Real-time stereographic rendering and display of medical images with programmable GPUs
University of Pittsburgh, 300 Halket Street, Suite 4200, Pittsburgh, PA 15231
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society, Vol. 32, No. 2. (March 2008), pp. 118-123
@article{wang2008real,
title={Real-time stereographic rendering and display of medical images with programmable GPUs},
author={Wang, X.H. and Good, W.F.},
journal={Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics},
volume={32},
number={2},
pages={118–123},
issn={0895-6111},
year={2008},
publisher={Elsevier}
}
The study was to explore the power and feasibility of using programmable graphics processing units (GPUs) for real-time rendering and displaying large 3D medical datasets for stereoscopic display workstation. Lung cancer screening CT images were used for developing GPU-based stereo rendering and displaying. The study was run on a personal computer with a 128 MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100 graphics card. The performance of rendering and displaying was measured and compared between GPU-based and central processing unit (CPU)-based programming. The results indicate that GPU-based programming was capable of rendering large 3D datasets at real-time interactive rates with stereographic displays.
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