• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.269-277
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• 2003

목적: 게이트 심근관류 스펙트는 심근의 관류와 좌심실 기능을 동시에 평가할 수 있는 유용한 방법이다. 현재, 게이트 영상 획득시 8 단위영상이 널리 사용되지만, 아직 가장 적절한 단위영상의 수에 대해서는 논의의 여지가 있다. 본 연구는 동일한 환자에서 8 단위영상과 16 단위영상으로 게이트 심근관류 스펙트를 2회 연속적으로 시행하여 국소적 심근관류, 좌심실 용적과 구혈률등을 비교하였다. 대상 및 방법: 42명(평균 연령: 55세, 남: 녀=26: 16)의 관상동맥 질환이 의심되거나 알려진 환자를 대상으로 안정시 Tc-99m MIBI를 이용한 게이트 스펙트를 8 단위영상과 16 단위영상으로 2회 연속하여 시행하였다. 좌심실의 확장기말 용적, 수축기말 용적과 구혈률을 각각 얻었으며 확장기말의 단층영상을 18 분절로 나누고 각 분절마다 심근의 관류정도를 4등급으로 나누어 국소적 심근관류를 평가하였다. 결과: 8 단위영상과 16 단위영상 게이트 스펙트에서 국소적 심근관류의 일치도는 85.7% (tau-b=0.786, p<0.001)로 우수하였다. 두 방법간에 1등급의 차이는 100 분절(13.2%), 2등급 차이는 8 분절(1.1 %)이 있었고 3등급 차이는 없었다. 좌심실의 확장기말 용적, 수축기말 용적, 구혈률은 두 방법간에 높은 상관성을 보였으며(r=0.993, 0.989, 0.935), 좌심실 구혈률은 8 단위영상을 사용할 때 평균 1.8% 낮게 측정되어 통계적인 유의성은 있었으나(p<0.05), 그 차이는 크지 않았다. 결론: 8 단위영상과 16 단위영상을 사용한 게이트 심근관류 스펙트에서 국소적 심근관류의 일치도는 우수하였으며, 좌심실의 기능적 계수의 차이도 크지 않았다. 비록 높은 단위영상을 사용했을 때 더 정확하고 자세한 정보를 얻을 수 있다 하더라도, 구혈률과 용적 등을 얻는 일상적인 임상검사에는 8 단위영상 또한 그 역할을 충분히 할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1273-1278
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• 2012

In this paper, we introduce modified integer transforms for lossless image compression and evaluate their performances for two-dimensional transforms. The two-dimensional extensions of the modified integer transforms show different performances in terms of coding efficiency and computational complexity. Thus, we measure performances for two-dimensional separable transforms and a two-dimensional non-separable transform. The separable modified integer transform used in H.264, the modified integer transform using the lifting scheme, and the non-separable transform in JPEG XR are evaluated in this paper. Also, experiments and their results are given. The experimental results indicate that the modified integer transform using the lifting scheme shows the best performance in terms of compression efficiency.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.601-608
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• 1999

동맥의 일부분의 팽창하는 동맥류는 높은 사망률을 야기하는 혈관계 질환이다. 동맥류의 발생 및 파열에는 동맥류 내부의 혈류의 유동에 의한 혈관벽 전단 응력 및 압력이 주용한 원인 중 하나로 의심되고 있다. 복부대동맥류 내부의 혈류 유동 특성을 밝히기 위해서 동맥류의 최대 확장부가 복부동맥의 1.5배, 2배인 유리 모델을 제작하였다. 정상류 상태에서 다양한 레이놀즈수에 대해서 속도 및 난동도를 입자영상속도계를 이용하여 측정하였다. 경계층 박리로 인한 재순환 부분이 끝나는 재부착점은 동맥류 최대 확장부 후부에서 발생하였으며, 이 위치는 레이놀즈수의 변화에 따라 바뀌었다. 축방향 속도의 난동은 최대 확장부 후부에서 크게 나타났으며, 이 위치에서 난동에 의한 부가적 응력이 크며 혈관벽 구조변화가 발생하리라 예측된다. 동맥류 내부의 압력분포는 수치해석에 의해 계산되었다. 동맥류 내부 압력은 크기가 증가함에 따라 커졌으며 압력은 동맥류 최대 확장부 후부에서 발생하는 재부착점에서 최대값을 나타내었다. 동맥류 최대확장부 후부는 압력이 최대값을 가지며, 전단력의 변화 및 난동이 큰 지역이므로 동맥류의 파열이 발생하기 쉬운 지역으로 예측된다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.85 no.3
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• pp.581-595
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• 2024

