Cloud computing in medical imaging

George C. Kagadis, Christos Kloukinas, Kevin Moore, Jim Philbin, Panagiotis Papadimitroulas, Christos Alexakos, Paul G. Nagy, Dimitris Visvikis, William R. Hendee
2013 Medical Physics (Lancaster)  
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
more » ... ns. 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.
doi:10.1118/1.4811272 pmid:23822402 fatcat:ovfqdqwogbdh3dsn72cohvq3pm