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The article presents a technology for building clinical decision support systems (CDSS) based on service containers using Docker and a web interface that runs directly in the browser without installing specialized software on workstation of a clinician. A modular architecture is proposed in which each application module is packaged as an independent service container combining a lightweight web server, a user interface, and computational components for medical image processing. Communication between the browser and the server side is implemented via a persistent bidirectional WebSocket connection with binary message serialization (MessagePack), which provides low latency and efficient transfer of large data. For local storage of images and analysis of results, browser facilities (IndexedDB with the Dexie.js wrapper) are used to speed up repeated data access. Three-dimensional visualization and basic operations with DICOM data are implemented with Three.js and AMI.js: this toolchain supports the integration of interactive elements arising from the task context (annotations, landmarks, markers, 3D models) into volumetric medical images.

Server components and functional modules are assembled as a set of interacting containers managed by Docker. The paper discusses the choice of base images, approaches to minimizing containers down to runtime-only executables without external utilities, and the organization of multi-stage builds with a dedicated build container. It describes a hub service that launches application containers on user request, performs request proxying, manages sessions, and switches a container from shared to exclusive mode at the start of computations. Examples of application modules are provided (fractional flow reserve estimation, quantitative flow ratio computation, aortic valve closure modeling), along with the integration of a React-based interface with a three-dimensional scene, a versioning policy, automated reproducibility checks, and the deployment procedure on the target platform.

It is demonstrated that containerization ensures portability and reproducibility of the software environment, dependency isolation and scalability, while the browser-based interface provides accessibility, reduced infrastructure requirements, and interactive real-time visualization of medical data. Technical limitations are noted (dependence on versions of visualization libraries and data formats) together with practical mitigation measures.

The numerical methods used to simulate the evolution of hydrodynamic systems require the considerable use of computational resources thus limiting the number of possible simulations. The data-driven simulation technique is one promising approach to the development of heuristic models, which may speed up the study of such models. In this approach, machine learning methods are used to tune the weights of an artificial neural network that predicts the state of a physical system at a given point in time based on initial conditions. This article describes an original neural network architecture and a novel multi-stage training procedure which create a heuristic model of a two-phase flow in a heterogeneous porous medium. The neural network-based model predicts the states of the grid cells at an arbitrary timestep (within the known constraints), taking in only the initial conditions: the properties of the heterogeneous permeability of the medium and the location of sources and sinks. The proposed model requires orders of magnitude less processor time in comparison with the classical numerical method, which served as a criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of the trained model. The proposed architecture includes a number of subnets trained in various combinations on several datasets. The techniques of adversarial training and weight transfer are utilized.