CardioGrid: a framework for the analysis of cardiological signals in Grid computing

Abstract

Abstract. The present paper describes the development of the CardioGRID framework into the GRID infrastructure. The core GRID services; Workload Management System (WMS), Data Management System and Grid Authentication have been implemented. Additionally, a webbased tool -the CardioGRID portal-has been developed to facilitate the user interaction with the GRID. As a result, the user is able to process the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals obtained form a portable data acquisition device and to process it on the GRID. Once the CardioGRID portal is prompted and the user identity is verified through a digital X.509 certificate, the operator may either upload new raw ECG data to the GRID Storage Elements or use already stored data. Then, subsequent analytics from these data are performed as GRID jobs and relevant medical quantities are derived through middle-ware job retrieval mechanism. In summary in this paper was described the development of a medical GRID based system, and its integration to an existing platform for Digital Repositories Infrastructure.

A Grid Enabled Framework for Ubiquitous Healthcare Service Provisioning

“…The ICGrid allows doctors to utilize the EGEE grid infrastructure through simple intuitive user interfaces, while the infrastructure itself handles the complex task of information replication, fault tolerance and sharing (Gjermundrod et al, 2007). The CardioGrid (Risk et al, 2009) is a grid based framework for analyzing cardiological signals. This infrastructure allows a user to process on the grid, the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals obtained from a portable data acquisition device.…”