@neuBrowser - Interactive information system browsing

The @neurIST Project (Integrated Biomedical Informatics for the Management of Cerebral Aneurysms) is a European initiative, focused on intracranial aneurysms and intends to provide an integrated decision support system to assess the risk of aneurysm rupture in patients and to optimize their treatments. This project integrates a large amount of data and information from clinical centres available by a Grid infrastructure. In the project 6 workflows have been developed, which fulfil various subtasks. Here we present Workflow 0, which aims at using the distributed infrastructure to select subsets of patients with dynamically selected properties and provide this information to subsequent workflows. Getting a concise overview on availability and completeness of clinical data is of utmost importance during pre-processing for clinical data mining. @neuBrowser provides this dynamic functionality to get an overview of existing information and browse or analyze the data from all clinical centres using basic statistical functions. In order to inspect data, construct hypothesizes and check assumptions it is helpful for researchers and clinicians to have access to a web based platform with a graphical user interface.