As 3d medical imaging and high performance computing power improve the significant promise of virtual endoscopy for non invasive endoscopic screening and diagnosis will be realized the bir is aggressively pursuing these developments in collaboration with the departments of radiology surgery gastroenterology and thoracic diseases. High performance computing as realized nowadays through service oriented infrastructures cloud s and grids can serve as a means to provide resources of any kind to biomedical applications. Leading researchers have contributed state of the art chapters to this overview of high performance computing in biomedical research the book includes over 30 pages of color illustrations some of the important topics featured in the book include the following. High performance computing in biomedical applications article pdf available in procedia computer science 1810 19 december 2013 with 191 reads how we measure reads. High performance computing in biomedical research doi link for high performance computing in biomedical research by theo c pilkington bruce loftis thomas palmer thomas f budinger