• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.291-297
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to optimize a parallel-hole collimator for small gamma camera having the pixellated crystal array and evaluate the effect of crystal-collimator misalignment on the image quality using a simulation tool GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission). The spatial resolution and sensitivity were measured for the various size of hexagonal-hole and matched square-hole collimators with a Tc-99m point source and the uniformity of flood image was estimated as a function of the angle between crystal array and collimator by misalignment. The results showed that the spatial resolution and sensitivity were greatly improved by using the matched collimator and the uniformity was reduced by crystal-collimator misalignment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.271-274
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• 2016

CT quality assurance imaging evaluation and enforcement as quantitative assessment by phantom image evaluation, assessment items include There are also contrasting the water attenuation coefficient, uniformity, noise, resolution, spatial resolution, 10mm slice thickness evaluation, contrast resolution, space for the resolution, the slice thickness evaluation, it is possible to estimate the error due to the evaluation by the subjective judgment of the tester, using a subjective error image processing program to be computed to minimize the objective evaluation. Basic recording conditions of the CT image quality control assessment is the same as special medical equipment quality control checks, the images were evaluated quantitatively using IMAGE J. For a CT attenuation coefficient, the uniformity, noise evaluation, were evaluated as CT quality control image the standard deviation of the measured value of the digital processing of image smaller and less noise uniform images than the, contrast and resolution assessment is the size of the diameter of a circle having a large the 1 inch, 0.75 inch, 0.5 inch quality if the diameter of the circle, was evaluated in the small circle in the near circle ellipse. Spatial resolution is evaluated by using a self-extracting features of an image processing program, all of the groups of members comprising the acceptance criteria to automatically extract, was evaluated to be very useful for the quantitative assessment. When CT image quality control assessment on the basis of the results such as the above, if using an image processing program to minimize the subjective judgment of the error evaluator and is determined more efficient than would be made quantitative evaluation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.217-226
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• 2012

This study examines image quality of medical image after compression using JPEG2000 for AAPM CT Performance Phantom in PACS. The compressed images of 15:1 showed change of 1.93% and 0.81% in the CT number of water and the slice thickness, respectively, compared to the original images. The variation of the uniformity did not give a correlation for each measured area. In noise measurements at compressions of 10:1 and 15:1, changes of 1.47% to 10.99% were observed, respectively. The noise showed incremation tendency as increasing over the compression ratio 15:1, and the noise of 81.68% was measured at a compression of 40:1. CT number, uniformity, slice thickness, spatial resolution and contrast resolution for the compressed images were slightly changed by increasing the compression ratio. However, the noise was seriously changed relatively at the compressed images. Thus the noise was a important factor to determine the compression ration. A compression ratio of 10:1 for the AAPM CT Performance Phantom image was appropriate and could be applied to diagnostic images.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.504-508
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• 2010

In conventional diagnostic ultrasound strain imaging, when displaying strain image on a monitor, human visual characteristics are utilized such that hard regions are displayed as dark and soft regions are displayed as bright. Thus, hard regions representing tumor or cancer are displayed as dark, decreasing the contrast inside the lesion. Because the lesion area is stiff and thus displayed as dark, a method of inverting the image brightness and thereby increasing the contrast in the lesion for better diagnostic purposes is proposed wherein a postcompression signal is extended in the time domain by a factor corresponding to the reciprocal of the amount of the applied compression using a technique termed globally uniform stretching. Experiments were carried out to verify the proposed method on an ultrasound elasticity phantom with radio-frequency data acquired from a diagnostic ultrasound clinical scanner. It is found that the new method improves the contrast-to-noise ratio by a factor of up to about 1.8 compared to a conventional strain imaging method that employs a reversed gray color map without globally uniform stretching.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.133-138
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• 2015

This paper presents a performance improvement of gray level co-occurrence matrix(GLCM) based on the nonuniform quantization, which is generally used to analyze the texture of images. The nonuniform quantization is given by Lloyd algorithm of recursive technique by minimizing the mean square error. The nonlinear intensity levels by performing nonuniformly the quantization of image have been used to decrease the dimension of GLCM, that is applied to reduce the computation loads as a results of generating the GLCM and calculating the texture parameters by using GLCM. The proposed method has been applied to 30 images of $120{\times}120$ pixels with 256-gray level for analyzing the texture by calculating the 6 parameters, such as angular second moment, contrast, variance, entropy, correlation, inverse difference moment. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a superior computation time and memory to the conventional 256-level GLCM method without performing the quantization. Especially, 16-gray level by using the nonuniform quantization has the superior performance for analyzing textures to another levels of 48, 32, 12, and 8 levels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.675-679
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• 1996

제품의 소형화, 고성능화, 부품의 제작기술의 급속한 발전으로 SMD실장기술은 소형화, 고밀도화로 진 보를 이루어왔다. 그러나, 기존의 PCB 검사 방법으로는 정확하고, 균일한 검사가 어려워 이를 해결할 수 있는 검사 방법이 요구되어 왔다. Machine Vsion에 의한 검사는 균일하고 정확하며, 불량의 유형도 판별하여 전체 공정의 제어가 가능한 방법이다. 본 연구에서는 영상처리에 적합한 영상을 쉽게 얻을 수 있도록 고휘도 LED를 사용하고, 밝기 조절이 가능한 영상획득부를 설계하였으며, Morphology filter룰 사용하여 빠르고, 안정된 noise 제거 및 edge 검출 알고리즘을 구현하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.1646-1657
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• 1996

