Cloud solution for Medical Image Analysis

Most of the developed pipelines for MR image analysis are packages that need to be downloaded, installed and configured. Installation step can be complicated and thus may require an experimented person not always available in a research laboratory or clinical context. In addition, users have to be trained to use the software and computational resources have to be allocated to run it. We have tried to overcome all these problems by deploying our volBrain pipeline through a web interface providing not only access to the software but also sharing the computational resources of our institutions. Thus, using the volBrain pipeline does not require any installation, configuration or training. The volBrain platform works remotely through a web interface based on a SaaS (Software as a Service) model to automatically provide a report containing volumetric information.

In this field our main contributions are: i) development of the volBrain platform, ii) the integration of several pipeline covering a large range of neuroimaging applications, and iii) the processing of almost 250.000 MRI for worldwide users.