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

所提出的3D VLSI芯片的使用已经重新集中在 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 组织三维结构的分析与显示 组织病理学 提供了与3D相关的具体示例。 人肾小球连续切片的重建 组织. 此外，基于本发明的加速器板的优点在于： 提出的三维超大规模集成电路芯片证明计算表明，一个- 重建肾小球所需的计算时间为 通过使用单个3D-VLSI芯片加速器板而缩短到几秒; 一秒钟，对于双芯片板。 每个芯片不到100美元， 每板1000美元，这表明，苹果电脑与这样的板， 安装后，将在用户桌面上放置一个工作站，价格约为5，000美元 3D分析和显示的总成本明显快于Cray Y- MP超级计算机。 这台工作站将是 成本效益。 计算表明，1000倍的加速超过 我们现有的软件模拟器将通过基于苹果的或PC实现， 基于加速器板使用此芯片。

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.