• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.227-231
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• 2006

카메라를 통하여 실시간으로 입력되는 객체의 움직임은 잡음이나 조명의 변화에 따라 정확하게 추출하고 추적하는 것이 어렵다. 따라서 실시간으로 입력되는 영상에서 객체를 추출하고 움직임을 추적하기 위해서는 고속탐색 알고리즘이 필요하다. 본 논문은 실시간영상에서 객체의 움직임을 추출하고 추적을 위하여 배경영상의 변화에 강인한 배경영상 갱신 방법과 가변적인 탐색영역을 이용한 객체추적의 빠른 알고리즘을 제안한다. 배경영상 갱신 방법은 임계값이 실험적 기준치 보다 작은 경우에는 배경영상을 갱신하고, 큰 경우에는 객체가 유입된 시점으로 판단하여 픽셀검사를 통해 객체의 윤곽점을 추출한다. 추출된 윤곽점은 객체 영역블록의 생성과 일정한 거리를 유지하는 탐색블록을 생성하여 정확하고 빠른 객체의 움직임을 추적한다. 실험결과, 제안한 방법은 95% 이상의 높은 정확도를 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.81 no.1
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• pp.176-189
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• 2020

Purpose To evaluate the clinical efficacy of real-time sonoelastography (RTS) for the follow-up of congenital muscular torticollis, based on measurements of muscle elasticity. Materials and Methods Thirty-four infants (23 male, 11 female) with congenital sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle torticollis underwent ultrasonography and elastography between November 2012 and December 2014. We evaluated the thickness, morphology (mass-like, fusiform, or overall thickened shape), and echogenicity of the SCM muscle on grayscale images and color patterns (homogeneous blue, mixed green < 50% and ≥ 50%, and green to red) on elastography. Strain ratios were measured using Q-lab software. A clinician classified the degree of neck rotation and side flexion deficits using a 5-point grade system based on angles of neck rotation and side flexion. Correlations between the ultrasonography and clinical findings were evaluated by statistical analysis. Results Twenty-two infants had right and 12 had left SCM torticollis, respectively. Linear regression analysis showed that involved/contralateral SCM thickness differences, morphology, elasticity color scores, and strain ratios of the affected SCM muscles were significantly correlated with neck rotation and side flexion deficit scores (p < 0.05). The elasticity color score of the affected SCM muscle was the most significant factor. Conclusion RTS might provide a reliable means for evaluating and monitoring congenital muscular torticollis.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.3 s.55
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• pp.26-32
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• 2005

RFID 기술은 사물에 전자 태그를 부착하여 무선으로 사물의 ID를 인식하여 정보를 수집하고 주변상황 정 보를 감지하고 수집 된 정보를 저 장, 가공, 추적함으로써 사물에 대한 측위, 원격처리, 관리 및 사물간 정보 교환 등의 서비스를 제공하는 기술이다. 특히,.미 관세청에서 2005년 미국에 수출되는 컨테이너에 RFID 태그를 부착하는 정책을 발표하여 2006년부터는 능동형 RFID 태그를 이용한 컨테이너 통관을 시행할 예정이며, 현재 태그 부착은 의무 사항은 아니지만 선별적으로 컨테이너 전수 검사를 실시한다는 방침이어서 반강제적인 성격을 지닌 것으로 판단할 수 있다. 또한, 물류 산업의 변화의 대세에 따라 제조업체의 생산품이 유통 과정을 거쳐 항만에서 처리되는 과정을 실시간으로 추적이 가능함은 물론이고 나아가서 외국 항만과의 연계를 통하여 수출입 전 과정의 추적성을 파악하고 거기에 다른 시스템의 효율적인 통합을 이루어 언제 어디서나 화물의 추적과 관리가 가능한 유비쿼터스 환경의 선진화된 항만 시스템을 구축할 수 있다. 본고에서는 항만 물류용 능동형 RFID 기술과 관련하여 시스템 구성 요소 및 관련 기술 동향, 항만 물류 시스템의 응용에 대해 알아본다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.7-15
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• 2020

In the process of visualizing a point set representing a smooth manifold surface, global illumination techniques can be used to render a realistic scene with various effects of lighting. Thanks to the continuous demand for ray tracing and the development of graphics hardware, dedicated GPUs and programmable pipeline for ray tracing have been introduced in recent years. In this paper, real-time global illumination rendering is studied for a point-set model using ray-tracing GPUs. We apply the moving least-squares (MLS) method to approximate the point set to a smooth implicit surface and render it using global illumination by performing massive ray-intersection tests with the surface and generating shading effects at the intersection point. As a result, a complicated point-set scene consisting of more than 0.5M points can be generated in real-time.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.85-94
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a scheme to reduce the number of shadow tests conducted during rendering of ray tracing. The shadow test is a very important process in ray tracing to generate photo-realistic images. In the rendering phase, the ray tracer determines whether to cull the shadow test based on information calculated from a shadow test conducted on the kd-tree in the preprocessing phase. In conventional rendering process, the proposed method can be used with little modification. The proposed method is suitable for a static scene, in which the geometry and light source does not change in the same manner as it does in the conventional method. The validity of the proposed scheme is verified and its performance is evaluated during cycle-accurate simulation. Through experiment results, we found that we could reduce up to 17% of the shadow test.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.285-298
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• 2000

