialist consulting are expensive and difficult to achieve (for example places with poor transportation facilities). The aim of this project is to provide physicians an easy to use medical platform that allow to easily exchange medical information and, using Grid resources, give them the possibility to run complex Monte Carlo simulations used in cancer diagnosti

mantisGRID: a grid platform for DICOM medical images management in Colombia and Latin America.

This paper presents the mantisGRID project, an interinstitutional initiative from Colombian medical and academic centers aiming to provide medical grid services for Colombia and Latin America. The mantisGRID is a GRID platform, based on open source grid infrastructure that provides the necessary services to access and exchange medical images and associated information following digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) and health level 7 standards. The paper focuses first on the data abstraction architecture, which is achieved via Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI) services and supported by the Globus Toolkit. The grid currently uses a 30-Mb bandwidth of the Colombian High Technology Academic Network, RENATA, connected to Internet 2. It also includes a discussion on the relational database created to handle the DICOM objects that were represented using Extensible Markup Language Schema documents, as well as other features implemented such as data security, user authentication, and patient confidentiality. Grid performance was tested using the three current operative nodes and the results demonstrated comparable query times between the mantisGRID (OGSA-DAI) and Distributed mySQL databases, especially for a large number of records