GPU accelerated fuzzy connected image segmentation by using CUDA
Radiation Oncology Branch,, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009
@inproceedings{zhuge2009gpu,
title={GPU accelerated fuzzy connected image segmentation by using CUDA},
author={Zhuge, Y. and Cao, Y. and Miller, R.W.},
booktitle={Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE},
pages={6341–6344},
organization={IEEE},
year={2009}
}
Image segmentation techniques using fuzzy connectedness principles have shown their effectiveness in segmenting a variety of objects in several large applications in recent years. However, one problem of these algorithms has been their excessive computational requirements when processing large image datasets. Nowadays commodity graphics hardware provides high parallel computing power. In this paper, we present a parallel fuzzy connected image segmentation algorithm on Nvidia’s Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) platform for segmenting large medical image data sets. Our experiments based on three data sets with small, medium, and large data size demonstrate the efficiency of the parallel algorithm, which achieves a speed-up factor of 7.2x, 7.3x, and 14.4x, correspondingly, for the three data sets over the sequential implementation of fuzzy connected image segmentation algorithm on CPU.
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