High performance computing for deformable image registration: towards a new paradigm in adaptive radiotherapy

August 11th, 2008

This paper described an implementation of fast deformable image registration using GPUs and CUDA in radiation therapy. Using lung and prostate volumetric imaging, the GPU implementation is 40-66 times faster than a single-threaded CPU implementation and 25-41 times faster than a multithreaded implementation. The paradigm of GPU-based near-real-time deformable image registration opens up a host of clinical applications for medical imaging. ( High performance computing for deformable image registration: Towards a new paradigm in adaptive radiotherapy. (Sanjiv S. Samant, Junyi Xia, Pınar Muyan-Özçelik, John D. Owens. Medical physics, 2008.)

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