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 … Medical Applications … 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 Medical Diagnosis and Imaging Problem Solving Environment

2D/3D visualization VL experiment topology Image processing, Data storage Filtering, analyses, simulation Data retrieval, acquisition