AN FPGA PLATFORM FOR REAL-TIME SIMULATION OF TISSUE DEFORMATION

Samson Ajagunmo, Aleksandar Jeremic

2008

Abstract

The simulation of soft tissue deformations has many practical uses in the medical field such as diagnosing medical conditions, training medical professionals and surgical planning. While there are many good computational models that are used in these simulations, carrying out the simulations is time consuming especially for large systems. In order to improve the performance of these simulators, field-programmable-gate-arrays (FPGA) based accelerators for carrying out Matrix-by-Vector multiplications (MVM), the core operation required for simulation, have been proposed recently. A better approach, yet, is to implement a full accelerator for carrying out all operations required for simulation on FPGA. In this paper we propose an FPGA accelerator tested for simulating soft-tissue deformation using finite-difference approximation of elastodynamics equations and conjugate-gradient inversion of sparse matrices. The resource and timing requirements show that this approach can achieve speeds capable of carrying out real-time simulation.

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in Harvard Style

Ajagunmo S. and Jeremic A. (2008). AN FPGA PLATFORM FOR REAL-TIME SIMULATION OF TISSUE DEFORMATION . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-18-0, pages 302-306. DOI: 10.5220/0001069903020306


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals08,
author={Samson Ajagunmo and Aleksandar Jeremic},
title={AN FPGA PLATFORM FOR REAL-TIME SIMULATION OF TISSUE DEFORMATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={302-306},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001069903020306},
isbn={978-989-8111-18-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2008)
TI - AN FPGA PLATFORM FOR REAL-TIME SIMULATION OF TISSUE DEFORMATION
SN - 978-989-8111-18-0
AU - Ajagunmo S.
AU - Jeremic A.
PY - 2008
SP - 302
EP - 306
DO - 10.5220/0001069903020306