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

拟议的3DVLSI芯片的使用已重新集中在以下领域 医学图像分析和显示其软件仿真器Triakis KSC开发的软件包已被证明是最有用的，即在3D 实验中三维组织结构的分析与显示 组织病理学。提供了一个与3D有关的具体示例 肾连续切片重建人肾小球 组织。此外，加速板的优势在于 所提出的3D VLSI芯片通过计算表明，其中一个- 重建肾小球所需的小时计算时间为 通过使用单3D-VLSI芯片加速板减少到几秒钟； 一秒钟，用于双芯片电路板。每个芯片低于100美元，且低于 每块板1000美元，据显示，具有这样一块板的苹果计算机 安装后将在用户桌面上放置一个价格约为5,000美元的工作站 3D分析和显示的总成本明显快于Cray Y- MP超级计算机。这台工作站会比现在多几万倍 性价比高。计算表明，超过1000倍的加速 我们现有的软件仿真器将由基于Apple的或PC实现- 基于该芯片的加速板。

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.