Hardware acceleration of an image processing system for dielectrophoretic loading of single neurons inside micro-wells of microelectrode arrays
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| Authors | Zhai, Xiaojun, Jaber, Fadi, Bensaali, Faycal and Mishra, Arti |
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| Abstract | This paper describes an image processing algorithm and its efficient architecture. The proposed architecture is used to process images of microelectrode arrays (MEAs) and micro-wells captured by a microscope camera in a dielectrophoresis (DEP)-based system which consists as well of digital switches for turning the DEP force 'on' or 'off'. The images are processed in order to determine if a neuron has entered any of the micro-wells in which case the corresponding switch turns 'off' the DEP force. This process must be in real-time to avoid more than one cell to be loaded in a micro-well. The proposed architecture has been successfully implemented and tested on a Zynq SoC. Results achieved have shown that the system can process one image in 9 ms which meets the minimum real-time requirements of this DEP system. |
| Keywords | Microelectrode array; Computer architecture; Image processing; Microprocessors |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the 17th UKSim-AMSS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (UKSim) |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2015.28 |
| Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/620813 |
| hdl:10545/620813 | |
| ISBN | 9781479987139 |
| File | File Access Level Open |
| Publication dates | 25 Mar 2015 |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 11 Nov 2016, 16:14 |
| Contributors | University of Derby |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9533v/hardware-acceleration-of-an-image-processing-system-for-dielectrophoretic-loading-of-single-neurons-inside-micro-wells-of-microelectrode-arrays
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