• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.255-260
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• 2005

위암은 국내 암발생 및 사망률의 상당 부분을 차지하고 있으며, 이러한 조기 위암의 발견은 치료 및 예후에 있어서 아주 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 조기 위암의 진단을 위해 위 내시경 영상에서 색상 변화를 이용해 이상 부위를 검출하여 검사자에게 조직적인 정보를 제공하는 시스템을 제안한다. 어느 정도의 진행이 이루어진 염증과 암은 쉽게 판단할 수 있지만, 조기의 염증이나 암의 경우에는 주의 깊게 보지 않는 경우에는 병변의 진단이 쉽지 않다. 본 논문에서는 위 내시경 영상을 IHB 채널로 변환시키고 조명에 의해 발생하는 잡음을 제거하며 자동으로 암 의심 영역을 검출하여 검사자에게 제공하거나 검사자에 의해 설정된 영역에 대한 조직적인 표면 정보를 제공한다. 본 논문의 연구는 추출된 이상 부위가 암을 확진할 수 없지만, 인간이 쉽게 인지하기 어려운 이상부위(암 의심 영역)를 추출하여 검사자에게 주의를 요구함으로써 일 처리를 줄이고 부과적인 정보를 제공한다. 그리고 검사추가 지정한 영역에 대해서도 조직적인 정보를 제공한다. 제안된 위 내시경 영상 분석 방법의 효율성을 확인하기 위해서 실제 내시경 영상들을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 위 내시경 영상 분석에 효율적임을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.322-326
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 내시경 영상에 대해 위암 영역을 자동으로 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 내시경 영상을 획득하는 과정에서 발생하는 조명에 의한 잡음과 굴곡에 의해 발생하는 그림자에 의한 잡음 부분을 해결하기 위해서 HSI의 채도와 밝기 값을 이용하여 잡음 영역을 제거한다. 그리고 헤모글로빈 색소 정보를 나타내는 IHb값을 이용하여 전자 내시경 영상에서 유사한 헤모글로빈 색소 정보를 가지는 영역으로 분할한다. 분할된 영역들 중에서 RGB의 각 채널과 헤모글로빈 색소가 높게 나타나면 후보 영역으로 설정한다. 설정된 후보 영역 중에서 위암 영역의 형태학적인 특징 정보를 이용하여 위암 영역을 추출한다. 실제 전문의가 제공한 20개의 내시경 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 위암 추출 방법으로 17개가 정확히 추출되었고 3개의 내시경 영상에서는 위암 영역이 정확히 추출되지 않았다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.9
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• pp.802-812
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• 2013

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.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.17-21
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• 2014

In this paper, we proceeded a study about the wireless endoscopic technology development combined with UWB communication module for endoscope. Firstly, we proposed needs of UWB wireless endoscope technology development related to domestic endoscope industry and UWB communication technology. Also, we develop a wireless endoscope combined with UWB communication module. In this paper, the proposed UWB wireless endoscope technology can acquire a endoscope image using UWB communication method. It can transfer a image at high data rate using DB and Smart Device linkage technology, an effective and trusted diagnosis is possible. The proposed UWB wireless communication module combined with UWB communication module is expected to be widely utilized.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.265-269
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose an automatic extraction method of gastric cancer region from electronic endoscopic images. We use the brightness and saturation of HSI in removing noises by illumination and shadows by the crookedness occurring in the endoscopic process. We partition the image into several areas with similar pigments of hemoglobin using IHb. The candidate areas for gastric cancer are defined as the areas that have high hemoglobin pigments and high value in every channel of RGB. Then the morphological characteristics of gastric cancer are used to decide the target region. In experiment, our method is sufficiently accurate in that it correctly identifies most cases (18 out of 20 cases) from real electronic endoscopic images, obtained by expert endoscopists.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.535-537
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• 2000

