A Cloud Computing Service for managing biomedical image collections

A huge quantity of biomedical images is generated every day. Building effective and agile systems for managing these collections has become an important and expensive issue for hospitals and institutions. In this paper we present a cloud computing service and its application for the storage and analysis of large image collections, specifically for very-large images. This Cloud Computing Service allows users to manage image collections in a relatively low-cost manner. The service is internally implemented by a balanced multiagent system. A novel aspect of the system is that one image could be divided in several, and those can then be stored and managed separately. This feature improves performance in data processing and information retrieval.