@inproceedings{d9a472c479264cdb9203b53877f09050,
title = "PZnet: Efficient 3D ConvNet Inference on Manycore CPUs",
abstract = "Convolutional nets have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in many biomedical image analysis tasks. Many tasks within biomedical analysis domain involve analyzing volumetric (3D) data acquired by CT, MRI and Microscopy acquisition methods. To deploy convolutional nets in practical working systems, it is important to solve the efficient inference problem. Namely, one should be able to apply an already-trained convolutional network to many large images using limited computational resources. In this paper we present PZnet, a CPU-only engine that can be used to perform inference for a variety of 3D convolutional net architectures. PZNet outperforms MKL-based CPU implementations of PyTorch and Tensorflow by more than 3.5x for the popular U-net architecture. Moreover, for 3D convolutions with low featuremap numbers, cloud CPU inference with PZnet outperforms cloud GPU inference in terms of cost efficiency.",
keywords = "3D convolutions, Image segmentation, Intel Xeon, SIMD",
author = "Sergiy Popovych and Davit Buniatyan and Aleksandar Zlateski and Kai Li and Seung, {Hyunjune Sebastian}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments. This work has been supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) via Department of Interior/ Interior Business Center (DoI/IBC) contract number D16PC0005. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation thereon. Disclaimer: The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of IARPA, DoI/IBC, or the U.S. Government. Additionally, this work was partially funded by TRI. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; Computer Vision Conference, CVC 2019 ; Conference date: 25-04-2019 Through 26-04-2019",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-17795-9_27",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783030177942",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "369--383",
editor = "Supriya Kapoor and Kohei Arai",
booktitle = "Advances in Computer Vision - Proceedings of the 2019 Computer Vision Conference CVC",
address = "Germany",
}