A Dependable Massive Storage Service for Medical Imaging

We present the construction of Babel, a distributed storage system that meets stringent requirements on dependability, availability, and scalability. Together with Babel, we developed an application that uses our system to store medical images. Accordingly, we show the feasibility of our proposal to...

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Published in:Journal of digital imaging 2018-10, Vol.31 (5), p.628-639
Main Authors: Núñez-Gaona, Marco Antonio, Marcelín-Jiménez, Ricardo, Gutiérrez-Martínez, Josefina, Aguirre-Meneses, Heriberto, Gonzalez-Compean, José Luis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archiving
Communications systems
Data processing
Data recovery
Disaster recovery
Feasibility studies
Human communication
Imaging
Life cycle engineering
Life cycles
Medical imaging
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Migration
Radiology
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Summary:We present the construction of Babel, a distributed storage system that meets stringent requirements on dependability, availability, and scalability. Together with Babel, we developed an application that uses our system to store medical images. Accordingly, we show the feasibility of our proposal to provide an alternative solution for massive scientific storage and describe the software architecture style that manages the DICOM images life cycle, utilizing Babel like a virtual local storage component for a picture archiving and communication system (PACS-Babel Interface). Furthermore, we describe the communication interface in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and show how it can be extended to manage the hard work associated with data migration processes on PACS in case of updates or disaster recovery.
ISSN:0897-1889
1618-727X
DOI:10.1007/s10278-018-0091-x