Internet2 and the Health Sciences: Implications for TJU

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Internet2 and the Health Sciences Implications
for TJU
Jennifer MacDougallApplications Coordinator,
MAGPI GigaPoP TJU Research Services
ForumNovember 24, 2003
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What is Internet2?

• Born in 1996 by UCAID
• Led by over 200 US universities, K20, and
  corporations
• Recreating the partnership among academia,
  industry and government that fostered todays
  Internet in its infancy
• Mission Develop and deploy advanced network
  applications and technologies, accelerating the
  creation of tomorrows Internet

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Internet2 Mission

• Facilitate and coordinate the development,
  operation and technology transfer of advanced,
  network-based applications and network services
  to further U.S. leadership in research and higher
  education and accelerate the availability of new
  services and applications on the Internet.

• Collaboration
• Videoconferencing
• Distributed learning
• Digital libraries
• Remote instrumentation
• Tele-immersion
• Virtual reality
• On-demand video
• Remote mentoring/auditioning
• Rehearsal and performance

Qwest Abilene Network
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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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Internet2 Universities
205 University Members
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Internet2 International Partners
Last updated 7 October 2003
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MAGPI GigaPoP

• Mission
• To deliver regional infrastructure in a
  cost-effective manner and promote applications
  for the region's research and education
  communities through high performance network
  technology.

• Regional network aggregation point
• Private research and education network
• Sharing point for information, resources,
  projects

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MAGPI Topology
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Current Members

• Arcadia University
• Villanova University
• Chester County Intermediate Unit
• Community of Agile Partners in Education
• Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
• Delaware County Intermediate Unit
• Fox Chase Cancer Center
• Johnson Johnson Pharmaceuticals
• Lehigh University
• Princeton University
• Temple University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Widener University
• CERMUSA / St. Francis University
• Thomas Jefferson University
• NJEDge.Net The state RE Network for N. J.

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Proposed/Upcoming Members

• Montgomery County Community College
• Montgomery County Intermediate Unit
• University of Delaware
• Carbon Lehigh IU
• Lehigh Valley Hospital
• PCOM
• WHYY
• Philadelphia Public School District / IU
• Academy of Natural Sciences
• Curtis Institute of Music
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Franklin Institute

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Why have Internet2?

• The Regular or Commodity Internet was not
  designed for
• Millions of users
• Congestion
• Multimedia
• Real time interaction

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People on the Internet
Millions of People
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Comparison of Download Times of The Matrix DVD
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Internet2 Applications
What are Internet2 applications?

• They deliver qualitative and quantitative
  improvements in how we conduct research and
  engage in teaching and learning
• They require advanced networks to work

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Application Attributes

• Interactive collaboration
• Real-time access to remote resources

Mark Ellisman, UCSD
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Attributes, cont.

• Large-scale, multi-site computation and data
  mining
• Shared virtual reality
• Any combination of the above

Glen Wheless, Old Dominion
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Different Disciplines/Contexts

• Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
• Health care
• Business/Law
• Administration

• Library
• Classroom
• Clinic
• Office
• Laboratory
• Dorm room

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Healthcare in the Information Age
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Health Science and Information Technology Overlap

• More new information will be created in the next
  2 years than throughout our entire history
• Instantaneous global collaboration is the next
  killer application
• Medical science will not be possible without
  advanced computing solutions
• Research development will rely increasingly on
  academic industry partnerships

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In the modern era every century has had its
major advance that has brought medical science
another giant step forward...What will the
major advance of the 21st century be?I am
convinced that the medical revolution of our
childrens lifetimes lifetimes will be the
application of Information technology to health
care.

• Secretary Tommy Thompson, 21 March 2003

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Why Internet2

• The student who will enter medical school in 5
  10 years can absorb multiple channels of
  information

Dynamic charts
Second screen
lecture
Communal note taking
messaging
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The Internet of the Future and the Future of
Medicine

• High bandwidth human interaction
• Low latency virtual reality
• Reliable access to computational resources
• Secure retrieval of medical images and data

Image courtesy of Dr. Christopher Johnson,
Director of the SCI Institute
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The Scope of the Internet2 Health Science
initiative includes clinical practice, medical
and related biological research, education, and
medical awareness in the Public.
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Roadmap

• Networking Health Prescriptions for the
  Internet
• National Research Council Report
• Current and future Internet
• Released 24 February 2000
• National Academy Press
• ISBN 0-309-06843-6

