IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Computer Medical Image Segmentation Based on Neural Network

  • Xiaopeng Wang,
  • Lei Gu,
  • Zhongyi Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3015541
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8
pp. 158778 – 158786

Abstract

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Image segmentation in medical imaging has long been a problem in radiological image processing. Most of the image segmentation methods in traditional vision algorithms are difficult to achieve high-resolution image segmentation due to the complexity of the algorithm. This article proposes an image segmentation method based on an optimized cellular neural network. This method introduces a non-linear template and data quantization on the basis of a basic network model, which greatly reduces the computational complexity while maintaining the accuracy of image segmentation. We then applied the method to a computer-aided system to classify tumor lesions in mammograms. Finally, we propose an FPGA-based multilevel optimization architecture for energy-efficient cellular neural networks. The optimization scheme includes three levels: system level, module level, and design space. This solution improves computing performance by increasing system parallelism, using data reuse technology to fully utilize loading bandwidth, and using data quantization to reduce computational redundancy. It also introduces pipeline and dual cache structures to optimize memory access, and analyzes the limited resources through the Roofline model. System for best performance. The experimental results show that the FPGA accelerator in this article can improve unit performance by 34% compared with other existing research work. The nonlinear quantified cellular neural network proposed in this article can reduce LUT resource consumption by 74% and energy of 48.2%. Compared with the original network, in the two projection position segmentation results of the mammogram, only 1.5% and 0.6% of the accuracy loss, respectively.

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