Within the program group, the new equipment will provide secure storage of large amounts of medical data, especially images of various modalities, which will enable the development and testing of new procedures for the analysis of large amounts of medical data. With the new equipment and the most advanced deep learning techniques, we will develop and evaluate predictive models for a wide variety of medical conditions and pathologies, both based on MR images and unstructured data. We will focus on predictive models for neurological, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases as well as neck and head cancer, where the Laboratory of Imaging Technologies has been performing quantitative analyzes of MR images for UKC-LJ, Oncology Institute Ljubljana, UKC-MB and seven regional hospitals since 2015. The new equipment offers a comprehensive solution for safe storage of up to 1 PB of data with efficient cryptographic protection and logging of access to sensitive databases. Data transfer to dedicated servers for image analysis takes place over connections with a total bandwidth exceeding 100 Gb/s. The system can be easily upgraded with standard external storage units (JBOD) compliant with the HBA interface, with a total bandwidth of 200 Gb/s.
