Title :
Large Image Correction and Warping in a Cluster Environment
Author :
Kumar, Vijay S. ; Rutt, Benjamin ; Kurc, Tahsin ; Catalyurek, Umit ; Saltz, Joel ; Chow, Sunny ; Lamont, Stephan ; Martone, Maryann
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Informatics, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH
Abstract :
This paper is concerned with efficient execution of a pipeline of data processing operations on very large images obtained from confocal microscopy instruments. We describe parallel, out-of-core algorithms for each operation in this pipeline. One of the challenging steps in the pipeline is the warping operation using inverse mapping based methods. We propose and investigate a set of algorithms to handle the warping computations on storage clusters. Our experimental results show that the proposed approaches are scalable both in terms of number of processors and the size of images
Keywords :
medical image processing; parallel algorithms; pipeline processing; PC cluster; confocal microscopy instrument; data processing operation; digital microscopy; image correction; image warping; inverse mapping; parallel algorithm; pipeline processing; storage cluster; Biomedical computing; Biomedical imaging; Clustering algorithms; Diseases; Image resolution; Instruments; Microscopy; Parallel machines; Pipelines; Pixel;
Conference_Titel :
SC 2006 Conference, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE
Conference_Location :
Tampa, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2700-0
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7695-2700-0