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

Volume

32

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan. 2013

Firstpage

110

Lastpage

118

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0062

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMI.2012.2220154

Filename

6310064