The year 2011 marked an important transition for FPGA high-level synthesis (HLS), as it
went from prototyping to deployment. A decade later, in this article, we assess the progress …

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are spatial architectures with a heterogeneous
reconfigurable fabric. They are state-of-the-art for prototyping, telecommunications …

Medical imaging is considered one of the most important advances in the history of medicine
and has become an essential part of the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Earlier …

Stencil-based algorithms are a relevant class of computational kernels in high-performance
systems, as they appear in a plethora of fields, from image processing to seismic …

Healthcare is a pivotal research field, and medical imaging is crucial in many applications.
Therefore finding new architectural and algorithmic solutions would benefit highly repetitive …

Image registration is a well-defined computation paradigm widely applied to align one or
more images to a target image. This paradigm, which builds upon three main components, is …

Pairwise sequence alignment represents a fundamental step in genome and molecular
analysis applications, accounting for most of their runtime. Given the quadratic time …

3D image registration is one of the most complex algorithms employed in medical imaging
applications. Software solution struggles to reach high accuracy in a reasonable time …

Traditional hardware development exploits description languages such as VHDL and
(System) Verilog to produce highly parametrizable RTL designs. Different parameter values …

Current medical practice increasingly relies on multiple imaging techniques to deliver faster
and more accurate diagnosis as well as live medical imaging integration to guide critical …