Construction of a diagnostic support system for circulatory disease in a volume communications environment

Author

Okuda, Motoi ; Watanabe, Masahiro ; Matsuzawa, Teruo

Author_Institution

Japan Adv. Inst. Sci. & Technol., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

9-12 May 2005

Firstpage

1087

Abstract

We have constructed a diagnostic support system for circulatory disease based on a volume communications environment. This system is based on a VizGrid environment, i.e. an integrated environment consisting of a data archiving system, a collaboration system, and a computational grid system. In this system, we simulate blood flow in a patient´s individual blood vessel geometry and blood vessel wall using a weak coupling method. This system can be used with three-dimensional images from CT/MRI, for medical treatment and for simulating blood flow in a blood vessel with circulatory disease in a volume communications environment. With this system, it becomes easy for researchers in remote locations to collaboratively discuss the relevant object, even for complex explanations like the simulation results.

Keywords

data visualisation; diseases; flow simulation; grid computing; groupware; haemodynamics; medical diagnostic computing; VizGrid environment; blood flow simulation; blood vessel geometry; blood vessel wall; circulatory disease; collaboration system; computational grid system; data archiving system; diagnostic support system; volume communication environment; weak coupling method; Biomedical imaging; Blood flow; Blood vessels; Collaboration; Computational modeling; Diseases; Geometry; Grid computing; Medical simulation; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2005. CCGrid 2005. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9074-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCGRID.2005.1558681

Filename

1558681