Medical image processing on the GPU - Past, present and future

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1073-1094

  Eklund, Anders ^a   Dufort, Paul ^b   Forsberg, Daniel ^c,d   LaConte, Stephen M ^a,e  

^a VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Sectra   (Sweden)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CUDA; Graphics processing unit (GPU); Image processing; Image reconstruction; Medical imaging

Indexed keywords

CUDA; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; GPU ACCELERATIONS; GPU IMPLEMENTATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; PAST AND PRESENT; PROCESSING OPERATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

CUDA; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU); IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84881108777     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2013.05.008     Document Type: Review

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