Yokota, Takashi; Nagafuchi, Masamichi; Mekada, Yoshito; Yoshinaga, Tsutomu; Ootsu, Kanemitsu; Baba, Takanobu Real-time medical diagnosis on a multiple FPGA-based system. (English) Zbl 1020.68960 Glesner, Manfred (ed.) et al., Field-programmable logic and applications. Reconfigurable computing is going mainstream. 12th international conference, FPL 2002, Montpellier, France, September 2-4, 2002. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2438, 1088-1091 (2002). Summary: The concentration index is a novel characteristic measurement that indicates the degree of concentration of lines to a certain point. Its typical application is medical diagnosis; for example, gastric cancer has a distinctive nature that folds concentrate to the lesion. Its large computational complexity requires much computing time. This paper presents a multiple FPGA-based computing architecture which accelerates the concentration index calculation and enables real-time diagnosis of gastric cancer. Evaluation results reveal that gate- and pin- counts are within those of todays’ FPGA devices, and that the diagnosis process should be accelerated about 100 times faster than ordinal workstations..For the entire collection see [Zbl 1010.68847]. MSC: 68U99 Computing methodologies and applications 94C10 Switching theory, application of Boolean algebra; Boolean functions (MSC2010) 92C55 Biomedical imaging and signal processing PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{T. Yokota} et al., Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2438, 1088--1091 (2002; Zbl 1020.68960) Full Text: Link