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Inter-Disciplinary Partnerships Catalyse New Uses

• Direct Visualizations
• Data Collection/Integration
• Data Mining
• Device Intercommunication
• Haptic Immersion
• Augmented Dexterity
• Advanced Sensors
• Wireless Data Collection
• Economic Models for Reimbursement Realities

Image courtesy of Dr. Christopher Johnson,
Director of the SCI Institute
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Distributed Medical Informatics Education

• Covers a broad range of fields including
  electronic medical records and information
  retrieval
• Distance learning provides students with access
  to faculty, expertise, and other students

Oregon Health Science University and the
University of Pittsburgh
http//www.ohsu.edu/bicc-informatics/ http//www.c
bmi.upmc.edu/ Funded by NLM
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PathMiner Project
1) National repository of digitized pathology
specimens. 2) Web-based telemedicine/computer
assisted diagnosis. 3) Elucidate role of protein
expression in determining morphology for a
spectrum of malignancies.
David J. Foran, Ph.D.
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PIC Simulation and Dose Calculations

• PIC Simulations to study proton acceleration
  using laser induced plasmas
• Collaborating with JAERI and NTT of Japan who
  provide computational facilities, FCCC provides
  the clinical application of this research
• Data transfer requirements of up to 10 Gb
• Goal to provide theoretical basis for laser
  accelerated proton beam radiotherapy
• Monte Carlo Studies
• Accurate dose calculation and treatment
  validation for radiotherapy
• Typical data package for remote dose computation
  is about 100-500 Mb
• Goal is to establish network based treatment
  planning and dose verification for radiotherapy

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Johnson Johnson

• I2 connects four
• research sites
• Raritan, NJ
• San Diego, CA
• Mountainview, CA
• Beerse, Belgium
• Investigating new methods of communication,
  collaboration and visualization
• Researching integration of scientific
  instrumentation (e.g., laser capture microscopes
  across the Access Grid)

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Grand Challenge CyberInfrastructure
  Organism(person) Organ Tissue Cell
Protein Atom organ systems
(1m) (10-3m) (10-6m)
(10-9m) (10-12m) (10-15m)
        
 
Modeling, Simulation, Visualization, Software
Frameworks, Databases, Networking, Grids
Courtesy Peter Hunter, University of Auckland
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Digital Interactive Virtual Environments

• Students in CS, IT, engineering, math and
  medicine support emerging technology, research
  and discovery
• Interdisciplinary learning, training and problem
  solving creating learning families and project
  teams
• Leverage scarce specialized resources

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Anatomy and Surgery Workbench and Local NGI
Testbed Networkhttp//haiti.stanford.edu/ngi/fin
al/

• Stanford School of Medicine
• Allows students to learn anatomy and practice
  surgery techniques using 3-D workstations
• Network testbed evaluates the effectiveness of
  workbench applications

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Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)
www.nbirn.net

• A scalable testbed for biomedical knowledge
  infrastructure
• Federated database of neuroimaging data (Brain
  MRI)
• Fusion of diverse data sources (location data
  aggregation)
• Grid access to computational resources
• Develop datamining software
• Wireless connections for enhanced access

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Human Embryo Development

• 3-D visualizations of human embryo development
• Doctors can manipulate data remotely
• Animations of embryo system development for
  students

George Mason University, Oregon Health Science
University, National Library of Medicine
http//www.nac.gmu.edu/visembryo.htm http//www.oh
su.edu/chrc/
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National Digital Mammography Archive (NDMA)
University of Toronto
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Oakridge National Laboratory
University of North Carolina
Images courtesy of Dr. Robert Hollebeek, NCSA
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NDMA Case StudyEarly Detection
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Molecular Interactive Collaborative Environment
(MICE)

• Interactive 3D
• Multiple physical locations interact via the
  network
• Collaboratively examine and manipulate a shared
  3D macromolecule
• Real-time

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Virtual Laboratories

• Real-time access to remote instruments
• University of North Carolina, Chapel
  HillDistributed nanoManipulator

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California Orthopaedic Research Network CORN and
EastORN

• Goal to enable lifelong learning for orthopaedic
  surgeons
• Requires high speed networks for real time
  streaming of live surgeries, 3D visualization
• Network based teaching tools (e.g, haptics)

