2014 Summer Project Week: Chronicle

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Key Investigators

• Steve Pieper, Isomics
• Anyone else who is interested

Project Description

Chronicle is an idea to have a database and processing system based on DICOM and CouchDB. The basic ideas are covered in the Chronicle Pamphlet.

Objective

• Lots of DICOM and related data to be organized for easy access
  • Standardized representations
  • Distributed replication
  • Filtered replication
  • Simultaneous access and update
• Automatic triggering of processing modules
  • Auto data conversion
  • Workflow management
• Access from a variety of tools
  • Slicer
  • Web Apps
  • Batch

Approach, Plan

• Give demos of current work in progress if people are interested
• Discuss
  • NoSQL
  • JavaScript
  • MapReduce for Medical Records
  • DICOM, Electronic Medical Records
  • HTML5 Apps, WebGL
  • SlicerChronicle

Progress

• Held productive discussions with several possible users
  • MGH for GBM research
  • Childrens/MGH/BWH for RPDR and mi2b2 data management
  • U. Iowa Huntingtons clinical data management
• Did experimental uploads to couchdb server installed in Iowa
  • uploads ongoing (225K instances so far on one server)
  • performance appears to be good even with lots of data
• Reviewed scalability with Jim