Published: 2015-02-07

Introduction to the Special Issue on Cloud for Health

Jesus Carretero, Javier Garcia-Blas, Sandra Gesing

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Cloud Computing in Healthcare and Biomedicine

Barbara Calabrese, Mario Cannataro

1-18

Performance Comparison and Tuning of Virtual Machines For Sequence Alignment Software

Zachary John Estrada, Fei Deng, Zachary Stephens, Cuong Pham, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar Iyer

71-84

Extending XNAT towards a Cloud-based Quality Assessment Platform for Retinal Optical Coherence Tomographies

Christoph Jansen, Maximilian Beier, Michael Witt, Jie Wu, Dagmar Krefting

85-102

A Tool for Managing the X1.V1 Platform on the Cloud

Emanuel Marzini, Paolo Mori, Sergio Di Bona, Davide Guerri, Marco Lettere, Laura Ricci

103-120