NDLI: Design and implementation of the software architecture for a 3-D reconstruction system in medical imaging

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Scherl, H. Hoppe, S. Kowarschik, M. Hornegger, J.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Siemens Med. Solutions, Erlangen (Kowarschik, M.) \|\| Inst. of Pattern Recognition, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen (Scherl, H.; Hoppe, S.; Hornegger, J.)
Abstract	The design and implementation of the reconstruction system in medical X-ray imaging is a challenging issue due to its immense computational demands. In order to ensure an efficient clinical workflow it is inevitable to meet high performance requirements. Hence, the usage of hardware acceleration is mandatory. The software architecture of the reconstruction system is required to be modular in a sense that different accelerator hardware platforms are supported and it must be possible to implement different parts of the algorithm using different acceleration architectures and techniques. This paper introduces and discusses the design of a software architecture for an image reconstruction system that meets the aforementioned requirements. We implemented a multi-threaded software framework that combines two software design patterns: the pipeline and the master/worker pattern. This enables us to take advantage of the parallelism in off-the-shelf accelerator hardware such as multi-core systems, the Cell processor, and graphics accelerators in a very flexible and reusable way.
Starting Page	661
Ending Page	668
File Size	193356
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424444861
ISSN	02705257
e-ISBN	9781605580791
DOI	10.1145/1368088.1368181
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-05-10
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Software architecture Three dimensional displays Biomedical imaging Image reconstruction Hardware Acceleration Software design X-ray imaging Software algorithms Computer architecture software design and architecture 3-d reconstruction hardware abstraction layer hardware acceleration medical imaging parallel programming patterns
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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