MEDICAL IMAGING IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Louis Parsonson, Li Bai, Laurence Bourn, Atif Bajwa, Soeren Grimm

2011

Abstract

In this paper we present a cloud computing environment for medical imaging which deals with the issues of scaling a traditionally single-user solution to a software-as-a-service solution. We will first introduce volume rendering for medical imaging, and the issues with volume rendering of medical images on the cloud. We will then describe our method for accelerating CPU based volume rendering on the cloud and for scaling the system to a software-as-a-service solution.

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Parsonson L., Bai L., Bourn L., Bajwa A. and Grimm S. (2011). MEDICAL IMAGING IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8425-52-2, pages 327-332. DOI: 10.5220/0003383803270332


in Harvard Style

Parsonson L., Bai L., Bourn L., Bajwa A. and Grimm S. (2011). MEDICAL IMAGING IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8425-52-2, pages 327-332. DOI: 10.5220/0003383803270332


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer11,
author={Louis Parsonson and Li Bai and Laurence Bourn and Atif Bajwa and Soeren Grimm},
title={MEDICAL IMAGING IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2011},
pages={327-332},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003383803270332},
isbn={978-989-8425-52-2},
}


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer11,
author={Louis Parsonson and Li Bai and Laurence Bourn and Atif Bajwa and Soeren Grimm},
title={MEDICAL IMAGING IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2011},
pages={327-332},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003383803270332},
isbn={978-989-8425-52-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - MEDICAL IMAGING IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
SN - 978-989-8425-52-2
AU - Parsonson L.
AU - Bai L.
AU - Bourn L.
AU - Bajwa A.
AU - Grimm S.
PY - 2011
SP - 327
EP - 332
DO - 10.5220/0003383803270332


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - MEDICAL IMAGING IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
SN - 978-989-8425-52-2
AU - Parsonson L.
AU - Bai L.
AU - Bourn L.
AU - Bajwa A.
AU - Grimm S.
PY - 2011
SP - 327
EP - 332
DO - 10.5220/0003383803270332