Biomedical images, such as X-ray, CT scan, MRI, etc., are extensively used in diagnosis of diseases, research & teaching in medical science, administration & management of hospital, information for the third party like medico-legal situation & health insurance, and so on. An integrated and efficient biomedical image management system is very essential for the modern healthcare system. In this regard, a prototype system is designed using Java Server Pages in the frontend and MySQL in the backend. And it is applied in three hospitals, named Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan, Hospital Selayang, and Hospital Kuala Lumpur. From these three case studies, it is seen that our designed biomedical image management system possesses several attractive features including user friendly, secured and stable, extensible and able to support all image modality, integrated with the hospital information system.

The results show that vitiligo are quite prevalent and constitute a major psychological health problem in Bangladesh. The occurrence of diabetes mellitus, liver function test, renal function test, hypertension related to lipid profile and others biochemical test like uric acid, hemoglobin and specially performed T3, T4, TSH for thyroid diseases were more frequent among the patients. Particularly thyroid diseases and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus had a great interrelation with vitiligo. Significant change in serum total protein among the patients of age group below 10 and 11-20 years was observed. No major changes were observed for ALT, AST, ALP, TC, HDL, TG and LDL. Disease incidence was the highest 44% among 11-20 years age group. In the case of sex incidence the female patients were 56%; on the other hand male recorded 44%. The students were the highest percentage (48%) suffering with vitiligo. The lesion of the vitiligo patients was seen 85% on the exposed parts of the body. Family history was the most important and 32% patients told that they had prior family history. Eighty percent patients expressed that most of the persons avoid them for marital relationship.

Solving the grand challenge problems in many areas such as development of new materials and sources of energy, development of new medicines and improved health care, strategies for disaster prevention and mitigation, and for scientific research including the origins of matter and the universe, requires Teraflops performance for more than a thousand hours at a time. In future, we will need Petaflops or Exaflops level of computation power. To achieve this level of performance, we need massively parallel computer (MPC) systems with millions of nodes. k-ary n-cube is a node and edge symmetric regular network, which has an ability to exploit locality exhibited by many parallel applications. However, high wiring complexity make it insatiable for a network consisting of millions of nodes. Hierarchical interconnection network (HIN) is an efficient way to interconnect the future MPC systems. k-ary n-cube based HIN is a plausible alternative way because each level of hierarchy have toroidal interconnections. Several k-ary n-cube based HINs and their routing algorithm, static network performance, and dynamic communication performance has been extensively studied in this book.