• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.84 no.1
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• pp.110-126
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• 2023

Because of their small size, small bowel malignancies are often easily missed when radiologists read CT images, which can lead to errors in the normal small bowel due to their similar enhancement to the small bowel or non-specific enhancement. In addition, small bowel malignancies are sometimes mistaken for masses of other origins, such as the uterus, rectum, or omentum. In this article, we describe various small-bowel malignancies, their mimicking lesions and the typical and atypical features on CT imaging along with their clinical manifestations.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.82 no.4
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• pp.876-888
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• 2021

Purpose The aim of this study was to compare the diameter and volume of liver metastases on CT images in relation to overall survival and tumor response in patients with gastric cancer liver metastases (GCLM) treated with chemotherapy. Materials and Methods We recruited 43 patients with GCLM who underwent chemotherapy as a first-line treatment. We performed a three-dimensional quantification of the metastases for each patient. An independent survival analysis using the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) was performed and compared to volumetric measurements. Overall survival was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier analysis and compared using Cox proportional hazard ratios following univariate analyses. Results When patients were classified as responders or non-responders based on volumetric criteria, the median overall survival was 23.6 months [95% confidence interval (CI), 8.63-38.57] and 7.6 months (95% CI, 3.78-11.42), respectively (p = 0.039). The volumetric analysis and RECIST of the non-progressing and progressing groups showed similar results based on the Kaplan-Meier method (p = 0.006) and the Cox proportional hazard model (p = 0.008). Conclusion Volumetric assessment of liver metastases could be an alternative predictor of overall survival for patients with GCLM treated with chemotherapy.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.359-365
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• 2016

Fluoroscopy is performed when tissue or organ in the human body is examined, and it is used for diagnosis and procedure in back ailments. With regard to fluoroscopy equipment, distortion occurs on the peripheral part of fluoroscopic image rather than on its central part. This study measured distortion factors of vertical spacing ratio and distortion factor of diagonal spacing ratio before and after correction by applying a correction algorithm. According to measuring the vertical spacing ratio, post-correction standard deviation decreased by 0.04 in comparison with pre-correction one. Also measuring the diagonal spacing ratio, post-correction standard deviation decreased by 0.06 in comparison with pre-correction one. Consequently, the distortion of fluoroscopic image decreased after correction. A decrease in the distortion of image through the application of correction algorithm and the improvement of performance will be helpful in finding a correct position of lumbar puncture in nucleoplasty to treat lumbar disc herniation in the future.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.18C no.6
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• pp.433-440
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new scheduling method that can guarantee reliable jitter by minimizing the queue length variation in the streaming service provisioning such as IPTV and VoD. The amount of traffic to be delivered within a certain time is very fluid because MPEG-4 and H.264 encoders use VBR(Variable Bit Rate) for delivering video streaming traffic. This VBR characteristic increases the end-to-end propagation delay variation when existing scheduling methods are used for delivering video frames. Therefore, we propose the new scheduling method that can minimize change rate of queue length by adaptively controling service rate taking into account the size of bulk incoming packets and arrival rate for bulk streaming traffic. Video frames can be more reliably transmitted through the minimization of the queue length variation using the proposed method. We use the queueing model and also carry out OPNET simulation to validate the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.73-79
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• 2019

This study simulated external ear canal modeling with different external ear canal lengths, vertical flexion angles, and inner/outer diameter ratios using digital imaging and communications in medicine(DICOM) of the head temporal region and measured the acoustic sensitivity. The experiment was performed by increasing the audible frequency for humans by 200 Hz and expressing the frequency constantly transmitted at 1 Pa as the eardrum acoustic volume and presented the measurements by linear and quadratic curve regression analysis. The results showed that the longer the external ear canal length and the higher the ratio of the outer/inner diameter, the faster the acoustic response at lower frequencies. The acoustic sensitivity correlation of the meta-model using regression analysis showed a 77% influence by the external ear canal length and 5% by the external/internal diameter ratio, while the vertical flexion angle did not show a significant relationship. This showed that auditory acoustic sensitivity of humans is a factor that reacts faster at a low frequency when the external ear canal length is longer and when the difference between the outer and inner diameter is higher.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.7C
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• pp.921-930
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• 2004

