Medical Grid: Using Grid Technology for Brain Studies by Dr. Epifanio Bagarinao, Dr. Toshiharu Nakai, and Dr. Yoshio Tanaka

PHILIPPINE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL (PITJ)
Volume I. Number 1. February 2008. pp. 3-7.


Research Paper

Medical Grid: Using Grid Technology for Brain Studies

Epifanio Bagarinao
Grid Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan+81 (0)29 861 5080 (ext. 55550)
baggy @ ni.aist.go.jp

Toshiharu Nakai
Department of Gerontechnology, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Ohbu, Aichi, Japan+81 562 46 2311
toshi @ nils.go.jp

Yoshio Tanaka
Grid Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan
yoshio.tanaka @ aist.go.jp


ABSTRACT

The Medical Grid (MedGrid) Project was initiated in 2004 to study and demonstrate the use of grid technology in medical applications, in particular, in the management and analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) datasets. For this, the MedGrid testbed was formed to provide a platform for the study and to demonstrate the feasibility of the idea. In this paper, we summarize the progress we’ve made in the last four years in implementing a grid-based fMRI data management and analysis framework within the MedGrid testbed.

Keywords

Grid computing, functional MRI, fMRI, BAXGrid, BAXSQL



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