@article {573,
	title = {mantisGRID: A Grid Platform for DICOM Medical Images Management in Colombia and Latin America.},
	journal = {Journal of digital imaging : the official journal of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology},
	volume = {24},
	year = {2011},
	month = {2011 Apr},
	pages = {271-83},
	abstract = {This paper presents the mantisGRID project, an interinstitutional initiative from Colombian medical and academic centers aiming to provide medical grid services for Colombia and Latin America. The mantisGRID is a GRID platform, based on open source grid infrastructure that provides the necessary services to access and exchange medical images and associated information following digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) and health level 7 standards. The paper focuses first on the data abstraction architecture, which is achieved via Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI) services and supported by the Globus Toolkit. The grid currently uses a 30-Mb bandwidth of the Colombian High Technology Academic Network, RENATA, connected to Internet 2. It also includes a discussion on the relational database created to handle the DICOM objects that were represented using Extensible Markup Language Schema documents, as well as other features implemented such as data security, user authentication, and patient confidentiality. Grid performance was tested using the three current operative nodes and the results demonstrated comparable query times between the mantisGRID (OGSA-DAI) and Distributed mySQL databases, especially for a large number of records.},
	issn = {1618-727X},
	author = {Garcia Ruiz, Manuel and Garcia Chaves, Alvin and Ruiz Iba{\~n}ez, Carlos and Gutierrez Mazo, Jorge Mario and Ramirez Giraldo, Juan Carlos and Pelaez Echavarria, Alejandro and Valencia Diaz, Edison and Pelaez Restrepo, Gustavo and Montoya Munera, Edwin Nelson and Garcia Loaiza, Bernardo and Gomez Gonzalez, Sebastian}
}
