A REAL TIME PICTURE PROCESSOR FOR USE IN BIOLOGIC CELL IDENTIFICATION I. SYSTEM DESIGN
1 Image Processing Unit, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 200l4
We show that the class of special purpose picture processors has common characteristics which set it apart from conventional general purpose computers. We argue for the implementation of a fast serial processor of gray scale images having easy access to a tessellated gray scale neighborhood, where the tessellation of a neighborhood is the movement of that neighborhood through the image array in some deterministic way. Such a machine would be very useful in an interactive system used for problems such as the design of effective procedures for automated cell classification. Submitted on February 4, 1974
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