title: VLSI in biomedical imaging systems.
abstract: This paper explores the nature of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) systems as applied to the area of medical imaging systems. A general discussion of imaging systems and the techniques employed therein will be presented. With this, the merits of VLSI solutions to the medical imaging problem are presented. Consideration is also given to programmable processors, such as off the shelf DSP processors, semi-custom, and full custom VLSI devices. Through the use of VLSI devices, many image processing algorithms can be integrated into a hardware solution. This has the advantage of increased computational capacity over solutions that would normally employ software techniques.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo 14260, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sridhar
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003199:Computer Systems; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D018511:Systems Integration; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014465:Ultrasonics