A thin client interface to a high performance multi-modal image analytics system

Abstract

We describe a platform for performing text and radiology analytics (TARA). We integrate commercially available hardware and middleware components to construct an environment which is well-suited for performing computationally intensive analyses of medical data. The system, termed a "medical analytical platform," adopts a client-server approach for the display and processing of radiology images, utilizing a standard web browser client connected to a web server. All of the computation is carried out on the web server and computationally intensive tasks are carried out on the attached IBM Cell processor. The system is used to store, fetch, align and display radiology images and the analysis of the associated text reports, and allows for real time processing of the images. We describe novel algorithms for displaying slices of 3D images within a web browser, and for displaying and searching down the RadLex tree and an annotation system for discovering drug dosages in the accompanying clinical reports. © 2009 IEEE.