National Center for High-performance Computing
Smart Biomedicine
- Biomedical Information – NCHC Life Science Cloud
- Biomedical Imaging
- Flycircuit :3D Brain Image Database
- Medical Image Illustrator & VIML VR Viewer
- Data Management and Large Scale Visualization System for XBrain Image Data
Based on high performance computing cluster and cloud server, this platform provides libraries, software, and packages for analysis and computing in realm of life science, medicine, and agriculture. The platform is optimized to fit characteristics of biological data to improve computing services.
With regard to applications, it can be used for large scale genome analysis and computing, comparison of genomes, correlation analysis, searching for biomarkers and specific image patterns, and searching for pathogens and decoding the blueprint of life based on genetic background, so as to explore the mysteries of life science. Furthermore, disease-related biomarkers and artificial intelligence identification models can be established for applications in agricultural and precision medical testing products. The cloud analysis platform's services will help meet demands on analyzing big data from routine tests in the field of automated agriculture and clinical medicine. NCHC also provides customized service on setting up R&D analysis platforms, biological information systems and database.
Lifescience Informatics ON-cloud ServicesWebsite（Open in a new window）
Contact Person：Mr. Wang
iSlide : A Cloud-Based Pathology Images Collaborative Platform
iSlide is a personal web-based virtual microscopy platform allowing users to view, search, annotate, and quantify high-resolution digital whole-slide images (WSIs) via the internet in real-time, and the features of iSlide are listed below.
(a) For visualizing digital pathology slides from overview to cellular details in less than a second.
(b) Supports various digital pathology slides formats, and device.
(c) Scalable cloud storage with high-performance and high-security server.
(d) Collaborate and share visualization and diagnostics annotation easily.
(e) The Lesion level annotations are saved as XML and JSON.
(f) Standardization input/output interface for creating deep learning image analysis algorithm in pathological diagnosis.
iSlide Website（Open in a new window）
Contact Person：Mr. Zhuang
Biologists have always been interested in researching the structure of neural networks. Researchers believe that the topographic structure of neurons is closely related to the neuropathway and message delivery in neural transmission, which will allow understanding of the functional role played by neurons. Therefore, the NCHC utilized its high performance computing and big data collection and analysis capabilities to assist domestic academia with research on brain neural networks. This enabled the mapping of message delivery throughout the entire brain, and established a database (Flycircuit) containing about 30,000 3D brain images, making it the world's largest 3D brain image database for a single species. It is also the only tool that researchers can use to predict neuropathways. Hence, researchers can use this complete brain image database to find pathogens and treatments for neurodegenerative disease.
3D Brain Image Database
Flycircuit Website（Open in a new window）
Contact Person：Mr. Zhuang
- Introduction
- A total solution for biomedical image from processing to visualization and interaction in VR
- Miil (Medical image illustrator)
- VVViewer (Visualization interactive media lab's VR Viewer)
- Scientific Breakthrough
- Using Miil software, we can import DICOM format image then labeling and segment the image directly. After processing the image, we can export the data and import to VVViewer for visualization and interaction in 3D VR environment.
- Industry Applications
- Image labeling and segmentation.
- Tools for AI supervised data preparation.
- Virtual Reality.
- Training and education.
- Surgery planning.
- Doctor-Patient Relationship.
VIML Website（Open in a new window）
Contact Person：Mr. Chang
- Introduction
- Scientific Breakthrough
- Bio-image data from FlyCircuit to MouseCircuit.
- Industry Applications
- Data management system: Fast I/O with parallel file system, a new database software dedicated to perform imaging-based research, and a new pl