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Image analysis in life sciences with a High Throughput Compute platform

<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-scientists-have-developed-a-framework-to-generate-virtual-ultrasound-and-magnetic-resonance-images-using-the-vip-platform">Scientists have developed a framework to generate virtual ultrasound and magnetic resonance images using the VIP platform</h3>



Cardiovascular diseases are one of the <a href="https://www.who.int/health-topics/cardiovascular-diseases">top causes of death</a> globally. The mortality rate can be reduced by diagnosing these diseases at an early stage. One of the ways to do that is by using cardiac imaging technologies, such as ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance (MR). Scientists have made a lot of progress in the past years by simulating these techniques and using virtual patients.



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">The generation of one full 3D sequence took around 6 hours on VIP, knowing that it would have taken over 280 hours on a personal laptop.</blockquote>



The work of researchers Olivier Bernard and colleagues at the University of Lyon in France is focused on this exact purpose. In&nbsp;<a href="https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01533366/document" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">one of their recent studies</a>, they developed a first simulation framework to generate 3D artificial cardiac US and MR image sequences from the same virtual patient.



The team started by using real clinical recordings to extract information that would improve the realism of the generated synthetic images. Then they involved a state-of-the-art electromechanical (E/M) model to simulate cardiac motion fields and used physical simulation environments to replicate image formation.



Their combined work resulted in a framework for generating synthetic data.



All the simulations were launched from the&nbsp;<a href="https://vip.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virtual Imaging Platform</a>&nbsp;(VIP) tool, a web portal for medical simulation and image data analysis relying on EGI’s&nbsp;<a href="https://wwwold.egi.eu/services/high-throughput-compute/">High-Throughput Compute</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://wwwold.egi.eu/services/online-storage/">Online Storage</a>&nbsp;resources.



Thanks to the new framework, Bernard and his colleagues created a catalogue of 18 virtual patients, with a total of 90 synthetic sequences representing 2700 image volumes with the corresponding benchmarked myocardial motion for validation purposes.



This allowed the team to generate a full 3D synthetic sequence in around 6 hours. Without the added value of VIP and the compute resources behind the platform, the same task would have taken over 280 hours to complete on a normal laptop.



The team’s research results and the sequences are available online via an&nbsp;<a href="http://humanheart-project.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/database/#collection/587de6f4e1af3f30a2980a58" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">open-access database</a>.



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="667" src="https://cdn.egi.eu/app/uploads/2022/06/realistic_simu_mri_cine_tag_us_full-1024x667.png" alt="" class="wp-image-15581" srcset="https://cdn.egi.eu/app/uploads/2022/06/realistic_simu_mri_cine_tag_us_full-1024x667.png 1024w, https://cdn.egi.eu/app/uploads/2022/06/realistic_simu_mri_cine_tag_us_full-300x195.png 300w, https://cdn.egi.eu/app/uploads/2022/06/realistic_simu_mri_cine_tag_us_full-768x500.png 768w, https://cdn.egi.eu/app/uploads/2022/06/realistic_simu_mri_cine_tag_us_full-1200x781.png 1200w, https://cdn.egi.eu/app/uploads/2022/06/realistic_simu_mri_cine_tag_us_full.png 1464w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption>Multimodality heart simulations</figcaption></figure>

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Try it out at <a href="https://vip.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vip.creatis.insa-lyon.fr</a> and get an overview of the open services provided by VIP based on EGI resources. The VIP team will be happy to receive your feedback at <a href="mailto:vip-support@creatis.insa-lyon.fr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">vip-support@creatis.insa-lyon.fr</a>.

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VIP is a web portal for medical imaging applications. It allows users to access scientific applications as a service (directly through a web browser with no installation required) and distributed computing resources transparently. It exploits the resources available in the Biomed virtual organization to offer an open service to researchers worldwide. This portal is exclusively dedicated to non-commercial academic use; however, any commercial use request can be investigated directly with the platform managers.

VIP has also been portrayed in the <a href="https://www.egi.eu/article/happy-13th-birthday-egi/">infographic</a> dedicated to EGI's Birthday - check that out.

The Virtual Imaging Platform (VIP) has got a brand-new welcome page! 



Try it out at <a href="https://vip.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vip.creatis.insa-lyon.fr</a> and get an overview of the open services provided by VIP based on EGI resources. The VIP team will be happy to receive your feedback at <a href="mailto:vip-support@creatis.insa-lyon.fr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">vip-support@creatis.insa-lyon.fr</a>.



<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-what-is-vip">What is VIP?</h3>



VIP is a web portal for medical imaging applications. It allows users to access scientific applications as a service (directly through a web browser with no installation required) and distributed computing resources transparently. It exploits the resources available in the Biomed virtual organization to offer an open service to researchers worldwide. This portal is exclusively dedicated to non-commercial academic use; however, any commercial use request can be investigated directly with the platform managers.



VIP has also been portrayed in the <a href="https://www.egi.eu/article/happy-13th-birthday-egi/">infographic</a> dedicated to EGI&#8217;s Birthday &#8211; check that out.

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