Improving the execution performance of freesurfer: A new scheduled pipeline scheme for optimizing the use of CPU and GPU resources

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 413-421

  Delgado, J ^a   Moure, J C ^a   Vives Gilabert, Y ^a   Delfino, M ^a   Espinosa, A ^a   Gomez Anson B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

CUDA; FreeSurfer; GPU; Medical imaging; MRI; Resource scheduler

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84904758218     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-013-9214-1     Document Type: Article

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