Paper Info
Title
Diffusion tensor fiber tracking on graphics processing units.
Abstract
Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging has been successfully applied to the process of fiber tracking, which determines the location of fiber bundles within the human brain. This process, however, can be quite lengthy when run on a regular workstation. We present a means of executing this process by making use of the graphics processing units of computers’ video cards, which provide a low-cost parallel execution environment that algorithms like fiber tracking can benefit from. With this method we have achieved performance gains varying from 14 to 40 times on common computers. Because of accuracy issues inherent to current graphics processing units, we define a variation index in order to assess how close the results obtained with our method are to those generated by programs running on the central processing units of computers. This index shows that results produced by our method are acceptable when compared to those of traditional programs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.05.006
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Diffusion tensor imaging,Fiber tracking,Graphics processing units,Fiber tracking results comparison,Performance optimization
Journal
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
0895-6111
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.67
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adiel Mittmann1222.32
Eros Comunello26615.04
Aldo von Wangenheim320949.44