Data-Parallel MRI Brain Segmentation in Clinicial Use
- Structural MRI brain analysis and segmentation is a crucial part in the daily routine in neurosurgery for intervention planning. Exemplarily, the free software FSL-FAST (FMRIB’s Segmentation Library – FMRIB’s Automated Segmentation Tool) in version 4 is used for segmentation of brain tissue types. To speed up the segmentation procedure by parallel execution, we transferred FSL-FAST to a General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) using Open Computing Language (OpenCL) [1]. The necessary steps for parallelization resulted in substantially different and less useful results. Therefore, the underlying methods were revised and adapted yielding computational overhead. Nevertheless, we achieved a speed-up factor of 3.59 from CPU to GPGPU execution, as well providing similar useful or even better results.
Author: | Joachim Weber, Christian Doenitz, Alexander BrawanskiORCiD, Christoph PalmORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46224-9_67 |
Parent Title (German): | Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2015; Algorithmen - Systeme - Anwendungen; Proceedings des Workshops vom 15. bis 17. März 2015 in Lübeck |
Subtitle (German): | Porting FSL-Fastv4 to GPGPUs |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | conference proceeding (article) |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2015 |
Release Date: | 2019/12/20 |
Tag: | Brain Segmentation; General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Parallel Execution; Voxel Spacing |
GND Keyword: | Kernspintomografie; Gehirn; Bildsegmentierung; Parallelverarbeitung |
First Page: | 389 |
Last Page: | 394 |
Institutes: | Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik |
Regensburg Center of Biomedical Engineering - RCBE | |
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik / Regensburg Medical Image Computing (ReMIC) | |
Begutachtungsstatus: | peer-reviewed |
research focus: | Lebenswissenschaften und Ethik |
Licence (German): | Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG |