GPGPU-based data parallel region growing algorithm for cell nuclei detection

Nowadays microscopic analysis of tissue samples is done more and more by using digital imagery and special immunodiagnostic software. These are typically specific applications developed for one distinct field, but some subroutines are commonly repeated, for example several applications contain steps that can detect cell nuclei in a sample image. The aim of our research is developing a new data parallel algorithm that can be implemented even in a GPGPU environment and that is capable of counting hematoxylin eosin (HE) stained cell nuclei and of identifying their exact locations and sizes (using a variation of the region growing method). Our presentation contains the detailed description of the algorithm, the peculiarity of the CUDA implementation, and the evaluation of the created application (regarding its accuracy and the decrease in the execution time).

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Parallel Biomedical Image Processing with GPGPUs in Cancer Research

The main aim of this work is to show, how GPGPUs can facilitate certain type of image processing methods. The software used in this paper is used to detect special tissue part, the nuclei on (HE - hematoxilin eosin) stained colon tissue sample images. Since pathologists are working with large number of high resolution images - thus require significant storage space -, one feasible way to achieve reasonable processing time is the usage of GPGPUs. The CUDA software development kit was used to develop processing algorithms to NVIDIA type GPUs. Our work focuses on how to achieve better performance with coalesced global memory access when working with three-channel RGB tissue images, and how to use the on-die shared memory efficiently.

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