Fast Streaming 3D Level set Segmentation on the GPU for Smooth Multi-phase Segmentation

Level set method based segmentation provides an efficient tool for topological and geometrical shape handling, but it is slow due to high computational burden. In this work, we provide a framework for streaming computations on large volumetric images on the GPU. A streaming computational model allows processing large amounts of data with small memory footprint. Efficient transfer of data to and from the graphics hardware is performed via a memory manager. We show volumetric segmentation using a higher order, multi-phase level set method with speedups of the order of 5 times.