braing imaing network - system architecture (keynote)

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]

Web ServerUI

Anonymizer

Catalog

DICOM Server

11 12

13

14

15

Image Converter

1616

Scenario [View Catalog Manager Log]

Log Centre

Authentication

Web ServerUI

11

12 13

14 14

Scenario [View Personal History]

BINDB

Catalog

Authentication

Web ServerUI

11

12

13

14

1516

Scenario [Establish Multimedia Call]

Authentication

Web ServerUI

11

12

14

VoIP Gateway

Video Gateway

13

Log Centre

15

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