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Purpose: Cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures raises a clinical concern, especially for pediatric patients who…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , Ruijiang Li , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is considered the gold standard method for radiotherapy dose calculation. However, achieving high precision requires a large number of simulation histories, which is time consuming. The use of computer graphics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Ti Bai , Biling Wang , Dan Nguyen , Steve Jiang

Computing maximum/minimum distances between 3D meshes is crucial for various applications, i.e., robotics, CAD, VR/AR, etc. In this work, we introduce a highly parallel algorithm (gDist) optimized for Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Peng Fang , Wei Wang , Ruofeng Tong , Hailong Li , Min Tang

We demonstrate a GPU-accelerated nested sampling framework for efficient high-dimensional Bayesian inference in cosmology. Using JAX-based neural emulators and likelihoods for cosmic microwave background and cosmic shear analyses, our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Toby Lovick , David Yallup , Davide Piras , Alessio Spurio Mancini , Will Handley

In this work, we have explored the advantages and drawbacks of using GPUs instead of CPUs in the calculation of a standard 2-point correlation function algorithm, which is useful for the analysis of Large Scale Structure of galaxies. Taking…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-01 Rafael Ponce , Miguel Cardenas-Montes , Juan Jose Rodriguez-Vazquez , Eusebio Sanchez , Ignacio Sevilla

Purpose: Very fast Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of proton transport have been implemented recently on GPUs. However, these usually use simplified models for non-elastic (NE) proton-nucleus interactions. Our primary goal is to build a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Wan Chan Tseung , J. Ma , C. Beltran

Recently, X-ray imaging dose from computed tomography (CT) or cone beam CT (CBCT) scans has become a serious concern. Patient-specific imaging dose calculation has been proposed for the purpose of dose management. While Monte Carlo (MC)…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xun Jia , Hao Yan , Xuejun Gu , Steve B. Jiang

Cosmological measurements require the calculation of nontrivial quantities over large datasets. The next generation of survey telescopes (such as DES, PanSTARRS, and LSST) will yield measurements of billions of galaxies. The scale of these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-10 Deborah Bard , Matthew Bellis , Mark T. Allen , Hasmik Yepremyan , Jan M. Kratochvil

We accelerated an ab-initio molecular QMC calculation by using GPGPU. Only the bottle-neck part of the calculation is replaced by CUDA subroutine and performed on GPU. The performance on a (single core CPU + GPU) is compared with that on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 Yutaka Uejima , Tomoharu Terashima , Ryo Maezono

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are high performance co-processors originally intended to improve the use and quality of computer graphics applications. Once, researchers and practitioners noticed the potential of using GPU for general…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-07-12 K. Parand , Saeed Zafarvahedian , Sayyed A. Hossayni

We implement a quantum optimal control algorithm based on automatic differentiation and harness the acceleration afforded by graphics processing units (GPUs). Automatic differentiation allows us to specify advanced optimization criteria and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Nelson Leung , Mohamed Abdelhafez , Jens Koch , David I. Schuster

We present the GPU calculation with the common unified device architecture (CUDA) for the Wolff single-cluster algorithm of the Ising model. Proposing an algorithm for a quasi-block synchronization, we realize the Wolff single-cluster Monte…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 Yukihiro Komura , Yutaka Okabe

I introduce a new code for fast calculation of the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, that leverages the computing power of graphics processing units (GPUs). After establishing a background to the newly emergent field of GPU computing, I discuss the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. H. D. Townsend

We describe the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for speeding up the code NBODY6 which is widely used for direct $N$-body simulations. Over the years, the $N^2$ nature of the direct force calculation has proved a barrier for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Keigo Nitadori , Sverre J. Aarseth

Online adaptive radiation therapy (ART) has great promise to significantly reduce normal tissue toxicity and/or improve tumor control through real-time treatment adaptations based on the current patient anatomy. However, the major technical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Chunhua Men , Xun Jia , Steve. B. Jiang

Heterogeneity in the cell population of cancer tissues poses many challenges in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Studying the heterogeneity in cell populations from gene expression measurement data in the context of cancer research is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Anik Chaudhuri , Anwoy Mohanty , Manoranjan Satpathy

When calculating the infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies in radiation-transfer models, the calculation of dust grain temperatures is generally the most time-consuming part of the calculation. Because of its highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrik Jonsson , Joel Primack

Gaussian Processes have become an indispensable part of the spatial statistician's toolbox but are unsuitable for analyzing large dataset because of the significant time and memory needed to fit the associated model exactly. Vecchia…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-18 Zachary James , Joseph Guinness

Discrete optimization is a central problem in artificial intelligence. The optimization of the aggregated cost of a network of cost functions arises in a variety of problems including (W)CSP, DCOP, as well as optimization in stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Ferdinando Fioretto , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh , Rina Dechter

Computed tomography (CT) scans are a major source of medical radiation exposure worldwide. In countries like China, the frequency of CT scans has grown rapidly, particularly in routine physical examinations where chest CT scans are…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Zirui Ye , Bei Yao , Haoran Zheng , Li Tao , Ripeng Wang , Yankui Chang , Zhi Chen , Yingming Zhao , Wei Wei , Xie George Xu