TY - JOUR
T1 - High speed quantitative digital microscopy
AU - Castleman, Kenneth R.
AU - Castleman, Kenneth H.
AU - Eskenazi, Raymond
AU - Ovadya, Musa M.
AU - Navon, Mois A.
PY - 1985/2/28
Y1 - 1985/2/28
N2 - Modern 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.
AB - Modern 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0021696255&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.945126
DO - 10.1117/12.945126
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AN - SCOPUS:0021696255
SN - 0277-786X
VL - 516
SP - 8
EP - 11
JO - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
JF - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
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