This paper presents a methodology for the design of a reconfigurable computing system applied to a complex problem in molecular Biology: the protein folding problem. This paper employed VMD tool and force field simula...
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This paper presents a methodology for the design of a reconfigurable computing system applied to a complex problem in molecular Biology: the protein folding problem. This paper employed VMD tool and force field simulation theorem based on FPGA for protein folding solution. This technique consists of two components: finished protein folding process and found out active sites for drug docking. The goal of protein folding simulation is to search the global energy minimum location with stability state and the when the protein is finished the folding task, we can find out the active sites for pre-process of ligand protein docking. An efficient hardware-based approach was devised to achieve a significant reduction of the search space of possible foldings. Several simulations were done to evaluate the performance of the system as well as the demand for FPGA's resources.
Computed Tomography (CT) has become a routine tool for three-dimensional (3D) visualization of the internal structure of objects which are opaque to visible light. X-ray CT is widely used in materials science, biomedi...
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(纸本)9780975840078
Computed Tomography (CT) has become a routine tool for three-dimensional (3D) visualization of the internal structure of objects which are opaque to visible light. X-ray CT is widely used in materials science, biomedical applications and elsewhere. Different CT reconstruction algorithms have been developed including the well-known Filtered-Back-Projection (FBP) algorithm in the parallel beam geometry and the Feldkamp-Davis-Kress (FDK) algorithm applicable to cone-beam geometry with a circular trajectory of a small X-ray source and a flat two-dimensional (2D) detector. Recent progress in detector technology resulted in the availability of commercial 2D Charge-Coupled-Devices (CCDs) with linear dimensions of the order of 4k pixels or more. The amount of memory required for storing a 3D volume of floating-point data of such linear size is 256GB or more, which significantly exceeds the typical amount of RAM found not only in high-end desktop computers but also in small computer clusters. The most computationally intensive step in the FBP and FDK CT reconstruction algorithms is the so-called back-projection operation that takes up to 99% of the total reconstruction time in a typical CPU-based implementation. The 3D computer graphics capabilities of general-purpose graphics processing units (GP-GPUs) utilized e. g. via OpenGL or DirectX have been used for the back-projection operation for the last ten to fifteen years. With the recent increase in the size of reconstructed volumes as mentioned above, standard approaches which usually store the whole reconstructed volume in GPU memory have become problematic. Different algorithmic approaches are required for the effective use of GPUs for CT reconstruction of large data volumes. We have developed new CPU-based and GPU-based implementations of the FBP and FDK algorithms for Xray CT. These implementations take into account the following principles: Use as little RAM and/or GPU memory for the reconstruction of each axial slice
The primary aim of computer-integrated surgical systems is to provide physicians with superior surgical tools for better patient outcome. Robotic technology is capable of both minimally invasive surgery and microsurge...
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The primary aim of computer-integrated surgical systems is to provide physicians with superior surgical tools for better patient outcome. Robotic technology is capable of both minimally invasive surgery and microsurgery, offering remarkable advantages for the surgeon and the patient. Current systems allow for sub-millimeter intraoperative spatial positioning, however certain limitations still remain. Measurement noise and unintended changes in the operating room environment can result in major errors. Positioning errors are a significant danger to patients in procedures involving robots and other automated devices. We have developed a new robotic system at the Johns Hopkins University to support cranial drilling in neurosurgery procedures. The robot provides advanced visualization and safety features. The generic algorithm described in this paper allows for automated compensation of patient motion through optical tracking and Kalman filtering. When applied to the neurosurgery setup, preliminary results show that it is possible to identify patient motion within 700 ms, and apply the appropriate compensation with an average of 1.24 mm positioning error after 2 s of setup time.
The abstract is to be in fully-justified italicized text, at the top of the left-hand column as it is here,below the author *** the word"Abstract"as the title,in 12-point Times,boldface type,centered relativ...
