VLSI COMPUTER CHIPS FOR REAL-TIME 3D MORPHOLOGY/IMAGING

用于实时 3D 形态/成像的 VLSI 计算机芯片

• 批准号: 3508009
• 负责人: KENDALL PRESTON
• 金额: $ 23.28万
• 依托单位: KENSAL CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-02-08 至 1994-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3508009
• 关键词: computer graphics /printing; computer program /software; computer simulation; computer system design /evaluation; computer system hardware; imaging /visualization /scanning; kidney imaging /visualization; morphology; personal computers

The use of the proposed 3D VLSI chip has been refocused on that area of medical image analysis and display where its software emulator, the Triakis software package developed by KSC, has proven most useful, i.e., in the 3D analysis and display of 3D tissue structures in experimental histopathology. A specific example is provided relating to the 3D reconstruction of the human renal glomerulus from serial sections of renal tissue. Furthermore, the advantage of an accelerator board based on the proposed 3D VLSI chip is demonstrated by calculations showing that the one- hour computation time required to reconstruct the glomerulus would be reduced to a few seconds by use of a single-3D-VLSI-chip accelerator board; one second, for a two-chip board. At less than $100 per chip and less than $1000 per board, it is shown that an Apple computer with such a board installed would place on the users desktop a workstation at about $5,000 total cost for 3D analysis and display significantly faster than a Cray Y- MP supercomputer. This workstation would be tens of thousands times more cost effective. Calculations indicate that a 1000-fold acceleration over our existing software emulator would be achieved by an Apple-based or PC- based accelerator board using this chip.

提议的3D VLSI芯片的使用已重新集中在该区域 医疗图像分析并显示其软件模拟器Triakis的位置 KSC开发的软件包已被证明是最有用的，即3D 实验中3D组织结构的分析和显示 组织病理学。 提供了与3D有关的特定示例 从肾脏的系列部分重建人肾肾小球 组织。 此外，基于加速器板的优势 提出的3D VLSI芯片是通过计算证明了一个 - 重建肾小体所需的小时计算时间将是 使用单个3D-VLSI-CHIP加速器板降低至几秒钟； 一秒钟，用于两芯片板。 每芯片不到100美元，低于 每板$ 1000，显示一台具有这样板的苹果计算机 安装的将在用户桌面A工作站上放置约5,000美元 3D分析的总成本和显示的速度明显快于Cray Y- MP超级计算机。 这个工作站将是数万倍 成本效益。 计算表明超过1000倍的加速度 我们现有的软件模拟器将通过基于Apple的或PC-来实现 使用此芯片的基于加速器板。