Dicoogle relay - a cloud communications bridge for medical imaging

Over the last decades, information systems for medical imaging sharing are imposing themselves as important tools for the diagnostic and study of pathologies. One of the most important advantages of those systems is to allow widespread sharing and remote access to medical data. Nevertheless, there is no simple solution for imaging data exchange between multiple places due to bureaucratic and technical issues. The paradigm introduced by Dicoogle project potentiates queries over a set of distributed repositories, which are logically indexed as a single federate unit. This paper describes a Cloud-based relay service that acts as a bridge of communications between the different institutions, allowing the community to access, share and discover imaging records.