• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.21 no.3 s.61
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• pp.239-246
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• 2000

In this paper. we propose a semi-automatic segmentation algorithm to extract organ in 3D medical data by using a manually segmentation result in a sing1e slice. Generally region glowing based tracking method consists of 3 steps object projection. seed extraction and boundary decision by region growing. But because the boundary between organs in medical data is vague, improper seeds make the boundary dig into the organ or extend to the false region. In the proposed algorithm seeds are carefully extracted to find suitable boundaries between organs after region growing. And the jagged boundary at low gradient region after region growing is corrected by post-processing using Fourier descriptor. Also two-path tracking make it possible to catch up newly appeared areas. The proposed algorithm provides satisfactory results in segmenting 1 mm distance kidneys from X-rav CT body image set of 82 slices.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.33-39
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• 2023

As the number of people with chronic diseases increases due to an aging society, it is urgent to prevent and manage their diseases. Although biometric authentication methods and Telemedicine Systems have been introduced to solve these problems, it is difficult to solve the security problem of medical information and personal authentication. Since smart healthcare includes personal medical information of subjects, the security of personal information is the most important field. Therefore, in this paper, we tried to propose a Telemedicine System using a smart wearable device ECG in the form of a wristband and face personal authentication in a private blockchain environment. This system targets various medical personnel and patients with chronic diseases in all regions, and uses a private blockchain that can increase data integrity and transparency, ECG and face authentication that are difficult to forge and alter and have high personal identification to provide a system with high security and reliability. composed. Through this, it is intended to contribute to increasing the efficiency of chronic disease management by focusing on disease prevention and health management for patients with chronic diseases at home.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.10A no.2
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• pp.157-164
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• 2003

Volume graphics have received a lot of attention as a medical image analysis tool nowadays. In the visualization based on volume graphics, there is a process called voxelization which transforms the geometrically defined objects into the volumetric objects. It enables us to volume render the geometrically defined data with sampling data. This paper suggests a voxeliration method using the cutting surfaces of cubes, implements the method on a PC, and evaluates it with simple geometric modeling data to explore propriety of the method. This method features the ability of calculating the exact normal vector from a voxel, having no hole among voxels, having multi-resolution representation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1506-1509
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 고성능 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) 복호기 설계를 위한 효율적인 in-loop filter의 하드웨어 구조 설계에 대해 기술한다. in-loop filter는 deblocking filter와 SAO로 구성되며, 블록 단위 영상 압축 및 양자화 등에서 발생하는 정보의 손실을 보상하는 기술이다. 하지만 HEVC는 $64{\times}64$ 블록 크기까지 화소 단위 연산을 수행하기 때문에 높은 연산시간 및 연산량이 요구된다. 따라서 본 논문에서 제안하는 in-loop filter의 deblocking filter 모듈과 SAO 모듈은 최소 연산 단위인 $8{\times}8$ 블록 연산기로 구성하여 하드웨어 면적을 최소화하였다. 또한 SAO에서는 $8{\times}8$ 블록의 연산 결과를 내부레지스터에 저장하는 구조로 $64{\times}64$ 블록 크기를 지원하도록 설계하여 연산시간 및 연산량을 최소화 하였다. 제안하는 하드웨어 구조는 Verilog HDL로 설계하였으며, TSMC 칩 공정 180nm 셀 라이브러리로 합성한 결과 동작 주파수는 270MHz이고, 전체 게이트 수는 48.9k이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.787-788
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• 2009

