MammoGrid: A Service Oriented Architecture Based Medical Grid Application

The MammoGrid project has recently delivered its first proof-of-concept prototype using a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based Grid application to enable computing spanning national borders. The underlying AliEn Grid infrastructure has been selected because of its practicality and its emergence as a potential open source standards-based solution for managing and coordinating distributed resources. The resultant prototype is expected to harness the large amounts of medical image data needed to perform epidemiological studies, advanced image processing and ultimately tele-diagnosis over communities of ‘virtual organizations’. This paper outlines the MammoGrid approach in managing a federation of Grid-connected mammography databases in the context of the recently delivered prototype and describes the next phase of prototyping.