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A Grid service for the interactive use of a parallel non-rigid registration algorithm of medical images
R Stefanescu1, X Pennec, N Ayache
1INRIA Sophia, Epidaure, 2004 Rte des Lucioles, BP93, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France. Radu.Stefanescu@sophia.inria.fr
Objective:
The goal of this work is to improve the usability of a non-rigid registration software for medical images.
Method:
We have built a registration grid service in order to use the interactivity of a visualization workstation and the computing power of a cluster. On the user side, the system is composed of a graphical interface that interacts in a complex and fluid manner with the registration software running on a remote cluster.
Conclusion:
Although the transmission of images back and forth between the computer running the user interface and the cluster running the registration service adds to the total registration time, it provides a user-friendly way of using the registration software without heavy infrastructure investments in hospitals. The system exhibits good performances even if the user is connected to the grid service through a low throughput network such as a wireless network interface or ADSL.

