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Second USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS), 1996
Design and Performance of an Object-Oriented Framework
for High-Speed Electronic Medical Imaging
Irfan Pyarali
Eastman Kodak Company, Dallas, Texas
Timothy H. Harrison and Douglas C. Schmidt
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Abstract
This paper describes the design and performance of an object-oriented
communication framework being developed by the Health Imaging division
of Eastman Kodak and the Electronic Radiology Laboratory at Washington
University School of Medicine. The framework is designed to meet the
demands of next-generation electronic medical imaging systems, which
must transfer extremely large quantities of data efficiently and
flexibly in a distributed environment. A novel aspect of this
framework is its seamless integration of flexible high-level CORBA
distributed object computing middleware with efficient low-level
socket network programming mechanisms. In the paper, we outline the
design goals and software architecture of our framework, describe how
we resolved design challenges, and illustrate the performance of the
framework over high-speed ATM networks.
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