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The abstract is to be in fully-justified italicized text, at the top of the left-hand column as it is here,below the author *** the word"Abstract"as the title,in 12-point Times,boldface type,centered relative to the column,initially *** abstract is to be in 10-point,single-spaced type,and up to 150 words in *** two blank lines after the abstract,then begin the main text. ViSC(visualization in scientific computing) is an important research topic in computer *** application almost covers all areas of natural sciences and engineering technology and is particularly prominent in the field of biomedical *** reconstruction is one of the most critical technologies in biomedical *** process is described as following:extracting information from serial two-dimensional images of tissues and organs generated from medical imaging equipments (computed tomography CT,magnetic resonance imaging MRI,etc.),building a three dimensional geometric model using computer three-dimensional image technology,rendering and displaying the"real"image on the computer *** representation of three-dimensional structures of biological tissues and organs is immensely valuable to study the structure, functions and the relationship between *** reconstruction technology includes two methods:volume rendering and surface reconstruction, the later was adopted in this *** lines and marching cube are common algorithms in surface *** paper aimed at reconstructing a locust chest based on serial section *** reconstructed 3D image could be saved on the hard drive as a STL file.
Data mining and knowledge discovery have been applied to datasets in various industries including biomedical data. Modelling, data mining and visualization in biomedical data address the problem of extracting knowledg...
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An atom-centered protocol based method for surface sampling in grid space is proposed. Van der Waals, solvent-accessible and solvent-excluded surface can be generated in a unified framework. A spherical hash function ...
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(纸本)9780769531182
An atom-centered protocol based method for surface sampling in grid space is proposed. Van der Waals, solvent-accessible and solvent-excluded surface can be generated in a unified framework. A spherical hash function is used to mark whether the points are inside a sphere, and the hash tables are used to record which spheres the surface points locate on. The proposed method can be modified to apply in the parallel computation directly, which is useful for molecular dynamics simulation, docking and surface comparison and so on. Our tests indicate that the proposed method is efficient and the generated surfaces are suitable for quantitative analysis and visualization.
The two major volume visualization methods used in biomedical applications are Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) and Volume Rendering (VR), both of which involve the process of creating sets of 2D projections from 3D...
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(纸本)9780819471024
The two major volume visualization methods used in biomedical applications are Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) and Volume Rendering (VR), both of which involve the process of creating sets of 2D projections from 3D images. We have developed a new method for very fast, high-quality volume visualization of 3D biomedical images, based on the fact that the inverse of this process (transforming 2D projections into a 3D image) is essentially equivalent to tomographic image reconstruction. This new method uses the 2D projections acquired by the scanner, thereby obviating the need for the two computationally expensive steps currently required in the complete process of biomedicalvisualization, that is, (i) reconstructing the 3D image from 2D projection data, and (ii) computing the set of 213 projections from the reconstructed 3D image As well as improvements in computation speed, this method also results in improvements in visualization quality, and in the case of x-ray CT we can exploit this quality improvement to reduce radiation dosage. In this paper, demonstrate the benefits of developing biomedicalvisualization techniques by directly processing the sensor data acquired by body scanners, rather than by processing the image data reconstructed from the sensor data. We show results of using this approach for volume visualization for tomographic modalities, like x-ray CT, and as well as for MRI.
Detection of specific image components, their visualization and classification belong to main topics of biomedical image processing. The paper is devoted to problems related to the use of discrete wavelet transform (D...
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(纸本)9780889867598
Detection of specific image components, their visualization and classification belong to main topics of biomedical image processing. The paper is devoted to problems related to the use of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and the dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT) for image denoising and to selected methods of its enhancement. The study presents the analysis of results achieved for different wavelet functions and the following application of gradient methods for specific image components detection. The information content of final images is followed both from the medical point of view using the previous experience and numerically through the analysis of image spectral components. The proposed methods indicate the efficiency of the dual-tree complex wavelet transform use in this area.
Based on the anatomical consistency in two series MRI images of a patient in different postures, an algorithm computing a spatially intersectant line of two images from each series is proposed. Furthermore, the anatom...
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This paper presents the design and the implementation of the new high performance biomedical data center of the Décrypthon computing grid which provides a strong potential for calculation and storage to high trho...
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This paper presents the design and the implementation of the new high performance biomedical data center of the Décrypthon computing grid which provides a strong potential for calculation and storage to high trhoughput biological applications and *** order to efficiently share the biological data required by the application, the Décrypthon data center is integrated in the computing grid to provide local databases of nucleotide, genomic and proteomic *** addition, the access to methods for heterogeneous and distributeddata, and treatment of joint queries, analysis and visualization are provided.A new system of data integration, called BIRD (for Biological Integration and Retrieval of Data), considered as the core of the Décrypthon data center, was developed to locally integrate very large genomic, proteomic and transcriptomic *** also provides an engine and a high level query language allowing the biologist to extract pertinent information.
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