title: High-Performance 3D Compressive Sensing MRI Reconstruction Using Many-Core Architectures.
abstract: Compressive sensing (CS) describes how sparse signals can be accurately reconstructed from many fewer samples than required by the Nyquist criterion. Since MRI scan duration is proportional to the number of acquired samples, CS has been gaining significant attention in MRI. However, the computationally intensive nature of CS reconstructions has precluded their use in routine clinical practice. In this work, we investigate how different throughput-oriented architectures can benefit one CS algorithm and what levels of acceleration are feasible on different modern platforms. We demonstrate that a CUDA-based code running on an NVIDIA Tesla C2050 GPU can reconstruct a 256 × 160 × 80 volume from an 8-channel acquisition in 19 seconds, which is in itself a significant improvement over the state of the art. We then show that Intel's Knights Ferry can perform the same 3D MRI reconstruction in only 12 seconds, bringing CS methods even closer to clinical viability.
authors.affiliation: Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Corporation, 2200 Mission College Boulevard Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA.
authors.forename: Daehyun
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trzasko
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smelyanskiy
authors.forename: Clifton
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Haider
authors.forename: Pradeep
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dubey
authors.forename: Armando
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Manduca