normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa digital breast tomosynthesis (dbt) is a technology that creates three dimensional (3d) images of breast tissue. tomosynthesis mammography detects lesions that are not detectable with other imaging systems. if image reconstruction time is in the order of seconds, we can use tomosynthesis systems to perform tomosynthesis-guided interventional procedur...

We present a series of optimization techniques for stencil computations on NVIDIA Kepler GPUs. Stencil computations with regular grids had been ported to the older generations of NVIDIA GPUs with significant performance improvements thanks to the higher memory bandwidth than conventional CPU-only systems. However, because of the architectural changes introduced with the latest generation of the...

lack of forest management plan and forest road network caused that the traditional tree felling and processing was developed in hyrcanian forest. in this system, trees are felled, limbed and topped motor-manually. felled trees are processed with chainsaws into lumber and/or pulpwood. in order to evaluate this system, lumber processing was studied in two compartments of namkhaneh district in khe...

This report explores using GPUs as a platform for performing high performance medical image data processing, specifically smoothing using a 3D bilateral filter, which performs anisotropic, edge-preserving smoothing. The algorithm consists of a running a specialized 3D convolution kernel over a source volume to produce an output volume. Overall, our objective is to understand what algorithmic de...

In this paper we consider a system consisting of a supplier with a single processing unit, a repair center, and a retailer with Poisson demand. We assume that the retailer applies one-for-one ordering policy with backorders for his inventory control. The retailer’s orders form a queue in the supplier processing unit. We also assume that a certain fraction of the products produced by the supplie...

Stencil computation is of paramount importance in many fields, in image processing, structural biology and biomedicine, among others. There exists a permanent demand of maximizing the performance of stencils on state-of-the-art architectures, such graphics processing units (GPUs). One of the important issues when optimizing these kernels for the GPU is the selection of the best thread-block tha...

The aim of this study is to develop a real-time visual motion detection system by using physiologically meaningful image processing algorithm. Spatiotemporal energy model has been recognized as the most plausible algorithm corresponding to the jobs in motion detection performed by simple and complex cells existing in area V1 of cats or macaque monkeys. Because of the parallelism of the brain, t...

We have recently released the SPLASH-2 suite of parallel applications for the study of centralized and/or distributed shared-address-space multiprocessors. In this regard, this paper has two main goals. One is to quantitatively characterize the SPLASH-2 programs in terms of fundamental properties that are important to understanding these parallel programs, and to describe how these properties v...