Christopher, LaurenLiu, ChaoRizkalla, Maher E.Salama, Paul2011-08-232011-08-232011-08https://hdl.handle.net/1805/2633http://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/2486Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This thesis presents a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based embedded system which is used to achieve high speed segmentation of 3D images. Segmenta- tion is performed using Expectation-Maximization with Maximization of Posterior Marginals (EM/MPM) Bayesian algorithm. In this system, the embedded processor controls a custom circuit which performs the MPM and portions of the EM algorithm. The embedded processor completes the EM algorithm and also controls image data transmission between host computer and on-board memory. The whole system has been implemented on Xilinx Virtex 6 FPGA and achieved over 100 times improvement compared to standard desktop computing hardware.en-USFPGA 3D imageThree-dimensional imaging in medicineField programmable gate arrays