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Multi GPU Based Image Registration for Cerebrovascular Extraction and Interactive Visualization  

Park, Seong-Jin (서울대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
Shin, Yeong-Gil (서울대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
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Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters / v.15, no.6, 2009 , pp. 445-449 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient multi GPU accelerated image registration technique to correct the motion difference between the pre-contrast CT image and post-contrast CTA image. Our method consists of two steps: multi GPU based image registration and a cerebrovascular visualization. At first, it computes a similarity measure considering the parallelism between both GPUs as well as the parallelism inside GPU for performing the voxel-based registration. Then, it subtracts a CT image transformed by optimal transformation matrix from CTA image, and visualizes the subtracted volume using GPU based volume rendering technique. In this paper, we compare our proposed method with existing methods using 5 pairs of pre-contrast brain CT image and post-contrast brain CTA image in order to prove the superiority of our method in regard to visual quality and computational time. Experimental results show that our method well visualizes a brain vessel, so it well diagnose a vessel disease. Our multi GPU based approach is 11.6 times faster than CPU based approach and 1.4 times faster than single GPU based approach for total processing.
Keywords
Multi GPU; image registration; visualization;
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