NA-MIC National Alliance for Medical Image Computing UCSD / BIRN Coordinating Center NAMIC Group Site PI: Mark H. Ellisman Site Project Lead: Jeffrey S. Grethe

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Who are we – people Faculty –Mark Ellisman –Jeffrey Grethe Grid Application Development *Integration of Slicer3 Execution model with Grid infrastructure –Brendan Faherty Portal Development *Integration of NA-MIC Toolkit components w/ User Portal –Ramil Manansala Application Integration *Integration of NA-MIC Toolkit with BIRN environment –Vicky Rowley Systems Support *Support for NA-MIC components of BIRN grid –Bao Nguyen

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Who are we – historical Close collaboration with BWH SPL as part of the BIRN project Leader in enabling scientific research through advanced cyberinfrastructure: –NPACI –Telescience –BIRN Coordinating Center

Multiscale Neuroscience from Instruments to Information Technology

THE BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS RESEARCH NETWORK LAYOUT FOR PHASE 1 From the Expanding the BIRN NCRR: December. 6 & 7, 2001) At the beginning

The BIRN - NAMIC NCBC Collaboratory Today Enabling collaborative research at ~30 research institutions comprised of ~40 research groups. It will no longer matter where data, instruments and computational resources are located!

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing What do we contribute Enable researchers to store and interact with large collections of federated data within a distributed data grid –320 subject datasets (including T1, T2, PD, DTI, fMRI) –Since last NA-MIC AHM, more than 2100 downloads of these datasets Provide researchers with access to a computing environment that takes advantage of Grid-based infrastructures –Large scale compute resources are available to NA-MIC researchers (i.e. BIRN, TeraGrid, Optiputer)

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing How do we fit with NAMIC BIRN provides a stable and evolving production infrastructure for support of the distributed collaborative NA-MIC sites Incorporation of NA-MIC toolkit in integrated BIRN software stack NA-MIC extends BIRN environment which helps shape, mature and enhance the deployed BIRN cyberinfrastructure BIRN Focus: infrastructure, data integration, distributed data and computing e.g. Provides shared image databases and high speed network/computing for NA-MIC Focus: algorithms, engineering, general software tools e.g. Analysis of tensor and non-tensor diffusion data at three algorithm groups (UNC, Utah, MGH), hosted on BIRN servers from four clinical sites (Dartmouth, Harvard, UCI, U of Toronto) Infrastructure, Data Requirements, testing, tools