Design and implementation of a fault-tolerant and dynamic metadata database for clinical trials

J. Lee; Z. Zhou; E. Talini; J. Documet; B. Liu

doi:10.1117/12.710550

21 March 2007 Design and implementation of a fault-tolerant and dynamic metadata database for clinical trials

J. Lee, Z. Zhou, E. Talini, J. Documet, B. Liu

Proceedings Volume 6516, Medical Imaging 2007: PACS and Imaging Informatics; 65160O (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.710550
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

In recent imaging-based clinical trials, quantitative image analysis (QIA) and computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) methods are increasing in productivity due to higher resolution imaging capabilities. A radiology core doing clinical trials have been analyzing more treatment methods and there is a growing quantity of metadata that need to be stored and managed. These radiology centers are also collaborating with many off-site imaging field sites and need a way to communicate metadata between one another in a secure infrastructure. Our solution is to implement a data storage grid with a fault-tolerant and dynamic metadata database design to unify metadata from different clinical trial experiments and field sites. Although metadata from images follow the DICOM standard, clinical trials also produce metadata specific to regions-of-interest and quantitative image analysis. We have implemented a data access and integration (DAI) server layer where multiple field sites can access multiple metadata databases in the data grid through a single web-based grid service. The centralization of metadata database management simplifies the task of adding new databases into the grid and also decreases the risk of configuration errors seen in peer-to-peer grids. In this paper, we address the design and implementation of a data grid metadata storage that has fault-tolerance and dynamic integration for imaging-based clinical trials.

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J. Lee, Z. Zhou, E. Talini, J. Documet, and B. Liu "Design and implementation of a fault-tolerant and dynamic metadata database for clinical trials", Proc. SPIE 6516, Medical Imaging 2007: PACS and Imaging Informatics, 65160O (21 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.710550

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