시계열 데이터(time-series data)는 연속적인 데이터를 고정된 시간 간격으로 샘플링한 실수 값들의 연속을 의미한다. 시계열 데이터의 예로는, 음악 및 동영상 데이터, 심전도 데이터, 주식 그래프 등의 데이터가 있다. 시계열 데이터는 다시 데이터베이스에 저장 되어있는 데이터 시퀀스(data sequence)와, 사용자에 의해 주어지는 질의 시퀀스(query sequence)로 분류된다. 시계열 데이터베이스(time-series database)에서 순위를 지원하는 서브시퀀스 매칭 방법(ranked subsequence matching)은 데이터 시퀀스와 질의 시퀀스가 주어졌을 때, 질의 시퀀스의 길이와 같은 데이터 시퀀스의 서브시퀀스(subsequence)들 중에서 질의 시퀀스와 가장 유사한 상위 k개의 서브시퀀스들을 찾는 것이다. 본 논문의 목적은 사용자가 매칭 방법에 대한 인식과 이해가 부족하더라도 기존의 콘솔 기반의 매칭 프로그램을 보다 쉽게 사용할 수 있도록 이용성을 향상시키기 위하여 시각화 툴을 개발하는 것이다. 구체적으로, 5가지 시각화(visualization) 기능을 제공하는 사용자 인터페이스를 구현하였다. 구현된 사용자 인터페이스를 통해 사용자가 기존의 매칭 프로그램을 보다 쉽고 간편하게 사용할 수 있도록 기여한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.655-658
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• 2021

The purpose of multimodal medical image fusion (MMIF) is to integrate images of different modes with different details into a result image with rich information, which is convenient for doctors to accurately diagnose and treat the diseased tissues of patients. Encouraged by this purpose, this paper proposes a novel method based on a two-scale decomposer and detail preservation model. The first step is to use the two-scale decomposer to decompose the source image into the energy layers and structure layers, which have the characteristic of detail preservation. And then, structure tensor operator and max-abs are combined to fuse the structure layers. The detail preservation model is proposed for the fusion of the energy layers, which greatly improves the image performance. The fused image is achieved by summing up the two fused sub-images obtained by the above fusion rules. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method has superior performance compared with the state-of-the-art fusion methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.737-739
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• 2023

몰입형 가상현실 시스템은 더 나은 3차원 시각정보를 제공할 수 있어, 의료계에서 해부학에 대한 이해를 높이는 데 사용되고 있다. 우리는 몰입형 가상현실에서 다중 사용자가 함께 MRI 영상으로부터 생성된 볼륨 렌더링 된 객체를 관찰하고 수술을 계획할 수 있는 시스템을 개발하여 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.29-38
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• 2012

The noise generated in the process of obtaining the medical image acts as the element obstructing the image interpretation and diagnosis. To restore the true image from the image polluted from the noise, the total variation optimization algorithm was proposed by the R.O. F (L.Rudin, S Osher, E. Fatemi). This method removes the noise by fitting the balance of the regularity and fidelity. However, the blurring phenomenon of the border area generated in the process of performing the iterative operation cannot be avoided. In this paper, we propose the adaptive total variation method by mapping the control parameter to the proposed transfer function for minimizing boundary error. The proposed transfer function is determined by the noise variance and the local property of the image. The proposed method was applied to 464 tooth images. To evaluate proposed method performance, PSNR which is a indicator of signal and noise's signal power ratio was used. The experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance than other methods.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.1-12
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• 2014

This paper implements and improves the performance of high computational subtractive clustering algorithm using a single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) based many-core processor. In addition, this paper implements five different processing element (PE) architectures (PEs=16, 64, 256, 1,024, 4,096) to select an optimal PE architecture for the subtractive clustering algorithm by estimating execution time and energy efficiency. Experimental results using two different medical images and three different resolutions ($128{\times}128$, $256{\times}256$, $512{\times}512$) show that PEs=4,096 achieves the highest performance and energy efficiency for all the cases.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.17B no.4
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• pp.275-286
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• 2010

Reversible watermarking which can preserve the original quality of the digital contents and protect the copyright has been studied actively. Especially, in medical, military, and art fields, the need for reversible watermarking is increasing. This paper proposes a high-capacity reversible watermarking through predicted error expansion and error estimation compensation. Watermark is embedded by expanding the difference histogram between the original value and the predicted value. Differently from previous methods calculating the difference between adjacent pixels, the presented method calculates the difference between the original value and the predicted value, and that increases the number of the histogram value, where the watermark is embedded. As a result, the high capacity is achieved. The inserted watermark is extracted by restoring the histogram between the original value and the predicted value. To prove the performance, the presented algorithm is compared with other previous methods on various test images. The result supports that the presented algorithm has a perfect reversibility, a high image quality, and a high capacity.