Multiscale integration of biomedical information is becoming a clear need to solve critical problems (e.g. diagnosis, treatment planning, rehabilitation management) in dozens of clinical scenarios (e.g. bone tumours, cerebral palsy in children, large traumatic skeletal defects, paraplegia).
LHDL is aimed at developing the core ICT infrastructure to support the Living Human Project.At the outset a community server (based on Open Source software) will be established for community building and collaborative working. Three software independent, but strongly integrated, frameworks will be developed that will provide all the infrastructural services that the available software cannot provide. The scientific and technological objectives of the project are to create:
- a digital library specifically designed to support a virtual laboratory, with all its aspects and needs;
- an application framework for management, fusion and exchange of biomedical digital data;
- a service framework for the development, the sharing and the choreography of software services;
- knowledge-management framework to manage the repository of data, models and services
For further information, please visit:
http://www.livinghuman.org
Project co-ordinator:
CINECA (IT)
Partners:
- High Performance Systems Dept. CINECA (IT)
- Medical Technology Lab and Movement Analysis Lab, Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, (IT)
- Computer Science Dept. University of Luton (UK)
- Knowledge Media Institute, Open University (UK)
- Anatomy and Embryology Dept. Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
Timetable: from 02/06 to 02/09
Total cost: 3,238,320
EC funding: 2,250,520
Instrument: STREP
Project Identifier: IST-2004-026932