SAPPHIRE middleware and software development kit for medical video analysis

Sean R. Stanek, Wallapak Tavanapong, Johnny Wong, Junghwan Oh, Ruwan D. Nawarathna, Jayantha Muthukudage, Piet C. De Groen

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2011
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2011 - Bristol, United Kingdom
Duration: Jun 27 2011Jun 30 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
ISSN (Print)1063-7125

Other

Other24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBristol
Period6/27/116/30/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
  • Computer Science Applications

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