Mathieu Acher, Philippe Collet, Philippe Lahire. Issues in Managing Variability of Medical Imaging Grid Services. In MICCAI-Grid Workshop. sep 2008.
In medical image analysis, there exist multifold applications to grids and service-oriented architectures are more and more used to implement such imaging applications. In this context, workflow and service architects have to face an important variability problem related both to the functional description of services, and to the numerous quality of service (QoS) dimensions that are to be considered. In this paper, we analyze such variability issues and establish the requirements of a service product line, which objective is to facilitate variability handling in the image processing chain.