Frame-based Programming, Stream-Based Processing for Medical Image Processing Applications

Frame-based Programming, Stream-Based Processing for Medical Image Processing Applications

Hoozemans, J.J. (TU Delft Computer Engineering)
de Jong, Rob (Philips Healthcare Nederland)
van der Vlugt, Steven (Philips Healthcare Nederland)
van Straten, J. (TU Delft Computer Engineering)
Elango, Uttam Kumar (Student TU Delft)
Al-Ars, Z. (TU Delft Computer Engineering)

2019

This paper presents and evaluates an approach to deploy image and video processing pipelines that are developed frame-oriented on a hardware platform that is stream-oriented, such as an FPGA. First, this calls for a specialized streaming memory hierarchy and accompanying software framework that transparently moves image segments between stages in the image processing pipeline. Second, we use softcore VLIW processors, that are targetable by a C compiler and have hardware debugging capabilities, to evaluate and debug the software before moving to a High-Level Synthesis flow. The algorithm development phase, including debugging and optimizing on the target platform, is often a very time consuming step in the development of a new product. Our proposed platform allows both software developers and hardware designers to test iterations in a matter of seconds (compilation time) instead of hours (synthesis or circuit simulation time).

FPGA
Image processing
Medical imaging

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0f5c25f0-86ed-40cb-8012-33ae6c835e15

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-018-1422-3

1939-8018

Journal of Signal Processing Systems: the journal of DSPtechnologies, 91 (1), 47-59

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© 2019 J.J. Hoozemans, Rob de Jong, Steven van der Vlugt, J. van Straten, Uttam Kumar Elango, Z. Al-Ars