Open AccessFPGA Based Bone Fracture Detector
Author(s) -
Hiba-Allah Tariq Abdullah,
Basma Mk. Younis
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/745/1/012052
Subject(s) - sobel operator , computer science , edge detection , field programmable gate array , matlab , software , speedup , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , computer vision , detector , image processing , noise (video) , artificial intelligence , canny edge detector , domain (mathematical analysis) , image (mathematics) , computer hardware , parallel computing , mathematics , telecommunications , programming language , operating system , mathematical analysis
Medical imaging was existed as a new domain of research for the treatment of images that can be easily improved, cut and exposed. The proposed technique aims at detecting the objects’ boundaries of noisy images by means of the information on the images of X-ray. Since medical images are made up of noise, and since the edges of the bone make it difficult to detect, edge detection technology has been a key tool in discovering and improving these edges. The edges are changes in the intensity of the lighting of the image. Among several methods for edge detection, the Sobel method is used in this research paper as it is the most famous operator used in the algorithms of detection edges. The algorithms of image processing have been confined to the implementation of slow software due to the limited speed of the processor. As such, a dedicated processor for edge detection was designed and implemented. The results were compared with those arrived at by MATLAB. They were found out to be the same as those of implementation on FPGA which showed the way that Sobel edge detection can assist in determining the location of the fractures in X-ray images. A speedup of approximately 153.8586 can be obtained by Spartan3E FPGA XC3S500E kit system over the software implementation.