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ArticleJournal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.)2020

Parallel implementations to accelerate the autofocus process in microscopy applications.

Juan C Valdiviezo-N, Francisco J Hernandez-Lopez, Carina Toxqui-Quitl

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Article in Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Juan C Valdiviezo-NCONACYT-Centro de Investigación en Ciencias de Información Geoespacial, Yucatán, México.
Francisco J Hernandez-LopezCONACYT-Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A. C., Unidad Mérida, México.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7181-7910
Carina Toxqui-QuitlUniversidad Politécnica de Tulancingo, Computer Vision Laboratory, Hidalgo, México.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1728-8138

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Abstract

Several autofocus algorithms based on the analysis of image sharpness have been proposed for microscopy applications. Since autofocus functions (AFs) are computed from several images captured at different lens positions, these algorithms are considered computationally intensive. With the aim of presenting the capabilities of dedicated hardware to speed-up the autofocus process, we discuss the implementation of four AFs using, respectively, a multicore central processing unit (CPU) architecture and a graphic processing unit (GPU) card. Throughout different experiments performed on 300 image stacks previously identified with tuberculosis bacilli, the proposed implementations have allowed for the acceleration of the computation time for some AFs up to 23 times with respect to the serial version. These results show that the optimal use of multicore CPU and GPUs can be used effectively for autofocus in real-time microscopy applications.

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autofocus functionsgraphic processing unitHyper-Qmicroscopy imagesmulticore central processing unitnested parallelismparallel computingtuberculosis dataset

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PMID31956664
PMCPMC6968793

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