MAGI: A Medical Application Grid Interfacing portal for eScience

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Pacheco, D (Author) Other; Oliveira, I (Author) Other; Fernandes, JM (Author) Other; Cunha, JPS (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: IBERGRID: 3RD IBERIAN GRID INFRASTRUCTURE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Pages: 31-42

3rd Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (IBERGRID)

Valencia, SPAIN, MAY 20-22, 2009

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Authenticus ID: P-003-QA3

Abstract (EN): Digital medical imaging poses challenging requirements to computer science, calling for methods able to efficiently address large data sets and complex processing. Production Grid infrastructures are available, ready to provide on-demand scalable processing power and robust storage. These infrastructures, however, still expose many technical complexities to end-users and domain application developers. In this context, the ability to access Grid services in a seamless, user-friendly way is paramount to bring the Grid potential to clinical users and biomedical researchers. In this paper, we present a Grid-interfacing portal, aiming at raising the level of usability of the Grid to medical research users. In the MAGI portal, the researcher works with domain semantics, including concepts like subject, study and dataset, while the Grid operations, specially storage, are transparently supported by a services framework we have developed. The framework provides high-level, application-developer friendly services to interface the gLite middleware. The portal was also designed to support intuitive, visual interactions, like drag-and-drop, to execute the main use cases.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12