Brain Imaging Network System Architecture & Usage Scenarios
Pedro Lopes | pedrolopes@ua.pt | PDEI - TAEI-1 | Jan 6, 2009
Outline ‣ BIN - What? - Goals
‣ Objectives ‣ Architecture ‣ Usage Scenarios ‣ Conclusions
What is BIN? ‣ Brain Imaging Network ‣ Improve research conditions ‣ Connect People ‣ National IT infrastructure - Porto - Coimbra: central DICOM Server - Aveiro: central datacenter - Minho - Lisboa
Objectives ‣ Develop IT infrastructure to support collaboration and sharing ‣ Create a “neuroscientist friendly” web portal - http://braingimaging.pt ‣ Equipment time management ‣ Thematic forums ‣ e-Science tools
‣ Encourage scientific collaboration among different research institutes ‣ Promote pluridisciplinary studies ‣ Establish standards for multivendor data exchange
Architecture
Scenario [Search and View DICOM]
UI
11
21
61
61 Web Server
Catalog
31
DICOM Server
51
Anonymizer
41
Image Converter
Scenario [View Catalog Manager Log]
21
31
41
41
UI
Web Server
11
Authentication
Log Centre
Scenario [View Personal History]
21
41
61
51
UI
Web Server
11
31
Authentication BINDB
Catalog
Scenario [Establish Multimedia Call]
21 31
VoIP Gateway
41 UI
Web Server
51
11
Authentication
Log Centre
Video Gateway
Conclusions ‣ Very ambitious project - Increased complexity
‣ Studied scenarios are just simple and naive examples - Generic insight of the complete system - Example workflows
BING huge size requires careful and sensible planning and design.
Questions?
Thank You