TY - GEN
T1 - SAPPHIRE middleware and software development kit for medical video analysis
AU - Stanek, Sean R.
AU - Tavanapong, Wallapak
AU - Wong, Johnny
AU - Oh, Junghwan
AU - Nawarathna, Ruwan D.
AU - Muthukudage, Jayantha
AU - De Groen, Piet C.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper presents SAPPHIRE - a novel middleware and software development kit, developed to reduce implementation efforts in utilizing task parallelism to speed up execution time of analysis of a stream of data, such as medical video. As a case study, we implemented a real-time quality measurement of colonoscopy using SAPPHIRE. We increased the number of threads in our case study from 4 (prior to our middleware) to 28 with ease. As a result, through better load-balancing and taking better advantage of available processor cores, we increased the case study's maximum processing rate from 40 frames per second to 90 frames per second.
AB - This paper presents SAPPHIRE - a novel middleware and software development kit, developed to reduce implementation efforts in utilizing task parallelism to speed up execution time of analysis of a stream of data, such as medical video. As a case study, we implemented a real-time quality measurement of colonoscopy using SAPPHIRE. We increased the number of threads in our case study from 4 (prior to our middleware) to 28 with ease. As a result, through better load-balancing and taking better advantage of available processor cores, we increased the case study's maximum processing rate from 40 frames per second to 90 frames per second.
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U2 - 10.1109/CBMS.2011.5999145
DO - 10.1109/CBMS.2011.5999145
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052981161
SN - 9781457711909
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
BT - Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2011
T2 - 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2011
Y2 - 27 June 2011 through 30 June 2011
ER -