VL-e generic services:• Scientific visualization techniques (volume

rendering, surface extraction)• Image processing algorithms (registration,

segmentation)• Workflow management• Parallel processing techniques• …

Application specific services:• Access to medical data (DICOM)• Interfaces to medical scanners (PACS)• In-house developed algorithms:

– Eddy Current Reduction (AMC)– Matched Masked Bone Elimination (AMC)– MEG data analyses (VUmc)– Fiber Tracking (PMS, AMC)

• Patient privacy

Grid Middleware

Surfnet

Virtual Laboratory

VL-e Environment

… MedicalApplications

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Grid services:• Resource management

– Computing resources, storage resources, graphical rendering resources, algorithms, databases, …

• AAA&S

Partners:• Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA)• Academisch Medisch Centrum (AMC)• Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum (VUMC)• Philips Research• Philips Medical Systems• TU Delft• IBM

Applications:

1. Eddy current reduction

2. Matched Masked Bone Elimination

3. Functional brain imaging, DWI and fiber tracking

4. MR virtual colonoscopy

5. Parallel MEG data analyses

6. Grid-based data storage, retrieval and sharing

7. Interactive 3D medical visualization

Objective:

To study the design and implementation of a PSE for medical diagnosis and imaging to support and enhance the clinical diagnostic and therapeutic decision process.

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Medical Diagnosis and Imaging Problem Solving Environment

Medical Diagnosis and Imaging Problem Solving Environment

2D/3D visualization

VL experiment topologyImage processing,Data storage

Filtering, analyses,simulation

Data retrieval,acquisition