Implement a fast volume rendering algorithm for medical images (e.g. CT). This implementation shall take into consideration possible usage of multicore and multiple processors (parallel processing) as well as CPU instructions optimizations (e.g. pipelining). Assume for now that images will be provided as a stack of planes, aligned and equally spaced, something like 512 slices, each 512x512, 8bits/pixel. The implementation shall use the minimal number of pixels necessary to render the desired view (it's not necessary to render the full volume to project its surface).
Contato: Luiz Omori <luiz_omori@yahoo.com>