Medical image processing and visualization on heterogenous clusters of symmetric multiprocessors using MPI and POSIX threads

Author

Giess, Christoph ; Mayer, Achim ; Evers, Harald ; Meinzer, Hans-Peter

Author_Institution

Dept. ofMed. & Biol. Inf., Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

fYear

1998

fDate

30 Mar-3 Apr 1998

Firstpage

233

Lastpage

237

Abstract

In this paper we present the design and implementation of a parallel system for interactive segmentation and visualization of three-dimensional medical images which is distributed on a heterogenous cluster of workstations or personal computers. All image processing functions are multithreaded to use the advantages of symmetric multiprocessors. Its platform-independence is achieved using standardized libraries like MPI and POSIX Threads

Keywords

Unix; image segmentation; interactive systems; medical image processing; multiprocessing systems; parallel algorithms; parallel architectures; parallel programming; heterogenous clusters; image processing functions; interactive segmentation; medical image processing; medical images; symmetric multiprocessors; visualization; Biomedical image processing; Biomedical imaging; Computer networks; Costs; Hardware; Image processing; Microcomputers; Visualization; Workstations; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1998. IPPS/SPDP 1998. Proceedings of the First Merged International ... and Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing 1998

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1063-7133

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8404-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1998.669916

Filename

669916