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Cache-Aware GPU Optimization for Out-of-Core Cone Beam CT Reconstruction of High-Resolution Volumes

Yuechao LU, Fumihiko INO, Kenichi HAGIHARA

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This paper proposes a cache-aware optimization method to accelerate out-of-core cone beam computed tomography reconstruction on a graphics processing unit (GPU) device. Our proposed method extends a previous method by increasing the cache hit rate so as to speed up the reconstruction of high-resolution volumes that exceed the capacity of device memory. More specifically, our approach accelerates the well-known Feldkamp-Davis-Kress algorithm by utilizing the following three strategies: (1) a loop organization strategy that identifies the best tradeoff point between the cache hit rate and the number of off-chip memory accesses; (2) a data structure that exploits high locality within a layered texture; and (3) a fully pipelined strategy for hiding file input/output (I/O) time with GPU execution and data transfer times. We implement our proposed method on NVIDIA's latest Maxwell architecture and provide tuning guidelines for adjusting the execution parameters, which include the granularity and shape of thread blocks as well as the granularity of I/O data to be streamed through the pipeline, which maximizes reconstruction performance. Our experimental results show that it took less than three minutes to reconstruct a 20483-voxel volume from 1200 20482-pixel projection images on a single GPU; this translates to a speedup of approximately 1.47 as compared to the previous method.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E99-D No.12 pp.3060-3071
Publication Date
2016/12/01
Publicized
2016/09/05
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7174
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Computer System

Authors

Yuechao LU
  Osaka University
Fumihiko INO
  Osaka University
Kenichi HAGIHARA
  Osaka University

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