Medical image processing on the GPU–Past, present and future

A Eklund, P Dufort, D Forsberg, SM LaConte - Medical image analysis, 2013 - Elsevier
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are used today in a wide range of applications, mainly
because they can dramatically accelerate parallel computing, are affordable and energy …

[HTML][HTML] Medical image segmentation on GPUs–A comprehensive review

E Smistad, TL Falch, M Bozorgi, AC Elster… - Medical image …, 2015 - Elsevier
Segmentation of anatomical structures, from modalities like computed tomography (CT),
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound, is a key enabling technology for medical …

A review of watershed implementations for segmentation of volumetric images

A Kornilov, I Safonov, I Yakimchuk - Journal of Imaging, 2022 - mdpi.com
Watershed is a widely used image segmentation algorithm. Most researchers understand
just an idea of this method: a grayscale image is considered as topographic relief, which is …

Spaghetti labeling: Directed acyclic graphs for block-based connected components labeling

F Bolelli, S Allegretti, L Baraldi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected Components Labeling is an essential step of many Image Processing and
Computer Vision tasks. Since the first proposal of a labeling algorithm, which dates back to …

Optimized block-based algorithms to label connected components on GPUs

S Allegretti, F Bolelli, C Grana - IEEE Transactions on Parallel …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected Components Labeling (CCL) is a crucial step of several image processing and
computer vision pipelines. Many efficient sequential strategies exist, among which one of the …

A new algorithm for parallel connected-component labelling on GPUs

DP Playne, K Hawick - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected-component labelling remains an important and widely-used technique for
processing and analysing images and other forms of data in various application areas …

High-throughput analysis of large microscopy image datasets on CPU-GPU cluster platforms

G Teodoro, T Pan, TM Kurc, J Kong… - 2013 IEEE 27th …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analysis of large pathology image datasets offers significant opportunities for the
investigation of disease morphology, but the resource requirements of analysis pipelines …

An updated review on watershed algorithms

R Romero-Zaliz, JF Reinoso-Gordo - Soft computing for sustainability …, 2018 - Springer
Watershed identification is one of the main areas of study in the field of topography. It is
critical in countless applications including sustainability and flood risk evaluation. Beyond its …

Efficient irregular wavefront propagation algorithms on hybrid CPU–GPU machines

G Teodoro, T Pan, TM Kurc, J Kong, LAD Cooper… - Parallel computing, 2013 - Elsevier
We address the problem of efficient execution of a computation pattern, referred to here as
the irregular wavefront propagation pattern (IWPP), on hybrid systems with multiple CPUs …

A 2d/3d vision based approach applied to road detection in urban environments

GB Vitor, DA Lima, AC Victorino… - 2013 IEEE Intelligent …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an approach for road detection based on image segmentation. This
segmentation is resulted from merging 2D and 3D image processing data from a stereo …