KEYWORDS: Field programmable gate arrays, Computed tomography, 3D image processing, CT reconstruction, Visualization, Reconstruction algorithms, Medicine, Imaging systems, Digital signal processing, Computing systems
CT imaging in interventional and minimally-invasive surgery
requires high-performance computing solutions that meet
operational room demands, healthcare business requirements, and
the constraints of a mobile C-arm system. The computational
requirements of clinical procedures using CT-like data are
increasing rapidly, mainly due to the need for rapid access to
medical imagery during critical surgical procedures. The highly parallel nature of Radon transform and CT algorithms enables
embedded computing solutions utilizing a parallel processing
architecture to realize a significant gain of computational
intensity with comparable hardware and program coding/testing
expenses. In this paper, using a sample 2D and 3D CT problem, we
explore the programming challenges and the potential benefits of
embedded computing using commodity hardware components. The
accuracy and performance results obtained on three computational
platforms: a single CPU, a single GPU, and a solution based on FPGA technology have been analyzed. We have shown that
hardware-accelerated CT image reconstruction can be achieved with
similar levels of noise and clarity of feature when compared to
program execution on a CPU, but gaining a performance increase at
one or more orders of magnitude faster. 3D cone-beam or helical CT
reconstruction and a variety of volumetric image processing
applications will benefit from similar accelerations.
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