A GPU-based framework for simulation of medical ultrasound

Oliver Kutter; Athanasios Karamalis; Wolfgang Wein; Nassir Navab

doi:10.1117/12.813636

13 March 2009 A GPU-based framework for simulation of medical ultrasound

Oliver Kutter, Athanasios Karamalis, Wolfgang Wein, Nassir Navab

Proceedings Volume 7261, Medical Imaging 2009: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling; 726117 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.813636
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2009, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando Area), Florida, United States

Abstract

Simulation of ultrasound (US) images from volumetric medical image data has been shown to be an important tool in medical image analysis. However, there is a trade off between the accuracy of the simulation and its real-time performance. In this paper, we present a framework for acceleration of ultrasound simulation on the graphics processing unit (GPU) of commodity computer hardware. Our framework can accommodate ultrasound modeling with varying degrees of complexity. To demonstrate the flexibility of our proposed method, we have implemented several models of acoustic propagation through 3D volumes. We conducted multiple experiments to evaluate the performance of our method for its application in multi-modal image registration and training. The results demonstrate the high performance of the GPU accelerated simulation outperforming CPU implementations by up to two orders of magnitude and encourage the investigation of even more realistic acoustic models.

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Oliver Kutter, Athanasios Karamalis, Wolfgang Wein, and Nassir Navab "A GPU-based framework for simulation of medical ultrasound", Proc. SPIE 7261, Medical Imaging 2009: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, 726117 (13 March 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.813636

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