Title
Accelerating compute intensive medical imaging segmentation algorithms using hybrid CPU-GPU implementations.
Abstract
Medical image processing is one of the most famous image processing fields in this era. This fame comes because of the big revolution in information technology that is used to diagnose many illnesses and saves patients lives. There are many image processing techniques used in this field, such as image reconstructing, image segmentation and many more. Image segmentation is a mandatory step in many image processing based diagnosis procedures. Many segmentation algorithms use clustering approach. In this paper, we focus on Fuzzy C-Means based segmentation algorithms because of the segmentation accuracy they provide. In many cases, these algorithms need long execution times. In this paper, we accelerate the execution time of these algorithms using Graphics Process Unit (GPU) capabilities. We achieve performance enhancement by up to 8.9x without compromising the segmentation accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s11042-016-3884-2
Multimedia Tools Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fuzzy C-Means,Possibilistic C-Means,CUDA,Medical image processing,Image segmentation
Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Feature detection (computer vision),Segmentation,Computer science,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image processing,Algorithm,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Digital image processing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
76
3
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
0.93
12
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammad A. Alsmirat113016.98
Yaser Jararweh296888.95
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub373063.41
Mohammed A. Shehab41046.94
Brij Bhooshan Gupta51569.95