Probabilistic brain fiber tractography on GPUs

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 742-751

  Xu, Mo ^a   Zhang, Xiaorui ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Ren, Ling ^a   Wen, Ziyu ^a   Xu, Yi ^a   Gong, Gaolang ^b   Xu, Ningyi ^c   Yang, Huazhong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

DT MRI; GPU; MCMC; Probabilistic fiber tractography; Probabilistic Streamlining

Indexed keywords

DT-MRI; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; GPU; MCMC; PROBABILISTIC STREAMLINING;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84867430877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2012.92     Document Type: Conference Paper

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