Fast Medical Image Reconstruction using Graphics Processing Unit
Subtitle: Towards Real-Time Reconstruction of Magnetic Resonance Images
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Published: 11 August 2011
Place of publication: Dudweiler Landstr, Saarbrücke, Germany
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9783639376777
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: Introduction	1; title: 1.1	Overview	1; title: 1.2	Problem Statement	1; title: 1.3	Related Work	2; title: 1.4	Goals and Objectives of the Work	3; title: 1.5	Scope of Work	3; title: 1.6	Organization of the Book	3; title: Chapter 2: Image Processing	5; title: 2.1	Image Acquisition	5; title: 2.2	Image Representation	5; title: 2.3	Image Processing	6; title: 2.3.1	Fundamental Steps in Image Processing	8; title: 2.4	Applications of Image Processing	9; title: Chapter 3: The Fourier Transformations in Image Processing	11; title: 3.1	Background	11; title: 3.2	Fourier Transform and its Inverse	11; title: 3.3	Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)	13; title: 3.4	Fast Fourier Transform	14; title: Chapter 4: Magnetic Resonance Imaging	17; title: 4.1	Introduction	17; title: 4.2	Overview of MRI	17; title: 4.3	MR-Imaging principles	18; title: 4.3.1	Fourier Transform Principles	18; title: 4.4	MRI Data Acquisition and K-Space Data	20; title: 4.4.1	MRI Data Acquisition	20; title: 4.4.2	K-Space Data	21; title: 4.5	Image Reconstruction	22; title: 4.5.1	Application of Inverse FFT to K-Space Data	23; title: Chapter 5: Graphics Processing Unit	25; title: 5.1	Background	25; title: 5.2	GPU Programming Premier	25; title: 5.3	Parallel Computing Architectures and Models	26; title: 5.3.1	NVidia CUDA	26; title: 5.3.2	CUDA Program Structure	27; title: 5.3.3	Kernel Functions and Threading	28; title: 5.3.4	CUDA Memory model	29; title: 5.4	CUFFT - FFT for CUDA	30; title: 5.4.1	Sample Code for 2D Complex-to-Real FFT Using CUFFT	31; title: 5.5	FFTW – FFT for CPU	32; title: 5.6	CUFFT Performance vs. FFTW	32; title: 5.7	GPUmat - GPU toolbox for MATLAB	33; title: 5.7.1	Benefits and key features:	33; title: 5.7.2	Perfomance	34; title: Chapter 6: Results and Discussions	35; title: 6.1	Experimental Setup	35; title: 6.1.1	Hardware Requirements	35; title: 6.1.2	Required Software and Tools	36; title: 6.1.3	Experimental Images and Data	36; title: 6.2	Simulation Results	37; title: 6.2.1	Lena image Reconstruction	37; title: 6.2.2	Airplane image Reconstruction	39; title: 6.2.3	Earth2k image Reconstruction	40; title: 6.2.4	Simulation Summary	42; title: 6.3	MR-Image Reconstruction	43; title: 6.3.1	MRI Reconstruction Speedup by GPU than CPU	44; title: Chapter 7: Conclusion	46; title: 7.1	Summary	46; title: 7.2	Limitations and Future Work	46; title: 7.3	Conclusion	47