Neurolog was a 4 years scientific project (2007-2010) funded by the french ANR (National Agency for Research) under contract number ANR-06-TLOG-024.The NeuroLOG project developed a distributed platform to support multi-centric studies in neurosciences. The platform is deployed over 5 neuroscience centers spread all over France (Grenoble, Nice, Paris, Rennes). It enables neurodata stores federation, neurodata analysis pipelines description and delivers grid computing capability to support data-intensive experiments in a secured environment. The NeuroLOG middleware is non-intrusive: it interfaces to the legacy neurodatabases available at each center participating in the federation. It includes a rich domain ontology and mediation layer to align the data representation of federated neurodatabases in a comprehensive, common view.

Johan Montagnat

The Virtual Imaging Platform project (VIP) is a french project supported by ANR (ANR-09-COSI-03 grant) aiming at sharing medical image simulation resources. This includes the development of ontologies to describe the content of the models used in medical image simulation. This ontology can be used to annotate such models in order to highlight the different entities that are present in the 3D scene to be imaged, i.e. anatomical structures, pathological structures, foreign bodies, contrast agents etc. The model allows also to associate to these entities information about their physical qualities, which are used in the medical image simulation process (to mimick physical phenomena involved in CT, MR, US and PET imaging).

Tristan Glatard