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This article describes the problems and possible solutions for optimization of medical images storing, providing stable and secure access, based on the distributed warehouse for huge volumes of data with different levels of access providing. The standard for working with medical images is the DICOM format, which allows storing images in good quality. The main problem of data storing in DICOM format is caused by the fact that one investigation can has more than one-gigabyte volume of data and consist of thousands of images. In Moldova in 2015 was launched “DICOM Network” project, whose goal is to provide access to investigations for medical staff with the appropriate access rights, as well as to patients to their personal radiography investigations. Now the system collects and processing more than 500 gigabytes of data every month. In the article, we describe and analyze possible solutions for optimizing data storing and processing workflows.
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This project is supported by the Agency for Innovation and Technology Transfer of Moldova, Grant Contract No186T dated 27 February 2015 and by European Commission H2020 project RE for regional Interdisciplinary communities in Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean (VI-SEEM) Grant Agreement 675121.
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Golubev, A., Bogatencov, P., Secrieru, G. (2017). Optimal Methods of Storage, Transfer and Processing of DICOM Data in Medical Information Systems. In: Vishnevskiy, V., Samouylov, K., Kozyrev, D. (eds) Distributed Computer and Communication Networks. DCCN 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 700. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66836-9_23
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