Implementation of 3-D RDPAD algorithm on follicle images based CUDA

Abstract

The 3-D Robust Detail Preserving Anisotropic Diffusion (3-D RDPAD) is an anisotropic diffusion which has many advantages on 3-D ultrasound image processing, especially in 3-D cattle follicle ultrasound Images. The 3-D RDPAD algorithm has good performance both in noise suppression and edge preserving. However, the computation of 3-D RDPAD algorithm requires a huge amount of time to complete because it directly operates on the 3-D image and it has logical judgment in every iteration. In this paper, we proposed a 3-D Parallel RDPAD algorithm using CUDA to solve this problem. By optimizing the logical judgment in diffusion stop condition, the speed of 3-D RDPAD algorithm has a notable improvement. We performed our algorithm on 3-D cattle follicle ultrasound Images and the result of the experiments showed that it revealed a great speedup over the original 3-D RDPAD.