Microwave imaging can effectively image the evolution of a hemorrhagic stroke thanks to the dielectric contrast between the blood and the surrounding brain tissues. To keep low both the form factor and the power consumption in a bedside device, we propose implementing a microwave imaging algorithm for stroke monitoring in a programmable system-on-chip, in which a simple ARM-based CPU offloads to an FPGA the heavy part of the computation. Compared to a full-software implementation in the ARM CPU, we obtain a 5x speed increase with hardware acceleration without loss in accuracy and precision.

Low-Cost Low-Power Acceleration of a Microwave Imaging Algorithm for Brain Stroke Monitoring / Sarwar, Imran; Turvani, Giovanna; Casu, Mario; Tobon, Jorge; Vipiana, Francesca; Scapaticci, Rosa; Crocco, Lorenzo. - In: JOURNAL OF LOW POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS. - ISSN 2079-9268. - ELETTRONICO. - 8:4:43(2018), pp. 1-13. [10.3390/jlpea8040043]

Low-Cost Low-Power Acceleration of a Microwave Imaging Algorithm for Brain Stroke Monitoring

Sarwar, Imran;Turvani, Giovanna;Casu, Mario;Tobon, Jorge;Vipiana, Francesca;
2018

Abstract

Microwave imaging can effectively image the evolution of a hemorrhagic stroke thanks to the dielectric contrast between the blood and the surrounding brain tissues. To keep low both the form factor and the power consumption in a bedside device, we propose implementing a microwave imaging algorithm for stroke monitoring in a programmable system-on-chip, in which a simple ARM-based CPU offloads to an FPGA the heavy part of the computation. Compared to a full-software implementation in the ARM CPU, we obtain a 5x speed increase with hardware acceleration without loss in accuracy and precision.
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