Purpose The present study aimed to investigate the frequency and extent of compensatory common bile duct (CBD) dilatation after cholecystectomy, assess the time between cholecystectomy and CBD dilatation, and identify potentially useful CT findings suggestive of obstructive CBD dilatation. Materials and Methods This retrospective study included 121 patients without biliary obstruction who underwent multiple CT scans before and after cholecystectomy at a single center between 2009 and 2011. The maximum short-axis diameters of the CBD and intrahepatic duct (IHD) were measured on each CT scan. In addition, the clinical and CT findings of 11 patients who were initially excluded from the study because of CBD stones or periampullary tumors were examined to identify distinguishing features between obstructive and non-obstructive CBD dilatation after cholecystectomy. Results The mean (standard deviation) short-axis maximum CBD diameter of 121 patients was 5.6 (± 1.9) mm in the axial plane before cholecystectomy but increased to 7.9 (± 2.6) mm after cholecystectomy (p < 0.001). Of the 106 patients with a pre-cholecystectomy axial CBD diameter of < 8 mm, 39 (36.8%) showed CBD dilatation of ≥ 8 mm after cholecystectomy. Six of the 17 patients with long-term (> 2 years) serial follow-up CT scans (35.3%) eventually showed a significant (> 1.5-fold) increase in the axial CBD diameter, all within two years after cholecystectomy. Of the 121 patients without obstruction or related symptoms, only one patient (0.1%) showed IHD dilatation > 3 mm after cholecystectomy. In contrast, all 11 patients with CBD obstruction had abdominal pain and abnormal laboratory indices, and 81.8% (9/11) had significant dilatation of the IHD and CBD. Conclusion Compensatory non-obstructive CBD dilatation commonly occurs after cholecystectomy to a similar extent as obstructive dilatation. However, the presence of relevant symptoms, significant IHD dilatation, or further CBD dilatation 2-3 years after cholecystectomy should raise suspicion of CBD obstruction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.117-120
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• 1998

주파수 영역에서의 엘리어싱 관계를 이용하여 고해상도 영상을 복원할 때, 기존의 주파수 영역에서의 방법은 복원에 필요한 저해상도 영상이 충분하지 않거나, 저해상도 영상들이 가지는 정보가 적절하지 않을 경우에 대해서 원하는 고해상도의 영상을 얻을 수 없었다. 이를 극복하기 위해 공간 영역으로 재해석하면 확장된 다중채널의 정규화를 사용할 수 있었으며, DFT대신에 DCT를 사용하여 연산량을 줄일 수 있었다. 또한 정규화를 사용하였기 때문에 저해상도 영상의 움직임 정보가 올바르지 않을 경우에도 이를 보상해 줄 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.82 no.3
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• pp.682-687
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• 2021

Systemic-to-pulmonary artery fistulas are rare. This condition may be congenital, post-traumatic, or post-inflammatory and can cause infection, hemorrhage, or pulmonary hypertension. Here, we report a case of an intercostal-to-pulmonary artery fistula, incidentally detected during the evaluation of dyspnea in a 67-year-old female. Retrograde transcatheter coil embolization in a dilated draining pulmonary artery was initially attempted. However, another draining pulmonary artery developed after 5 months. The intercostal arteries or systemic feeders were successfully embolized through a transarterial access. At the 10-month follow-up, the abnormally dilated vessels had regressed, and dyspnea had improved. Sequential or simultaneous retro- and antegrade transcatheter embolization may successfully treat pleural arterio-arterial fistulas.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.633-639
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• 2020

Despite the growing educational demand for the extended reality (XR) convergence content creation for non-IT students, fewer studies have attempted to education material development. In this paper, non-IT students' requirement to create XR convergence contents was analyzed and designed framework system specification. The object-oriented application framework (OOAF) was developed for non-IT students to create XR convergence contents through simple interaction methods such as drag and drop in-game engines. To evaluate the developed framework XR contents development course was operated with 26 industrial design majors sophomore in university. More than 90% of students succeeded in working on prototype XR contents in Oculus Rift. This result will be expected to improve the quality of XR contents creation education for non-IT students and contribute to the growth of the future convergence contents industry.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.630-632
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• 2012

Contemporary society has evolved in the digital information age. Because of this, use of various digital images has been increased. To process these images, various digital image processing methods are used. Edge detection methods, one of those, are utilized to various areas of application such as object recognition, line detection. To detect edge, there are many methods such as Sobel, Prewitt, Laplacian. Because images which are dealt with existing methods are processed in same methods regardless the distribution of gray-level in image, edge detection property is insufficient. Therefore, In this study, to improve shortcomings of existing methods an algorithm using modified expansion mask is proposed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.1072-1086
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• 1998

Transform, subband, and wavelet transform decompositions are powerful linear transformation tools in image coding because of their decorrelating effects on image pixels, the concentration of energy in a few coefficients, their multirat/multiresolution framework, and their frequency splitting, which allows for efficient coding matched to the statistics of each frequency band and to the characteristics of the human visulal system. Thus, a growingbody of research has bee performed to extend these tools in various kinds of modified formations. Hence, in this paper, an overall survey to achieve a general view on these transformation tools have been attempted. Starting from basic tools such as orthogonal transforms, lapped transforms, QMF(quadrature mirror filter) subband filter banks, and wavelet transforms, their hierarchical extensions, vector extensions, and linear time-varying extensions are investugated in detail.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.329-339
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• 2003

In this study, an approach of image fusion in decision level has been proposed for unsupervised image classification using the images acquired from multiple sensors with different characteristics. The proposed method applies separately for each sensor the unsupervised image classification scheme based on spatial region growing segmentation, which makes use of hierarchical clustering, and computes iteratively the maximum likelihood estimates of fuzzy class vectors for the segmented regions by EM(expected maximization) algorithm. The fuzzy class vector is considered as an indicator vector whose elements represent the probabilities that the region belongs to the classes existed. Then, it combines the classification results of each sensor using the fuzzy class vectors. This approach does not require such a high precision in spatial coregistration between the images of different sensors as the image fusion scheme of pixel level does. In this study, the proposed method has been applied to multispectral SPOT and AIRSAR data observed over north-eastern area of Jeollabuk-do, and the experimental results show that it provides more correct information for the classification than the scheme using an augmented vector technique, which is the most conventional approach of image fusion in pixel level.