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xORN Model

• Will be applied to fit strengths of the region -
  Nanotech, Biomedical Engineering, Cancer,
  Radiology,
• Will also be applied to Non-Medical Domains
  Egyptology, Archeology,
• Is about building communities and networks and
  bridging technologists and doctors/faculty

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EastORN Reach

• MA Goddard Gigapop and NOX
• WPI, Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis,
  Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, UConn, U.
  Maine, U. Mass, Amherst, UNH, URI, U. Vermont,
  Yale,
• NY Nysernet
• Columbia, NYU, Weill Medical College of Cornell,
  Rockefeller Univ., Syracuse, U. Rochester,
  Cornell, SUNY Stony Brook,
• PA MAGPI, PSC
• Penn, Princeton, Rutgers, UMDNJ, Temple, Fox
  Chase Cancer Center, CHOP, TJU, JJ, CMU, Penn
  State, PSC, U. Pittsburgh, West Virginia
  University,
• Ohio OARnet
• Bowling Green, Case Western, Cleveland, Kent
  State, Ohio U, Ohio State, U. Akron, U.
  Cincinnati, U. Toledo, Wright State U,
• MD MAX
• NIH, NLM, NSF, SURA, George Washington,
  Georgetown, HHMI, Catholic University of America,
  NSF,

(MA)
(CT)
MAGPI
(NJ)
(RI)
(DE)
MAX
MAX (Washington DC)
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The Research Channel

• www.researchchannel.org
• Goal to use program content creation and
  manipulation processes as testing medium for
  analog and digital broadcast and on-demand
  multimedia offerings, thus providing an unusual
  opportunity to experiment with new methods of
  distribution and interaction on a global basis.

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High Performance Group-to-Group Collaboration
150 sites worldwide
http//www.accessgrid.org/
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Teleimmersion
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Internet2 Detectivehttp//detective.internet2.edu
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• Provides information about
• Internet2 backbone connectivity
• General bandwidth (using NLANR iPerf)
• Multicast capability
• Bandwidth between any two computers with
  Internet2 Detective installed
• Version 3.0 released 18 July 2003
• Available for MS Windows and Mac OS X
• Future development and support to be based on
  interest from the Internet2 community

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The Internet2 Commonshttp//commons.internet2.edu
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Mission Accelerating adoption of collaboration
technologies Member-driven services Scalable and
sustainable
H.323 Multipoint Videoconferencing Face-to-face
communication over IP Standards-based, endpoint
interoperability Features onscreen display
options, streaming, firewall traversal, 24/7 help
desk,
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Benefits of Internet2

• Collaboration Building
• Increased Opportunities for Grant
• Ability to tap into remote expertise and
  experiences
• Best way to bring together distributed data and
  advanced technologies (i.e., haptics, 3-D, VR,
  etc)
• Ability to bring the world into the classroom
• Collaboration with Internet2 Member Communities

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• But its got to start with you!

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Get involved

• Talk with your campus IT group and local
  Internet2 liaison
• Join an Internet2 Working Group, Special Interest
  Group, Advisory Group and BoF
• Explore technical discussions
• Formulate deliverables
• Publications
• Best practices
• Policy
• Implementation strategies
• Bring together thought leaders

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Health Science Advisory Group

• Government affiliate National Institutes of
  Health
• National Library of Medicine
• National Center for Research Resources
• Industry representation
• Johnson and Johnson
• University thought leaders
• Applied Clinical Research
• Learning Technologies (e-Learning)
• Scientific Researchers

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Health Science Activities

• Medical Middleware Working Group
• Jack Buchanan, MD (UTMEM)
• Steve Olshansky, facilitator
• Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group
• Chad Smith,MD (USC)
• Ed Johansen, JD, facilitator
• BioEthics Working Group
• John Yost, PhD (Bradley University)
• Security SIG
• Jere Retzer (OHSU)
• Veterinary Medical SIG
• Gary Allen, DVM (Umissouri)
• Cardiology SIG
• David Sahn, MD (OHSU)

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Member Requests for Future Health Science Working
Groups

• Radiology
• Cardiology
• Pathology
• Ophthalmology
• Dentistry
• Nursing
• Preventative Medicine

• Simulation and Imaging
• Telemedicine and Robotics
• International Education
• Biomedical Engineering
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Nanotechnology

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More Information

• http//www.magpi.net
• http//www.internet2.edu
• http//health.internet2.edu/

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Thank You!
jmacdoug_at_magpi.net