speed of iradon transform
Matthew Newville
matt.newville at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 07:59:06 EDT 2015
Hi,
Some time ago, I raised Issue #929 on github about the interpolation step
in skimage.transforms.radon_transform.iradon being too slow.
After some on-and-off investigation, I found two opportunities to speed
this up. First, numpy's linear interpolation routine interp() was very
slow for repeated interpolations of well-ordered input -- this is now fixed
in the github master repo for numy, and gives roughly a 3x to 4x speed-up.
Second, the trigonometric calculations can be cached when doing repeated
calls to iradon() for the same geometry (image size, number of angles).
This can give another factor of 1.5 to 2.0x speed-up. This is PR #1474.
Some preliminary timing results:
Python2.7.8 (linux), with an image shape of (500, 500), and sinogram shape
of (500, 361). I used iradon() options of dict(filter='shepp-logan',
interpolation='linear') and tried both circle=True and False.
The "workspace?" column here indicates whether the iradon_workspace()
function introduced in PR1474 was used.
with circle=True:
numpy skimage workspace? Best, Worst of 5 (s)
|---------+-----------+------------+---------------------|
1.9.2 master N/A 6.085 6.132
master master N/A 1.784, 1.813
master PR1474 No 1.788, 1.809
master PR1474 Yes 1.103, 1.160
|---------+-----------+------------+---------------------|
with circle=False:
numpy skimage workspace? Best, Worst of 5 (s)
|---------+-----------+------------+---------------------|
1.9.2 master N/A 2.736, 2.767
master master N/A 0.820, 0.831
master PR1474 No 0.802, 0.814
master PR1474 Yes 0.535, 0.540
|---------+-----------+------------+---------------------|
That is, the cumulative improvement is about 5x. Also note that not
using the workspace reverts to the older behavior, and that using he
workspace for 1 run of iradon() has basically no improvement over not using
the workspace.
Oddly, iradon() is now faster than radon() on this machine/image size
(radon() takes about 3.5 sec). I don't understand why that would be.
Anybody understand why radon() is so slow?
Cheers,
--Matt Newville
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