Parallel centerline extraction on the GPU

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 72-83

  Liu, Baoquan ^a   Telea, Alexandru C ^b   Roerdink, Jos B T M ^b   Clapworthy, Gordon J ^a   Williams, David ^b   Yang, Po ^a   Dong, Feng ^a   Codreanu, Valeriu ^b,c   Chiarini, Alessandro ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d SCS Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Centerline; GPU techniques; Parallel algorithm; Virtual endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; EXTRACTION; MOTION PLANNING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; CENTERLINES; GPU TECHNIQUES; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; PARALLEL COM- PUTING; SEQUENTIAL ALGORITHM; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY; VISUALIZATION APPLICATION;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 84897418437     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2014.02.003     Document Type: Article

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