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Recent Advances in Medical Image Processing and Diagnosis Technology for Capsule Endoscope Systems

캡슐 내시경 시스템의 최신 의료 영상처리 및 진단 기술

  • 김기윤 (명지전문대학 공학.정보학부 전기과) ;
  • 김태권 ((주)인트로메딕 연구소)
  • Received : 2013.06.03
  • Accepted : 2013.08.07
  • Published : 2013.09.30
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Abstract

Recently, Capsule Endoscope(CE) system is receiving great attention as a innovative convergence technology that allows doctors to examine the digestive tract of a human body in the minimum invasive way. Once patients swallow the vitamin pill-sized capsule, doctors can detect disease such as blood-based abnormalities, polyps, ulcers, and Crohn's disease through the image information delivered by wireless or human body communication module in CE. Although CE is really a innovative technology, it still suffers from some drawbacks in terms of correct diagnosis of lesion and analysis required time. Due to the massive images approximately 60~120 thousand frames taken by miniature camera in the CE, doctors spend too much time examining the images and analyzing the lesions. Therefore, to lighten the burden of doctors, software tools for fast diagnosis and medical image processing techniques for correct diagnosis of lesion are essential in CE system. In this paper, we investigate the latest trends of diagnosis tools and image processing techniques based on major makers of CE systems, which are hardly known to the general public.

캡슐 내시경 시스템은 최소 침습적 방법으로 의료진이 환자의 소화기관 검사를 수행할 수 있는 혁신적 기술로 최근 주목 받는 융합 기술이다. 일단 환자가 비타민 알약 크기의 캡슐을 삼키면, 캡슐 내 무선 또는 인체통신 모듈에 의해 전송된 영상정보를 바탕으로 의료진은 캡슐 내시경 진단 시스템을 통해 혈액 이상, 용종, 궤양, 크론병 등 다양한 질환을 진단할 수 있다. 캡슐 내시경은 기존의 케이블 내시경을 대신할 수 있는 혁신 기술이지만 정확한 병증 진단 및 분석 소요 시간 측면에서 단점을 가지고 있다. 즉, 캡슐 내시경은 캡슐내의 소형 카메라를 이용하여 6~12만 프레임의 방대한 양의 정지 영상을 촬영하기 때문에 촬영된 영상을 의료진이 확인하고 정확한 병변을 분석하는데 오랜 시간이 걸린다. 따라서 캡슐 내시경 시스템은 빠른 병변 진단을 위한 도구 및 정확한 병변 진단을 위한 의료 이미지 영상 처리가 필수 요소이다. 본 논문에서는 캡슐 내시경 시스템의 주요 제조사들을 중심으로 거의 알려져 있지 않은 소화기 영상의 빠른 병변 진단 도구에 대한 최근 경향과 정확한 병변 검출을 위한 의료 영상 처리 기술의 최신 동향을 분석하였다.

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