A comprehensive comparison of GPU- and FPGA-based acceleration of reflection image reconstruction for 3D ultrasound computer tomography

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• 作者：Matthias Birk (1)
  Michael Zapf (1)
  Matthias Balzer (1)
  Nicole Ruiter (1)
  Jürgen Becker (2)
  
• 关键词：Medical imaging ; Heterogeneous computing ; FPGA ; GPU ; Performance comparison
• 刊名：Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：March 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：9
• 期：1
• 页码：159-170
• 全文大小：1,006 KB
• 作者单位：Matthias Birk (1)
  Michael Zapf (1)
  Matthias Balzer (1)
  Nicole Ruiter (1)
  Jürgen Becker (2)
  
  1. Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
  2. Institute for Information Processing Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
  
• ISSN：1861-8219

文摘

As today’s standard screening methods frequently fail to diagnose breast cancer before metastases have developed, earlier breast cancer diagnosis is still a major challenge. Three-dimensional ultrasound computer tomography promises high-quality images of the breast, but is currently limited by a time-consuming image reconstruction. In this work, we investigate the acceleration of the image reconstruction by GPUs and FPGAs. We compare the obtained performance results with a recent multi-core CPU. We show that both architectures are able to accelerate processing, whereas the GPU reaches the highest performance. Furthermore, we draw conclusions in terms of applicability of the accelerated reconstructions in future clinical application and highlight general principles for speed-up on GPUs and FPGAs.