TY - CHAP
T1 - Distributed processing of large BioMedical 3D images
AU - Liakos, Konstantinos
AU - Burger, Albert
AU - Baldock, Richard
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The Human Genetics Unit (HGU) of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Edinburgh has developed the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas, a spatial temporal framework to store and analyze biological data including 3D images that relate to mouse embryo development. The purpose of the system is the analysis and querying of complex spatial patterns in particular the patterns of gene activity during embryo development. The framework holds large 3D grey level images and is implemented in part as an object-oriented database. In this paper we propose a layered architecture, based on the mediator approach, for the design of a transparent, and scalable distributed system which can process objects that can exceed 1GB in size. The system's data are distributed and/or declustered, across a number of image servers and are processed by specialized mediators. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
AB - The Human Genetics Unit (HGU) of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Edinburgh has developed the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas, a spatial temporal framework to store and analyze biological data including 3D images that relate to mouse embryo development. The purpose of the system is the analysis and querying of complex spatial patterns in particular the patterns of gene activity during embryo development. The framework holds large 3D grey level images and is implemented in part as an object-oriented database. In this paper we propose a layered architecture, based on the mediator approach, for the design of a transparent, and scalable distributed system which can process objects that can exceed 1GB in size. The system's data are distributed and/or declustered, across a number of image servers and are processed by specialized mediators. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
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U2 - 10.1007/11403937_12
DO - 10.1007/11403937_12
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 978-3-540-25424-9
VL - 3402
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 142
EP - 155
BT - High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2004
T2 - 6th International Conference - High Performance Computing for Computational Science
Y2 - 28 June 2004 through 30 June 2004
ER -