Resolving clinicians' queries across a Grid's infrastructure

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-153

  Estrella, F ^a   Del Frate, C ^b   Hauer, T ^a   McClatchey, Richard ^a   Odeh, M ^a   Rogulin, D ^a   Amendolia, S R ^c   Schottlander, D ^d   Solomonides, T ^a   Warren, R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d Mirada Solutions Limited   (United Kingdom)

^e ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed database; Epidemiological studies; Mammography; Medical image analysis; Meta data; Queries

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; COOPERATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EUROPE; GRID TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 20344382305     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1633936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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