Keith S. Cover1, Frederik Barkhof1,
Alex Zijdenbos2, Christian Spenger2, Richard McClatchey3,
David Manset4, Lars-Olof Wahlund5, Yannick Legre6,
Tony Solomonides6, Giovanni B. Frisoni7
1VU University Medical Center,
Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2Prodema Medical; 3University
of the West of England; 4MAAT G Knowledge SL; 5Karolinska
Institutet; 6HealthGrid; 7Fatebenefratelli
neuGRID
is developing a new user-friendly Grid-based research e-Infrastructure
enabling the European neuroscience community to carry out computer intensive
research required for the pressing study of degenerative brain diseases (for
example, the Alzheimer disease). In neuGRID, the archiving of large amounts
of imaging data is paired with hundreds of CPUs and a variety of software
packages. Neuroscientists will be able to identify neurodegenerative disease
markers through the analysis of 3D magnetic resonance brain images via the
provision of sets of distributed medical and GRID services. The
infrastructure is designed to be expandable to services for other medical
applications and is compliant with EU and international standards regarding
data collection, data management, and Grid construction.