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

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 9am.
• Salt-Lake city NA-MIC AHM, Jan 11-, 2008

Progress

1. Cuda Integration into Slicer/CMake works (on Kubuntu)

Misc notes

Pointer to Google Notebook of the Work Progress of Ben: Notebook

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

Volume Rendering Techniques

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