An architecture for DICOM medical images storage and retrieval adopting distributed file systems

International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 99-106

  De Macedo, Douglas D J ^a   Von Wangenheim, Aldo ^a   Dantas, M A R ^a   Perantunes, Hilton G W ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

DICOM; Digital imaging communications in medicine; Distributed file systems; HDF5; Hierarchical data format; Medical images; Parallel virtual file system; PVFS

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CLUSTER COMPUTING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; FILE ORGANIZATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TELEMEDICINE;

DICOM; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS; HDF5; HIERARCHICAL DATA; PARALLEL VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEMS; PVFS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 77949350502     PISSN: 17516528     EISSN: 17516536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJHPSA.2009.032027     Document Type: Article

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