Hadoop-Based Medical Image Storage and Access Method for Examination Series

• Main Authors: Xin Huang, Wenlong Yi, Jiwei Wang, Zhijian Xu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2021-01-01
• Series: Mathematical Problems in Engineering
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5525009

Under the background of electronic medical data, doctors use electronic images to replace the traditional film for diagnosis, and patients can view examination images at any time through various electronic means. The storage and frequent reading of massive data bring new challenges. Given the characteristics of the size and quantity of image files generated by different examination types, different merging strategies are proposed to improve the storage performance of the files; according to the characteristics of medical data with examination as the basic unit, a two-level model combined with medical imaging information is proposed. The indexing mechanism solves the problem that SEQ files cannot be read randomly without an index; given the time characteristics of data access, an improved 2Q algorithm is proposed to cache the prefetched files and the read files in different cache queues, which improves the efficiency of file reading. In the experimental comparison, the proposed algorithm surpasses the baseline method in storage and access performance.