Real-time medical diagnosis on a multiple FPGA-based system

Abstract

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. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.