In this paper, a robust video transmission system is proposed. To effectively prevent the corruption of video stream and its propagation in spatial and temporal domains, a version of turbo code, so-called as byte-aligned variable-length turbo code, is applied. Protection performance of the proposed turbo code is first evaluated by applying it to GOB-based variable-size ITU-T H.263+ video packets, where the protection level is statically controlled based on the joint source-channel criteria. This protection is then extended to support the adaptation of code ratio to best match the time-varying channel condition. The time-varying Rayleigh fading channel is modelled considering the correlation of the fading channel. The resulting performance comparison with the static turbo code as well as the conventional RCPC code clearly demonstrates the possibility of the proposed adaptation approach for the time-varying correlated Rayleigh-fading channel.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.263-266
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 터널 구조물에서 발생하는 균열의 인식과 이에 대한 정보를 획득하기 위한 방법에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 터널 구조물에서 발생하는 균열의 경우, 건설 분야의 특수성 때문에 기존의 경계점 인식(edge detection) 알고리즘을 적용하는 경우 정밀도 저하의 문제가 발생한다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하고 더불어 정밀도를 향상시킬 수 있는 방법으로 영상에서 균열을 인식하는 균열 인식 단계와 인식된 균열의 길이, 두께 등을 측정하는 균열 정보 획득 단계로 구분하였다. 균열 인식 단계에서는 균열의 시작점과 끝점을 기준으로 휴리스틱(Heuristic) 알고리즘을 사용하여 픽셀 값의 분포에 따라 균열의 중심선을 계산하여 균열을 인식한다. 균열 정보 획득 단계에서는 균열 인식 단계에서 얻은 정보를 통해 균열의 길이, 진행 방향 정보, 그리고 균열의 두께를 계산한다. 균열의 길이 및 진행 방향 정보는 균열 인식 단계에서 얻어진 정보를 통하여 계산하며, 균열 두께 측정은 각 픽셀의 누적 값을 이용하여 계산하는 원형 검출기(Daugman 알고리즘)를 변형하여 사용하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.365-372
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 콘크리트 표면 균열 영상에서 균열의 특징들을 추출하기 위하여, 영상 처리 기법을 개선하여 균열의 특징(길이,폭,방향)들을 자동으로 추출 및 분석 할 수 있는 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 영상 처리 기법에서는 비교적 잡음이 적고 균열이 적은 영상을 대상으로 균열을 추출하는 알고리즘을 제시하였기 때문에 많은 잡음과 균열을 가지는 영상에 대해서는 균열 검출 성능이 떨어지는 경향이 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서 제안한 균열 추출 및 분석 알고리즘은 컬러 영상에서 Histogram Stretching 기법을 적용하여 영상의 콘트라스트 특성을 향상 시킨 후, Robert 연산자를 다시 적용해 균열을 강조하고, 강조된 균열을 Multiple 연산을 이용하여 밝기 차이를 크게 한 후, 개선된 적응 이진화기법을 이용하여 균열의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 균열 후보 영역을 형상 분석과 위치 및 방향분석을 이용하여 잡음을 제거하고 균열의 특징을 분석한다. 실제 콘크리트 표면 균열 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 균열 검출 성능이 기존의 방법보다 본 논문에서 제안한 방법이 더 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.232-237
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• 2004

영상 워핑 및 모핑은 영상 안에서 각 화소들 사이의 공간적인 관계를 재구성하는 영상처리와 컴퓨터 그래픽스 기술이 결합된 분야로서 메쉬 방식과 필드 방식 둥이 대표적이다. 이중에서 필드 방식은 상대적으로 많은 연산량을 요구하는 것에 반해 제어선 설정이 용이하며 설정된 제어선의 위치나 길이의 변화에 대해 비교적 덜 민감하다는 장점이 있다. 필드 방식은 사용자가 제어선을 지정하는 과정의 대부분을 수작업에 의존하기 때문에 작업 시간이 많이 소요될 뿐만 아니라 양질의 결과를 얻기 위해서는 숙련을 요하는 불편함이 있다. 본 논문은 소스 영상과 목표 영상에서 워핑 대상체 쌍의 형상 정보를 획득한 상태에서 사용자가 수동으로 최소한의 특징점 쌍만을 지정하면 이렇게 지정된 특징점 쌍을 기준 삼아 다각형 기반 정점 탐색에 의해 소스 영상과 목표 영상에 상호 대응되는 제어선들을 자동적으로 설정한 후, 제어선 길이의 비율과 제어선으로부터의 이격 거리를 이용하여 영상 워핑과 모핑을 수행함으로써 영상 워핑 및 모핑의 반자동화를 실현할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에 따르면, 사용자가 제어선을 설정하는 시간을 단축할 수 있고 비숙련자도 최소의 제어선만을 지정하여 자연스러운 워핑 및 모핑의 결과를 획득할 수 있는 이점이 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.235-237
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• 2022

Video content is divided into long-form video content and short-form video content according to the length. Long form video content is created with a length of 15 minutes or longer, and all frames of the captured video are included without editing. Short-form video content can be edited to a shorter length from 1 minute to 15 minutes, and only some frames from the frames of the captured video. Due to the recent growth of the single-person broadcasting market, the demand for short-form video content to increase viewers is increasing. Therefore, there is a need for research on content editing technology for editing and generating short-form video content. This study studies the technology to create short-form videos of main scenes by capturing images, voices, and motions. Short-form videos of key scenes use a pre-trained highlight extraction model through machine learning. An automatic video editing system and method for automatically generating a highlight video is a core technology of short-form video content. Machine learning-based automatic video editing method and system research will contribute to competitive content activities by reducing the effort and cost and time invested by single creators for video editing