High speed quantitative digital microscopyModern digital image processing hardware makes possible quantitative analysis of microscope images at high speed. This paper describes an application to automatic screening for cervical cancer. The system uses twelve MC6809 microprocessors arranged in a pipeline multiprocessor configuration. Each processor executes one part of the algorithm on each cell image as it passes through the pipeline. Each processor communicates with its upstream and downstream neighbors via shared two-port memory. Thus no time is devoted to input-output operations as such. This configuration is expected to be at least ten times faster than previous systems.
Document ID
19850062217
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Castleman, K. R. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Price, K. H. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Eskenazi, R. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Ovadya, M. M. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Navon, M. A. (California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States)