Patent ID: 8706797

Claim:
A non-transitory image processing system for an x-ray installation, comprising: an image source comprising image sequences from a sequence of x-ray pulses to be enhanced according to an image processing application; a plurality of computing units for processing images in accordance with different imaging processing algorithms allocated to respective computing units; a memory; a data sink; and a control unit physically connected to elements comprising the image source, the plurality of computing units, the memory, and the data sink in a physical network having a star-shaped topology, with the control unit located centrally in the star-shaped topology and the elements branching therefrom, forming a switched network; wherein the control unit operates as a circuit module in the switched network and is adapted to realize different logical topologies for the elements by allocating different imaging processing algorithms to respective computing units according to the image processing application for image enhancement purposes and routing data streams between computing units in a desired processing sequence for imaging processing as a chain of processing steps irrespective of the topology of the physical network, so that a desired logical topology interconnecting the computing units is dynamically configured by the control unit as a function of the image processing application.