Web services for a biomedical imaging portal

Author

Aloisio, Giovanni ; Blasi, Euro ; Cafaro, Massimo ; Fiore, Sandro ; Lezzi, Daniele ; Mirto, Maria

Author_Institution

Center for Adv. Computational Technol., Lecce Univ., Italy

fYear

2003

fDate

28-30 April 2003

Firstpage

432

Lastpage

436

Abstract

TACWeb (TAC images on the Web), is a Web-based Grid portal, developed at the CACT/ISUFI laboratory of the University of Lecce for the management of biomedical images in a distributed environment. TACWeb, building on top of the Globus Toolkit, is an interactive environment that deals with complex user\´s requests, regarding the acquisition of biomedical data, the "processing" and "delivering" of biomedical images, using the power and security of computational grids. Recently, Grid technologies are being integrated with Web services technologies to provide a framework for interoperable application-to-application interaction. In this paper we present an evolution of the TACWeb architecture that is compliant with the Web services approach and its main functionalities. In such a system, the basic capabilities are encapsulated and exposed as Web services allowing the development of new health applications as a composition of such services.

Keywords

Web sites; biomedical imaging; grid computing; medical administrative data processing; portals; CACT/ISUFI laboratory; Globus Toolkit; Grid portal; Open Grid Service Architecture; TAC images on the Web; TACWeb; University of Lecce; Web services; biomedical imaging portal; distributed environment; electronic patient record; interoperable application-to-application interaction; Bioinformatics; Biomedical computing; Biomedical imaging; Computer architecture; Data security; Environmental management; Grid computing; Portals; Power system security; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing [Computers and Communications], 2003. Proceedings. ITCC 2003. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1916-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2003.1197568

Filename

1197568