Cloud computing in medical imaging
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Over the past century technology has played a decisive role in defining, driving, and reinventing procedures, devices, and pharmaceuticals in healthcare. Cloud computing has been introduced only recently but is already one of the major topics of discussion in research and clinical settings. The provision of extensive, easily accessible, and reconfigurable resources such as virtual systems, platforms, and applications with low service cost has caught the attention of many researchers and clinicians. Healthcare researchers are moving their efforts to the cloud, because they need adequate resources to process, store, exchange, and use large quantities of medical data. This Vision 20/20 paper addresses major questions related to the applicability of advanced cloud computing in medical imaging. The paper also considers security and ethical issues that accompany cloud computing.
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- Authors
- Kagadis, G. C., Kloukinas, C., Moore, K., Philbin, J., Papadimitroulas, P., Alexakos, C., Nagy, P. G., Visvikis, D., & Hendee, W. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Patras (GR)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Inserm (FR)
- Mayo Clinic (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kagadis, George C.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Medical Physics
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-06-21
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 070901-070901
- ISSN
- 0094-2405 (ISSN-L)
- 2473-4209
- OpenAlex
- W1964055730
- Cited by
- 146
- References
- 48
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- FWCI
- 1.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Medical Physics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission
- European Social Fund
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Computing and Resource Management
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Keywords
- cloud computing, diagnostic imaging, medical data storage, health information exchange, cloud security, big data processing
- MeSH terms
- Delivery of Health Care, Diagnostic Imaging, Humans, Research, Software, Computer Security, Internet
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