A low power reprogrammable parallel processing VLSI architecture for computation of B-spline based medical image processing system for fast characterization of tiny objects suspended in cellular fluid

Author

Mondal, Sabyasachi ; De, Arijit ; Biswas, P.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Commun. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., West Bengal, India

fYear

2005

fDate

3-7 Jan. 2005

Firstpage

147

Lastpage

152

Abstract

In this paper a novel medical image processing system is discussed. The core of the system is developed using a 16-bit fixed-point parallel architecture B-spline signal processing system. The statistical measure of finite word length effect is analytically developed. A modified algorithm for the reduced hardware reprogrammable interpolator has been designed. Finally some suitable modification in the hardware is made to reduce the power consumption.

Keywords

VLSI; medical image processing; parallel architectures; reconfigurable architectures; roundoff errors; splines (mathematics); B-spline; VLSI architecture; cellular fluid; finite word length effect; fixed-point parallel architecture; hardware reprogrammable interpolator; medical image processing system; power consumption; reprogrammable parallel processing; signal processing system; statistical measurement; tiny object characterization; Biomedical image processing; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Length measurement; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Signal processing algorithms; Spline; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, 2005. 18th International Conference on

ISSN

1063-9667

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2264-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVD.2005.17

Filename

1383268