DECIDE
Name
DECIDE – Diagnostic Enhancement of Confidence by an International Distributed Environment
Area
Infrastructure project for the medical community
Agreement
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 6 July 2011
About DECIDE
The DECIDE project aims to establish a dedicated grid e-infrastructure for extracting diagnostic markers from medical images. This will be used for Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. Medical specialists will be able to access large distributed reference databases (850 and 2200 datasets from normal subjects and from neurological subjects, respectively), high computation and storage resources (more than 1000 CPU core processors and 70 terabyte of storage) and use intensive image processing tools.
In the longer-term, the infrastructure could be extended to other research and diagnostic algorithms for brain and other organ diseases.
Overview of the joint workplan
EGI-InSPIRE and the DECIDE projects will work together to provide European scientists and international collaboration with sustainable distributed computing services to support their work. In this broad context, the specific goals of the collaborations are:
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Requirements gathering
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Support tools and services
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User support and Virtual Research Community integration
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User community policy and procedures
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Sustainability
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Dissemination
