Slicer-IGT/GPU-IGT

Objective

• To integrate fast GPU-accerelated image processing in NA-MIC toolkit
• To perform 4D MRI or US guided operation assisted by GPU-accelerated Slicer
• Create a Wiki Page for Slicer3:Volume Rendering With Cuda

People involved

• Nobuhiko Hata (BWH)
• Benjamin Grauer (BWH, ETH)
• Nicholas Herlambang (Tokyo University)
• Wong Ki Jeong (U Utah)

Events

• T-con Nov 27, 2007
• Dec 11, 2007 at 930am Boston time
• Salt-Lake city NA-MIC AHM, Jan 11-, 2008
• Slicer-IGT:GPU-IGT:01/09/08 T-con with Ben and Nicholas at 3pm Salt Lake City Time
• Slicer-IGT:GPU-IGT:01/23/08 T-con with Nicholas and Ben at 9am Boston Time

Timeline/Progress

1. Cuda Integration into Slicer/CMake works (on Kubuntu)
2. NH will write paper on IV-CUDA rendering for Journal
3. Hata suggested publication of ITK-CUDA registration in Insight Journal (Feb)
4. Benjamin will have short summery as of March 15 for MICCAI.
5. Benjamin will finish his master by May 15th.

• Pointer to Google Notebook of the Work Progress of Ben: Notebook
• Wiki page for ITK Image Registration with CUDA

Misc notes

1. Link to Slicer3:Volume_Rendering
2. Getting Cuda and CMake to run together
3. Check out the samplecode for a Cuda and CMake project for Volume Rendering

Cuda Examples

1. Cuda Lecture

Resources

A list of interesting resources for building and using CUDA within Slicer and VTK:

1. CUDA Main page: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html
2. CMake-Cuda: http://www.sci.utah.edu/~abe/FindCuda.html
3. CUDA lecture by David Kirk @ Univ. of Illinois: http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece498/al1/Syllabus.html
4. Nice Siggraph Presentation on Volume Rendering media:SIGGRAPH-GPU.pdf

Volume Rendering Techniques

1. Nagoya Software MIP
   1. Source: Volumerenderer.h
2. Osirix approach