MammoGrid: from Physics to Medicine

A.E. Solomonides¹ on behalf of the MammoGrid Collaboration²

¹Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, UWE
² CERN (ETT), Mirada Solutions, Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Pisa, Sassari and Udine; Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge; Azienda Ospedaliera "Santa Maria della Misericordia", Udine

We report on an application of computing advances made at CERN in (a) the CRISTAL project, tracking the construction of the CMS ECAL detector, and (b) data grids, especially the Alice Environment (AliEn). The MammoGrid project harnesses these technologies together with independent advances in image processing to improve breast cancer screening programmes in Europe.

[1] Richard McClatchey et al, The MammoGrid Project Grids Architecture, CHEP2003.
[2] Tony Solomonides et al, MammoGrid: Large-Scale Distributed Mammogram Analysis, MIE2003.