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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Struct Biol. 2015 Mar 31;190(2):200–214. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2015.03.009

Table 2.

CPU time and speedup for simulated data experiments. Times are reported as the sum of execution time across all processes.

Average SSDa Time (min) Average Iteration Time (min) # EM Iterations Total CPU Time (hrs)
Simulated 0.05 SNR
StandardEM 4004 4022 10 670
SubspaceEM-1x 2.8 6.1 6 0.8
SubspaceEM-2x 4.3 7.2 6 0.9
SubspaceEM-Overall 3.5 6.7 12 1.7
Simulated 0.02 SNR
StandardEM 3914 3924 7 458
SubspaceEM-1x 2.6 7.1 5 0.8
SubspaceEM-2x 3.7 6.8 6 0.9
SubspaceEM-Overall 3.2 7.0 11 1.6
Speedupb
Simulated 0.05 SNR 1144 600 - 394
Simulated 0.02 SNR 1223 561 - 280
a

SSD = Sum of squared differences. In StandardEM, the differences are calculated between images and projections. In SubspaceEM, the differences are between approximated images and approximated projections.

b

Speedup is calculated as (StandardEM time)/(SubspaceEM-Overall time).