Numerical Simulation for eHealth: Grid-enabled Medical Simulation Services

The European GEMSS Project 1 is concerned with the creation of medical Grid service prototypes and their evaluation in a secure service-oriented infrastructure for distributed on-demand supercomputing- the GEMSS test-bed. The medical prototype applications include maxillo-facial surgery simulation, neuro-surgery support, radio-surgery planning, inhaled drug-delivery simulation, cardiovascular simulation and tomographic image reconstruction. GEMSS will enable the wide-spread use of these computationally demanding tools originating from projects such as BloodSim, SimBio, COPHIT and RAPT as Grid services. The numerical High-Performance Computing core includes parallel Finite Element software and Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation as well as parallel optimization methods and parallel Monte Carlo simulation. Targeted end-user groups include bio-mechanics laboratories, hospital surgery/radiology units, diagnostic and therapeutic departments, designers of medical devices in industry as well as small enterprises involved in consultancy on bio-medical simulations. GEMSS addresses security, privacy and legal issues related to the Grid provision of medical simulation and image processing services and the development of suitable business models for sustainable use. The first prototype of the GEMSS middleware is expected to be released in February 2004