학술논문

Evaluation of Visualization Approaches in a Biomedical Grid Environment
Document Type
Conference
Source
2010 Sixth IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops e-Science Workshops, 2010 Sixth IEEE International Conference on. :80-85 Dec, 2010
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Visualization
Data visualization
Usability
Performance evaluation
Servers
Grid Computing
Cluster Computing
Biomedicine
Language
Abstract
Advanced visualization technologies are gaining major importance to interpret, present and manipulate high dimensional biomedical data. Since new health technologies are constantly increasing in complexity, adequate information processing is required for diagnostics, therapy planning and treatment. The combination of advanced visualization resources and biomedical grid infrastructures is a promising approach to build dynamic and scalable problem solving environments for such tasks. Visualization then becomes the main issue in system-user interaction, and is therefore a crucial factor in the usefulness of the complete system for the domain researchers. In this paper, two remote visualization approaches to utilize the capabilities of such an environment are presented and evaluated. Evaluation criteria are performance, usability, adaptivity and functionality. Both, an open source and a commercial solution are considered. While the proprietary software shows better performance, the open source solution offers the advantage for seamless grid integration.