article · Applied Mathematics for Modern Challenges · 2024
ASTRA kernelkit: GPU-accelerated projectors for computed tomography using cupy
Adriaan Graas, Willem Jan Palenstijn, Ben van Werkhoven, Felix Lucka
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Abstract
New computed tomography (CT) algorithms are commonly developed in high-level programming languages, such as Python or MATLAB, while low-level languages are used to support their computation-intensive operations. In the past decade, graphics processing units (GPUs) have become the de-facto standard for large parallel computations in areas such as computational imaging, image processing, and machine learning. Our fast-and-flexible CT reconstruction software, ASTRA Toolbox, therefore already implemented tomographic projectors, i.e., the core computational operations modeling the X-ray physics, using NVIDIA CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), a low-level platform for computation on GPUs. However, the Python-C++ language barrier prevents high-level Python users from modifying these low-level projectors, and, as a consequence, research into new tomographic algorithms is more complex and time-consuming than necessary. With the ASTRA KernelKit, we lifted tomographic projectors to Python and leveraged CuPy, a numerical software like NumPy and SciPy that exposes CUDA to Python, to obtain a fine-grained control over their efficiency and implementation. In this article, we introduced our software and illustrated its importance for high-performance and data-driven applications using examples from deep learning, real-time X-ray CT, and kernel tuning.
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Graas, A., Palenstijn, W. J., van Werkhoven, B., & Lucka, F. (2024). ASTRA kernelkit: GPU-accelerated projectors for computed tomography using cupy. Applied Mathematics for Modern Challenges, 2(1), 70–92. https://doi.org/10.3934/ammc.2024004
Graas, Adriaan, et al. “ASTRA kernelkit: GPU-accelerated projectors for computed tomography using cupy.” Applied Mathematics for Modern Challenges, vol. 2, no. 1, 2024, pp. 70–92, https://doi.org/10.3934/ammc.2024004.
Graas, Adriaan, Willem Jan Palenstijn, Ben van Werkhoven, and Felix Lucka. 2024. “ASTRA kernelkit: GPU-accelerated projectors for computed tomography using cupy.” Applied Mathematics for Modern Challenges 2 (1): 70–92. https://doi.org/10.3934/ammc.2024004.
Graas, A. et al. (2024) ‘ASTRA kernelkit: GPU-accelerated projectors for computed tomography using cupy’, Applied Mathematics for Modern Challenges, 2(1), pp. 70–92. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3934/ammc.2024004.
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year = {2024},
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