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

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 tran...

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Autores principales: Hoozemans, Joost, de Jong, Rob, van der Vlugt, Steven, Van Straten, Jeroen, Elango, Uttam Kumar, Al-Ars, Zaid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30873259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11265-018-1422-3
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author Hoozemans, Joost
de Jong, Rob
van der Vlugt, Steven
Van Straten, Jeroen
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description 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).
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spelling pubmed-63907192019-03-12 Frame-based Programming, Stream-Based Processing for Medical Image Processing Applications Hoozemans, Joost de Jong, Rob van der Vlugt, Steven Van Straten, Jeroen Elango, Uttam Kumar Al-Ars, Zaid J Signal Process Syst Article 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). Springer US 2019-01-04 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6390719/ /pubmed/30873259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11265-018-1422-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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