Acceleration of the Chan-Vese model for 3D segmentation of tumors in CT scans using GPUs

Segmentation and annotation of tumors in CT scans of the brain is a cumbersome time-consuming task for medical experts. Carefully annotated data can be used to build training data sets for machine learning frameworks, with the ultimate goal to fully automate this process. This thesis focuses on acceleration of the annotation process by...

Reinterpreting the Condominium

The goal of the project will is to design a new mass-producible type of condominium for Addis Ababa that could be considered as an improvement on the current condominium type. This means that the designed type must be able to deal with the complicated Addis Ababa environment and especially with the complicated needs and insecure position of low...

Acceleration of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for DNA sequence alignment using an FPGA platform

With the sequencing of DNA becoming cheaper and the resulting stack of data growing bigger, there is a big challenge for both engineer and biologist. Researchers are limited by their computational power. In this thesis, first an overview of sequence alignment algorithms will be given. Then a method to store the values of the similarity score...