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Jon "Maddog" Hall cites Linux in Medical Applications

Posted by Captain Fantastic on Tuesday April 04, 2000 @ 03:43 AM
from the better-living-through-clusters dept.
Jon "maddog" Hall during his Keynote address at the first annual Colorado Linux Info Quest, cited the University of Sao Paulo for developing a clustered Linux system to interpret mammograms within ten minutes of receipt (via FTP) from the hospital. Digg this article

Maddog noted that this quick turnaround of mammogram results enabled patients needing immediate treatment to be notified before they sometimes even completed the visit paperwork. The sheer speed and power of the clustered Linux supercomputer made this feat possible, as no other technology available was able to come close (20 hours processing time was best time prior).

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Re: Jon "Maddog" Hall cites Linux in Medical Applications
by sal terre on Wednesday April 05, 2000 @ 01:26 AM

great post, i just happened to have a need for a similar system that Hall is talking about. Right now the mammogram imaging is viewed with photoshop at the hospital that i work at, there must be a better solution. i look into the University of Sao Paulo's setup.

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Re: Jon "Maddog" Hall cites Linux in Medical Applications
by sal terre on Wednesday April 05, 2000 @ 07:40 PM

i'm replying to myself, this is odd. well, i could not find any info on this linux cluster that hall was talking about the Sao Paulo website is in spanish. Does anyone have any leads?

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Re: Jon "Maddog" Hall cites Linux in Medical Applications
by Captain Fantastic on Wednesday April 05, 2000 @ 10:32 PM

I found the web site, and then realized there was no apparent english translation. Could drop Maddog a note..

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Re: Jon "Maddog" Hall cites Linux in Medical Applications
by Christoph Langen on Friday May 04, 2001 @ 01:36 PM

I wasn't able to find the mentioned site. If you send me the URL perhaps I can help... I live in Brazil but never heard about that project. Christoph

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Re: Jon "Maddog" Hall cites Linux in Medical Applications
by Saint on Friday May 04, 2001 @ 02:44 PM

Christoph, I never found it either. -- Saint

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Re: Jon "Maddog" Hall cites Linux in Medical Appli
by Eduardo Correia on Sunday November 07, 2004 @ 10:58 PM

http://www.eesc.usp.br/bioeng/encobio2/arquivos/ArquivosTextos/CADERNORESUMO.PDF
I was at the second Internacional Congress of Open Source at Sao Paulo, Brazil and there is the same talk.
The document is in portuguese and it says on page 60 about this project.
The project was made at "UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO" in a campi near (250Km) of Sao Paulo with the help of the eletrical engineering department.
This university is our best and the greatest of latin america. I am very proud to be a USP student.
www.usp.br

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