3D nonlinear complex-diffusion filter on GPU

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012:2012:110-3. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6345883.

Abstract

The ramp preserving 2D nonlinear complex-diffusion filter introduced by Gilboa et al. (2004) was extended to 3D (Maduro et al., 2012). We propose a graphical processing unit implementation of the 3D filter for an overall faster processing in order to be used in a clinical setting. We perform a search for the best diffusion parameters (the number of iterations and spread of the diffusivity) for the 2D and 3D filters and compare their results resorting to synthetic spectral-domain optical coherence tomography volumetric data and several quantitative metrics. Execution time improvement of our implementation versus a single-core approach is also presented, showing that it allows for a full 3D volume to be processed under 7.5 seconds.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / instrumentation*
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*