Segmentation of bowel images and its implementation using Virtex FPGA kit

Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) plays a wide role in the diagnosis of bowel diseases. Capsule Endoscopy produces large number of images and it has been analyzed manually by the physicians which is a tough task. Such large data set provide an opportunity for segmenting the bowel images. A segmentation method for extraction of bowel images based on threshold segmentation technique followed by the morphological technique is proposed in this paper. The segmentation of bowel image has been obtained using Aphelion Dev real time software. The resulting image has been implemented in Virtex Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) kit which provides minimum hardware resources and low power consumption and is desirable for real time medical applications and analysis. Total power consumption is 0.182W.