GPU accelerated fuzzy connected image segmentation by using CUDA

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 6341-6344

  Zhuge, Ying ^a   Cao, Yong ^b   Miller, Robert W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURE(CUDA); FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; PARALLEL COM- PUTING; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; SEQUENTIAL IMPLEMENTATION; SPEED-UP FACTORS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77950975463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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