EFN Enterprises Team | SGI Medical Research Solution

SGI Medical Research Solution

With each new generation of medical scanning technology, spatial resolution has dramatically improved. Yet the unprecedented image quality and detail from the latest scanning systems mean that the amount of information that must be processed has grown exponentially, taxing the ability of standard commodity desktop workstations to process and display the data in a timely fashion. As a result, more clinicians are now looking toward volume exploration, rather than a multitude of static scans, as an efficient and more constructive use of scan data.

In medical research, real-time ray tracing plays an increasingly important role as a resource-efficient way to visualize this growing body of patient data. With the advent of high-performance, lower-cost processing technology, and sophisticated software ray tracing engines, ray tracing is now an attractive option for real-time rendering of ever larger volumes of data. Key to this transformation is the availability of cost-efficient, 64-bit HPC processors that leverage shared-memory architectures, making the entire system's memory available to render the entire data set.

In the medical field, SGI® Altix® servers, SGI® Altix® XE servers and clusters, and storage solutions enable:

3D data classification, segmentation, and manipulation, which allows surgeons to visualize key portions of patient data to enable less invasive procedures and treatments
Patient data and CAD model integration, which combines patient-specific information with implant models to assist in pre-operative planning of implant procedure
Sub-cellular analysis, which enables a microscopic and macroscopic understanding of the behavior of cancer or other cells both at the cellular level and within the context of tissue sections
Shared access and transparent access to archive data without administrator intervention. Workflow is improved with scalable storage systems with the I/O capability necessary to move data to and from storage, without impeding productivity

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