Cost-effective medical image reconstruction: From clusters to Graphics Processing Units

Conference on Computing Frontiers - Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 283-291

  Sehellmann, Maraike ^a   Vörding, Jürgen ^a   Gorlatch, Sergei ^a   Meiländer, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

General purpose GPU programming; List mode OSEM; Medical image reconstruction; Parallel programming

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECODING; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REPAIR; RESTORATION;

DEGREE OF PARALLELISMS; GENERAL PURPOSE GPU PROGRAMMING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; LIST-MODE OSEM; MEDICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIPROCESSOR SERVERS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PARALLEL RECONSTRUCTIONS; PARALLEL STRATEGIES; TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURES;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 56749175736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1366230.1366278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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