Title
Model-based Iterative CT Image Reconstruction on GPUs.
Abstract
Computed Tomography (CT) Image Reconstruction is an important technique used in a variety of domains, including medical imaging, electron microscopy, non-destructive testing and transportation security. Model-based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) using Iterative Coordinate Descent (ICD) is a CT algorithm that produces state-of-the-art results in terms of image quality. However, MBIR is highly computationally intensive and challenging to parallelize, and has traditionally been viewed as impractical in applications where reconstruction time is critical. We present the first GPU-based algorithm for ICD-based MBIR. The algorithm leverages the recently-proposed concept of SuperVoxels, and efficiently exploits the three levels of parallelism available in MBIR to better utilize the GPU hardware resources. We also explore data layout transformations to obtain more coalesced accesses and several GPU-specific optimizations for MBIR that boost performance. Across a suite of 3200 test cases, our GPU implementation obtains a geometric mean speedup of 4.43X over a state-of-the-art multi-core implementation on a 16-core iso-power CPU.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3018743.3018765
PPOPP
Keywords
Field
DocType
Computed Tomography,Model Based Iterative Reconstruction,Iterative Coordinate Descent,Graphics Processing Units
Iterative reconstruction,Suite,Medical imaging,Computer science,Parallel computing,Image quality,Theoretical computer science,Test case,Computed tomography,Coordinate descent,Speedup
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
52
8
0362-1340
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.44
17
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amit Sabne115410.48
Xiao Wang261.13
Sherman J. Kisner3141.71
Charles A. Bouman42740473.62
Anand Raghunathan55375415.27
Samuel Midkiff619310.03