| 摘要 |
<p>A pipeline processor for medical and biological image analysis. The pipeline processor comprises fine-grained processing pipelines, wherein the computational tasks are broken down into fundamental logic operations. The pipeline processor comprises an input stage, a segmentation pipeline stage, a feature extraction pipeline stage, and an output stage. The input stage receives a digitized image of a biological specimen and includes means for conditioning the image prior to the segmentation stage. The segmentation pipeline receives the conditioned image from the input stage and performs a segmenting operation on the image. The output from the segmentation stage is fed to the feature extraction pipeline stage which performs an extraction operation to associate the segmented results with pre-determined features. The extracted features are stored in the output stage and transmitted to another computer which performs classification operations to classify the features according to biological significance.</p> |