This paper presents a color transformation method based on a uniform color image model. Firstly, color variation factors are grouped into identical (multiplicative) factor and independent(additive) one for the color model, and they are modelled by the Gaussian function. The shape of a color cluster in (R, G, B) feature space is an ellipsoid whose elongated major axis correspond to the direction of mean vector. Secondly, the transformation of a color cluster using the model is studied. A transformation method for three dimensional coordinated is described. The proposed method is applied to artificial and natural color images. By the result of experiments, the elongated major axis of each cluster making up the transformed color image aggress with the direction of its mean vector.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.01a
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• pp.465-467
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 영상생성이 가능한 딥러닝 네트워크를 이용하여 조영증강 CT 영상을 획득하는 연구를 수행하였다. CT는 고해상도 영상을 바탕으로 환자의 질병 및 암 세포 진단에 사용되는 의료영상 기법 중 하나이다. 특히, 조영제를 투여한 다음 CT 영상을 획득되는 영상을 조영증강 CT 영상이라 한다. 조영증강된 CT 영상은 물질의 구성 성분의 영상대비를 강조하여 임상의로 하여금 진단 및 치료반응 평가의 정확성을 향상시켜준다. 하지많은 수의 환자들이 조영제 부작용을 갖기 때문에 이에 해당되는 환자의 경우 조영증강 CT 영상 획득이 불가능해진다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 조영증강 영상을 얻지 못하는 환자 및 일반 환자의 불필요한 방사선의 노출을 최소화 하기 위하여 영상생성 딥러닝 기법을 이용하여 CT 영상에서 조영증강 CT 영상을 생성하는 연구를 진행하였다. 영상생성 딥러닝 네트워크는 generative adversarial network (GAN) 모델을 사용하였다. 연구결과 아무런 전처리도 거치지 않은 CT 영상을 이용하여 영상을 생성하는 것 보다 히스토그램 균일화 과정을 거친 영상이 더 좋은 결과를 나타냈으며 생성영상이 기존의 실제 영상과 영상의 구조적 유사도가 높음을 확인할 수 있다. 본 연구결과 딥러닝 영상생성 모델을 이용하여 조영증강 CT 영상을 생성할 수 있었으며, 이를 통하여 환자의 불필요한 방사선 피폭을 최소하며, 생성된 조영증강 CT 영상을 바탕으로 정확한 진단 및 치료반응 평가에 기여할 수 있을거라 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.6702-6709
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• 2014

In this study, a susceptibility weighted image (SWI) showed a wrapped phase and a non-uniformity of the rapid susceptibility difference. Consequently, the bandwidth limits at low frequency were improved by applying HPF. From November 2013 to March 2014, a three-dimensional SWI was obtained from patients and compared with the existing images and HPF phase images. The maximum and minimum signal intensity differences and non-uniformity were analyzed. As a result, a high pass filter before and after applying the maximum and minimum of the signal intensity difference was decreased by 274.16% (498.98), and the non-uniformity was decreased by 439.55% (19.83). After applying the HPF, a comparison with the existing phase images revealed the HPF phase images to have high signal and image uniformity of the SWI image. A high pass filter method can effectively remove the non-uniformity and improve the overall image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.100-100
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• 2010

토모그래피는 플라즈마 물리학뿐만 아니라 의료영상이나 천문학 등의 분야에서 오랫동안 이용되어 온 기법으로 직접 들여다 볼 수 없는 단면을 선적분된 데이터를 이용하여 국지적인 데이터를 재구성해내는 영상진단 방법이다. 플라즈마 물리학의 경우 공간적으로 검출기 배열을 균일하게 배치할 수 없으므로 토모그래피 기법에 균일화는 필수적이다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 Phillips-Tikhonov 균일화 방법을 사용하였다. Phillip-Tikhonov 균일화 방법은 인접한 픽셀 사이의 구배(gradient)를 최소화하는 방향으로 단면영상을 재구성하는 방식으로, 다른 토모그래피 알고리듬에 비해 훨씬 더 정확한 결과를 보여준다. 본 연구에서는 플라즈마의 공간분포 진단을 위하여 토모그래피 진단법과 부유탐침 진단법을 사용하였다. 플라즈마의 선적분된 방출광을 디지털카메라로 측정한 후 Phillips-Tikhonov 토모그래피 방법으로 재구성하여 플라즈마의 국지적인 공간분포를 알아내었다. 결과의 타당성을 확보하기 위해 부유탐침 진단결과와 비교 분석하여, 전자온도가 위치에 따라 일정한 상태에서 부유탐침을 통한 밀도분포와 토모그래피 진단법에 의한 플라즈마 방출광 세기의 공간분포가 거의 일치함을 확인할 수 있었다. 이를 통해 플라즈마의 국지적인 공간분포 진단을 위한 디지털카메라를 이용한 토모그래피 진단법의 타당성을 검증하였다.