Objectives : To investigate the positive rate of Helicobacter pylori in patients with dyspepsia; medical compliance and related factors; the eradication rate a year after screening and related factors; the relationship between the eradication of Helicobacter pylori and the improvement of symptoms; and the estimated cost of three alternative approaches to treat Helicobacter pylori in the community. Methods : A total of 510 subjects with dyspeptic symptoms were selected and given the serological test in March 1998. The subjects were all adults over 30 years of age residing in Kyongju city. Results : Of the 510 selected subjects, 375 (73.5%) subjects proved positive for Helicobacter pylori on serological testing. Of these 304 (81.1%) who consented to an endoscopic examination, underwent a Campylobacter-like organism (CLO) test. Of these 304 subjects, 204 (67.1%), who had positive CLO test results, were given the triple therapy - tripotassium dicitrato bismuthate, amoxicillin, and metronidazole. To determine the eradication rate of Helicobacter pylori, 181 (88.1%) out of the 204 subjects who were given the triple therapy completed a follow-up urea breath test one year later. Of these, the Helicobacter pylori of 87(48.1%) subjects was eradicated. Among the 122 subjects who were medication compliant, the Helicobacter pylori eradication rate was 57.4% (70 subjects), while the eradication rates was only 28.8% (17subjects) in the non-compliant group. The Helicobacter pylori eradication was significantly related to compliance (p<0.01), but not to other characteristics and habits. The symptom improvement rate tended to be higher 62.1%), in the Helicobacter pylori eradicated group than in the non-eradicated group (59.6%). Conclusions : When the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative treatment were considered in the light of cost, antibiotic tolerance and the number of patients to be treated, alternative II was favorable in terms of cost. Alternative III was favorable in terms of the number of patients to be treated, antibiotic tolerance and early detection of gastric cancer. Further long-term research analyzing the cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of each treatment will be needed as supporting material in creating new policies.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.469-474
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• 2009

This paper proposes an real time ray tracing system using optimized kd-tree traversal environment and ray/triangle intersection algorithm. The previous kd-tree traversal algorithms search for the upper nodes in a bottom-up manner. In a such way we need to revisit the already visited parent node or use redundant memory after failing to find the intersected primitives in the leaf node. Thus ray tracing for relatively complex scenes become more difficult. The new algorithm contains stacks implemented on GPU's local memory on CUDA framework, thus elegantly eliminate the problems of previous algorithms. After traversing the node we perform the latest CPU-based ray/triangle intersection algorithm 'Plucker coordinate test', which is further accelerated in massively parallel thanks to CUDA. Plucker test can drastically reduce the computational costs since it does not use barycentric coordinates but only simple test using the relations between a ray and the triangle edges. The entire system is consist of a single ray kernel simply and implemented without introduction of complicated synchronization or ray packets. Consequently our experiment shows the new algorithm can is roughly twice as faster as the previous.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.290-294
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• 2013

Stereotactic Radiosurgery require high accuracy and precision of patient positioning and target localization. We evaluate the real time positioning accuracy of isocenter using optic guided patient positioning system, ExacTrac (BrainLab, Germany), during spinal radiosurgery procedure. The system is based on real time detect multiple body markers attached on the selected patient skin landmarks. And a custom designed patient positioning verification tool (PPVT) was used to check the patient alignment and correct the patient repositioning before radiosurgery. In this study, We investigate the selected 8 metastatic spinal tumor cases. All type of tumors commonly closed to thoracic spinal code. To evaluate the isocenter positioning, real time patient alignment and positioning monitoring was carried out for comparing the current 3-dimensional position of markers with those of an initial reference positions. For a selected patient case, we have check the isocenter positioning per every 20 millisecond for 45 seconds during spinal radiosurgery. In this study, real time average isocenter positioning translation were $0.07{\pm}0.17$ mm, $0.11{\pm}0.18$ mm, $0.13{\pm}0.26$ mm, and $0.20{\pm}0.37$ mm in the x (lateral), y (longitudinal), z (vertical) directions and mean spatial error, respectively. And body rotations were $0.14{\pm}0.07^{\circ}$, $0.11{\pm}0.07^{\circ}$, $0.03{\pm}0.04^{\circ}$ in longitudinal, lateral, table directions and mean body rotation $0.20{\pm}0.11^{\circ}$, respectively. In this study, the maximum mean deviation of real time isocenter positioning translation during spinal radiosurgery was acceptable accuracy clinically.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.496-505
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• 1996

지역적으로 널리 분산되어있는 여러 생산지로 부터 원격으로 제조활동의 현황을 원격 및 실시간으로 감시하고 통제 및 관리하는 시스템을 초고속통신망을 이용해 구축하고 이에대한 시제품을 개발하는 것이 본 연구의 최종 목표이다. 본 논문에서는 원격감시 및 검사기술, 원격생산정보취합 및 추적기술, 원격 데이터베이스 설계 및 운영기술, 단말 및 망접속기술등에 대하여 설계하고 시제품 구현에 대한 방법을 소개한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.187-195
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• 2018

In this study, using real-time gaze tracking and head tracking method, we intended to quantitatively evaluate the deviation between the patient's head and gaze direction while minimizing inspection errors due to apraxia of conventional paper-based examination respectively. As a result, we developed a software that can quantitatively measure gaze and head movement information, and computerized the line bisection and star cancelation test, which are generally used as conventional paper test. In addition, for the rehabilitation training, contents corresponding to the visual technology of Warren's visual hierarchical model lower level are implemented and can be performed repetitively and independently. This allows the patient to actively participate in rehabilitation and quantitatively compare the degree of improvement.