Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2005. CCGrid 2005. IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9074-1
DOI :
10.1109/CCGRID.2005.1558681
