ATIF SHAHZAD ACCELERATING MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY FOR BREAST IMAGING

WHY  SEARCH  FOR  ALTERNATIVES  IF  MAMOGRAPHY  IS  WORKING?  

Mammogram Microwave Image

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MICROWAVE  TOMOGRAPHY  

Microwave Tomography System for Breast Screening

Microwave Breast Imaging Prototype at NUI Galway

Microwave  Measurements  

Numerical  EsDmate  

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2D/3D  Image  

EXPLOITING  PARALLELISM  IN  THE  MICROWAVE  TOMOGRAPHY  ALGORITHM  

GOING:  FROM  3  HOURS  TO  2  MINS  

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2D  Grid  Size  

Gain  In  Computa6onal  Throughput  

GAIN  GPU  (direct)  

GAIN  GPU  (opDmized)  

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Multi-Core CPU

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Parallelism

3 hrs 2 mins 1.5 hrs

2D Tomography: Reconstruction of numerical breast model

Suspected malignant regions