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This history was compiled by Peter Lemkin with interviews, recollections, and content from Lewis Lipkin, George Carman, Bruce Shapiro, and Morton Shultz and some of the users (Carl Merril, Peter Sonderegger, Eric Lester). It could not have been done without everyone's input, which is reflected throughout the history. See the Acknowledgements for additional credits and information on online reference material donated as part of this history. [The image above is a portion of one of the buffer memory boards used in the RTPP.]
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The National Cancer Institute Real Time Picture Processor
This history was compiled by Peter Lemkin with interviews, recollections, and content from Lewis Lipkin, George Carman, Bruce Shapiro, and Morton Shultz and some of the users (Carl Merril, Peter Sonderegger, Eric Lester). It could not have been done without everyone's input, which is reflected throughout the history. See the Acknowledgements for additional credits and information on online reference material donated as part of this history. [The image above is a portion of one of the buffer memory boards used in the RTPP.]
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1. Introduction
The Real Time Picture Processor (RTPP) was one of the first special-purpose hardware computers developed for grayscale image processing and was designed to aid in biological image analysis. It was developed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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