Title :
A Virtual Imaging Platform for Multi-Modality Medical Image Simulation
Author :
Glatard, T. ; Lartizien, C. ; Gibaud, B. ; Ferreira da Silva, R. ; Forestier, G. ; Cervenansky, F. ; Alessandrini, M. ; Benoit-Cattin, H. ; Bernard, O. ; Camarasu-Pop, S. ; Cerezo, N. ; Clarysse, P. ; Gaignard, A. ; Hugonnard, P. ; Liebgott, H. ; Marache,
Author_Institution :
INSA-Lyon, Univ. de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
Abstract :
This paper presents the Virtual Imaging Platform (VIP), a platform accessible at http://vip.creatis.insa-lyon.fr to facilitate the sharing of object models and medical image simulators, and to provide access to distributed computing and storage resources. A complete overview is presented, describing the ontologies designed to share models in a common repository, the workίow template used to integrate simulators, and the tools and strategies used to exploit computing and storage resources. Simulation results obtained in four image modalities and with different models show that VIP is versatile and robust enough to support large simulations. The platform currently has 200 registered users who consumed 33 years of CPU time in 2011.
Keywords :
distributed processing; medical image processing; virtual reality; VIP; distributed computing; multimodality medical image simulation; storage resources; virtual imaging platform; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Data models; Image reconstruction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Ontologies; Distributed computing infrastructures; medical image simulation; ontology; workflows; Computer Simulation; Database Management Systems; Databases, Factual; Diagnostic Imaging; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Medical Informatics Applications; Models, Biological; Reproducibility of Results; Software;
Journal_Title :
Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TMI.2012.2220154