인체 장기의 내부 벽면을 관찰하기 위하여 사용된 내시경 검사 기법은 내시경을 삽입하고, 질병 부위를 찾는 과정에서 환자에게 고통을 유발시키고, 정확한 진단을 내리기 위해서는 검사자의 오랜 경험과 숙달을 필요로 한다. 그러므로 각종 의료 영상을 기반으로 한 가상 내시경 시스템에 대한 연구와 개발이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 초음파 영상을 기반으로 하여 병변 부위의 3차원 영상을 생성하고, 탐색하는 시스템을 제안한다. 우선 획득된 초음파 영상으로부터 장기에 대한 윤곽선 정보를 얻기 위하여, 초음파 영상에 대한 전처리 작업과 분할 작업을 수행하였고, 추출된 윤곽선 정보를 기반으로 3차원 표면 모델을 생성하였다. 3차원 표면 모델은 VRML 2.0 형식의 3차원 객체로 자동 변환되어 일반 VRML Plug-in viewer 및 자바 제어 모듈을 이용하여 3차원 장기 모델에 대한 탐색을 가능하도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.473-478
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• 2005

The gastric cancer takes the great part of the cancer occurrence and the mortality from cancer in Korea, and the early detection of gastric cancer is very important in the treatment and convalescence. This paper. for the early detection of gastric cancer, Proposes the analysis system of endoscopic image of the stomach that detects the abnormal region by using the change of color in the image and provides the surface tissue information to the detector. While the advanced inflammation and the cancer may be easily detected, the early inflammation and the cancer have a difficulty in detection and require the more attention lot detection. This paper, at first, converts the endoscopic image to the Image of IHb(Index of Hemoglobin) model and removes noises incurred by illumination, and next, automatically detects the regions suspected as cancer and provides the related information to the detector, or provides the surface tissue information for the regions appointed by the detector. This paper does not intend to provide the final diagnosis of the detected abnormal regions as gastric cancer, but provides the supplementary mean that reduces the load and mistaken diagnosis of the detector by automatically detecting the abnormal regions being not easily detected by human eyes and providing the additional information for the diagnosis. The experiments using practical endoscopic images for performance evaluation showed that the proposed system is effective in the analysis of endoscopic image of the stomach.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.2-5
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• 2022

Human organs in the body have a complex structure, and in particular, the small intestine is about 7m long, so endoscopy is not easy and the risk of endoscopy is high. Currently, the test is performed with a capsule endoscope, and the test time is very long. The doctor connects the removed storage device to the computer to store the patient's capsule endoscope image and reads it using a program, but the capsule endoscope test results in a long image length, which takes a lot of time to read. In addition, in the case of the small intestine, there are many curves due to villi, so the occlusion area or light and shade of the image are clearly visible during the examination, and there may be cases where lesions and abnormal signs are missed during the examination. In this paper, we provide a method of assisting small intestine capsule endoscopic lesion examination using artificial neural networks to shorten the doctor's image reading time and improve diagnostic reliability.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.263-268
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• 2002

The image quality of imageguide depends on the structure, material, length of microfibers and the phenomena such as cross-talk and leaky ray between adjacent fibers. These Parameters should be considered as important factors in the image transmission qualify of fibers. However it is considered to be very difficult to assess all the parameters in a consistent way Therefore. two image characteristics, image resolution and image brightness are measured and analyzed to determine the image quality of imageguide. But the exact methods to measure two image characteristics of imageguide are not reported. In this study, the image brightness of imageguide for ultrathin endoscope is determined by measuring of the numerical aperture. the packing fraction and the attenuated power ratio of imageguide. Especially it is possible to obtain more exact results from measuring the numerical aperture of whole image guide than those from theoretical calculation of the single microfiber in an image guide. The image brightness of the image guide which has $3.1\mu m$ microfibers is about 37% less than that with $4.1\mu m$ microfibers.

• Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.26-31
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• 2002

This paper represents the design of 3D endoscopic video system in order to improve visualization and enhance the ability of the surgeon to perform delicate endoscopic surgery. Minimally invasive techniques have set new standards in all surgical may experience less post-operative discomfort, shorter hospitalization, and quicker recuperation. Finally, the aim of the present study was to determine the influence of 2D and 3D video imaging on defined tasks on a laparoscopic trainer.