Storage Backends

Medical FUSE VFS achieves universal interoperability by acting as an abstraction layer over disparate data sources.

Currently Supported Backends

1. DICOMWeb / PACS: Exposes DICOM instances as standard .dcm files.
2. FHIR Servers: Translates JSON/XML FHIR resources into structured directory trees.
3. OMOP CDM: Maps relational patient cohorts into virtual directories for easy machine learning batch processing.
4. Cloud Object Storage (S3/GCS): Mounts remote buckets as local directories with intelligent block-level caching.