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GACELLE: GPU-accelerated tools for model parameter estimation and image reconstruction.

Kwok-Shing Chan^1,2, Hansol Lee^1,2,3, Yixin Ma^1,2

¹Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States.

|December 8, 2025

Summary

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GACELLE is a new GPU-accelerated framework that significantly speeds up quantitative MRI (qMRI) analysis. This open-source tool enhances biomarker development and clinical translation by overcoming computational barriers in medical imaging.

Keywords:

Biophysical modelling GPU acceleration Markov chain Monte Carlo Optimisation framework Parameter estimation Quantitative MRI

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Biomarker Development
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

Quantitative MRI (qMRI) provides valuable tissue biomarkers but faces adoption challenges due to high computational costs for parameter estimation.
Lengthy processing times for high-resolution or multi-parameter qMRI hinder clinical research pipelines and innovation.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce GACELLE, an open-source, GPU-accelerated framework designed for high-throughput qMRI analysis.
To address computational demands and improve the accessibility and efficiency of qMRI parameter estimation.

Main Methods:

GACELLE integrates stochastic gradient descent (askadam.m) and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (mcmc.m) optimizers within a unified MATLAB interface.
The framework supports GPU acceleration, spatial regularization for robustness, uncertainty quantification, and efficient batch processing.
It requires users to provide only a forward signal model, with GACELLE managing parallelization and parameter updates.

Main Results:

Benchmarking revealed up to 451-fold acceleration for gradient descent and 14,380-fold for sampling compared to CPU-based methods, without sacrificing accuracy.
GACELLE demonstrated improved parameter precision, enhanced test-retest reproducibility, and reduced noise in quantitative maps across diverse qMRI models and an image reconstruction task.
The framework ensures reproducibility across hardware through fully vectorized computations.

Conclusions:

GACELLE significantly lowers the computational barrier for advanced qMRI analysis, enabling faster biomarker development and large-scale imaging studies.
Its speed, usability, and flexibility offer a generalizable optimization framework for medical image analysis, promoting clinical translation.
The tool facilitates reproducible research and accelerates methodological innovation in quantitative MRI.