Survey of using GPU CUDA programming model in medical image analysis. (2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kalaiselvi, T.; Sriramakrishnan, P.; Somasundaram, K.
• Is Part Of: Informatics in medicine unlocked. Volume 9(2017)
• Page Start: 133
• Page End: 144
• Publication Date: 2017
• Subjects: GPU CUDA -- Medical imaging -- Parallel computing -- Denoising -- Segmentation -- Visualization; Medical informatics -- Periodicals; 610.285
• DOI: 10.1016/j.imu.2017.08.001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2352-9148

Abstract

Abstract: With the technology development of medical industry, processing data is expanding rapidly and computation time also increases due to many factors like 3D, 4D treatment planning, the increasing sophistication of MRI pulse sequences and the growing complexity of algorithms. Graphics processing unit (GPU) addresses these problems and gives the solutions for using their features such as, high computation throughput, high memory bandwidth, support for floating-point arithmetic and low cost. Compute unified device architecture (CUDA) is a popular GPU programming model introduced by NVIDIA for parallel computing. This review paper briefly discusses the need of GPU CUDA computing in the medical image analysis. The GPU performances of existing algorithms are analyzed and the computational gain is discussed. A few open issues, hardware configurations and optimization principles of existing methods are discussed. This survey concludes the few optimization techniques with the medical imaging algorithms on GPU. Finally, limitation and future scope of GPU programming are discussed.