Distributed Data Management Service for VPH Applications

Many medical applications are required to transparently access datasets hosted across different domains on heterogeneous infrastructures. Homogenizing the infrastructure to simplify access is unrealistic; therefore, it's important to develop distributed storage that doesn't introduce added complexity. The objective of this research is to investigate a flexible solution that federates data on clouds or grids without changes to the infrastructure. Unlike existing approaches, this method isn't bound to a specific technology and doesn't require additional effort from users to federate the storage infrastructure. As a use case, the authors present a cardiac anatomy workflow that supports diagnostic methods.