Challenges and opportunities of HealthGrids : proceedings of Healthgrid 2006 / edited by Vicente Hernández and Ignacio Blanquer ; with Tony Solomonides, Vincent Breton and Yannick Legré.

Proceedings of the annual HealthGrids conference, held June 7-9, 2006, in Valencia, Spain.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Title page; Introduction; Healthgrid 2006 Programme Committee; Contents; Medical Imaging on the Grid; Federating Distributed and Heterogeneous Information Sources in Neuroimaging: The NeuroBase Project; Bridging Clinical Information Systems and Grid Middleware: A Medical Data Manager; Grid Scheduling for Interactive Analysis; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Simulation on EGEE Grid Architecture: A Web Portal Design; Towards a Virtual Laboratory for fMRI Data Management and Analysis; Service-Oriented Architecture for Grid-Enabling Medical Applications.

Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Using a Grid Implementation of Statistical Parametric Mapping AnalysisUsing the Grid to Analyze the Pharmacokinetic Modelling After Contrast Administration in Dynamic MRI; Medical Image Registration Algorithms Assessment: Bronze Standard Application Enactment on Grids Using the MOTEUR Workflow Engine; Ethical, Legal and Privacy Issues on HealthGrids; The Ban on Processing Medical Data in European Law: Consent and Alternative Solutions to Legitimate Processing of Medical Data in HealthGrid.

Development of Grid Frameworks for Clinical Trials and Epidemiological StudiesPrivacy Protection in HealthGrid: Distributing Encryption Management over the VO; Secured Distributed Service to Manage Biological Data on EGEE Grid; Bioinformatics on the Grid; Demonstration of In Silico Docking at a Large Scale on Grid Infrastructure; A Gridified Protein Structure Prediction System "Rokky-G" and Its Implementation Issues; Sealife: A Semantic Grid Browser for the Life Sciences Applied to the Study of Infectious Diseases.

Advancing of Russian ChemBioGrid by Bringing Data Management Tools into Collaborative EnvironmentGPS@ Bioinformatics Portal: From Network to EGEE Grid; Blast2GO Goes Grid: Developing a Grid-Enabled Prototype for Functional Genomics Analysis; Bioprofiling over Grid for eHealthcare; SARS Grid-An AG-Based Disease Management and Collaborative Platform; Knowledge Discovery on HealthGrids; A Secure Semantic Interoperability Infrastructure for Inter-Enterprise Sharing of Electronic Healthcare Records.

Constructing a Semantically Enriched Biomedical Service Space: A Paradigm with Bioinformatics Resources Building a European Biomedical Grid on Cancer: The ACGT Integrated Project; Health-e-Child: An Integrated Biomedical Platform for Grid-Based Paediatric Applications; Medical Assessment and HealthGrid Applications; Grid Empowered Sharing of Medical Expertise; Mobile Peer-to-Grid Architecture for Paramedical Emergency Operations; Virtual Hospital and Digital Medicine -- Why Is the GRID Needed?; Final Results and Exploitation Plans for MammoGrid; Posters and Short Contributions.

Contains contributions that follow five main topics: Medical Imaging on the Grid; Ethical, Legal and Privacy Issues on HealthGrids; Bioinformatics on the Grid; Knowledge Discovery on HealthGrids and Medical Assessment and HealthGrid Applications. This work also focuses on basic technologies which are relevant for HealthGrids.

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