A Conceptual Grid Architecture for Interactive Biomedical Applications

Abstract

The growing complexity of distributed biomedical application requirements present new challenges to the representation of software architectural analysis and design. This is the case in particular when using Grid infrastructures for supporting interactive biomedical applications. In this paper we present a generic Grid software architecture for biomedicine, where we focus on a conceptual level of architecture design. In this approach, we identify high-level components, their subcomponents and their relationships as required to allow for basic interactivity. We apply our approach to a biomedical application for the simulation of blood flow, within a production Grid framework, and present our conclusions.

Grid-based Semantic Integration and dissemination of medical information

“…This Grid aims at providing a virtual laboratory where e-scientists can simulate biological experiments, compose existing analysis and visualization tools, monitor their execution, store the intermediate and final output and finally save the model of the experiment for updating or reproducing it. A Grid Architecture for interactive biomedical applications [5] is presented that shows interaction among various components. The integration of a bio-physical model into a clinical augmented reality system is another challenging task, where Grid technology could be the key [4].…”