Hardware implementation of Gabor filter for MRI using XSG
by Anis Ladgham; Anis Sakly; Abdellatif Mtibaa
International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE), Vol. 9, No. 4/5, 2016

Abstract: Feature extraction from images is an important stage for a recognition system. In this paper, we propose hardware architecture for the extraction of textural features from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) based on Gabor filter. The strength of Gabor filters in image processing is the similarity of their frequency and orientation representations to those of the human visual system. They are appropriate for texture representation and discrimination. The present architecture is developed using the Xilinx System Generator (XSG) and is implemented on Virtex-V Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The implementation of our method on FPGA gives it the advantages of portability and real time extraction. The performances of the proposed method are demonstrated using a set of medical images.

Online publication date: Wed, 10-Aug-2016

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