• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.73-80
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• 2012

Recently, medical equipments are developed and used for diagnosis or studies. In addition, demand of techniques which automatically deal with three dimensional medical images obtained from the medical equipments is growing. One of the techniques is automatic bone segmentation which is expected to enhance the diagnosis efficiency of osteoporosis, fracture, and other bone diseases. Although various researches have been proposed to solve it, they are unable to be used in practice since a size of the medical data is large and there are many low contrast boundaries with other tissues. In this paper, we present a fast and accurate automatic framework for bone segmentation based on multi-resolutions. On a low resolution step, a position of the bone is roughly detected using constrained branch and mincut which find the optimal template from the training set. Then, the segmentation and the registration are iteratively conducted on the multiple resolutions. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we make an experiment with femur and tibia from 50 test knee magnetic resonance images using 100 training set. The proposed method outperformed the constrained branch and mincut in aspect of segmentation accuracy and implementation time.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.805-813
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• 2012

In this paper, we have designed and developed a middleware for an effectively approaching database to the existed brain disease clinical research system. The brain disease clinical research system was consisted of two parts i.e., a register and an analyzer. Since the register collects the registration data the analyzer yields a statistical data which based on the diverse variables. The middleware has designed to database management and a large data query processing of clients. By separating the function of each feature as a module, the module which was weakened connectivity between functionalities has been implemented the re-use module. And image data module used a new compression method from image to text for an effective management and storage in database. We tested the middleware system using 700 actual clinical medical data. As a result, the total data transmission time was improved maximum 115 times faster than the existing one. Through the improved module structures, it is possible to provide a robust and reliable system operation and enhanced security functionality. In the future, these middleware importances should be increased to the large medical database constructions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.314-316
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 의료영상 영역화 기법으로 이용되는 레이블 융합 기법을 기반으로, 정합 기법을 이용했을 시 빈번하게 발생하는 경계에서의 오차를 크게 줄여줄 수 있는 기법을 제안한다. 패치 기반 레이블 융합 기법은 패치 간의 밝기 값의 유사도를 기반으로 융합 가중치를 계산하였지만 이는 밝기의 분포가 상대적으로 다른 자기공명영상에 적합하지 못한 경우가 많았다. 본 논문에서는 밝기 값과 함께 밝기 값의 경사도 유사도를 추가적으로 계산하여 융합 가중치를 얻어내는 기법을 제안한다. 밝기의 분포가 다른 영역에서도 밝기의 경사도 분포는 대부분 유사하기 때문에, 오차가 많은 모호한 경계에서 향상된 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 제안하는 기법의 성능평가를 위해 50 개의 SKI10 무릎 관절 데이터 셋 내에서 대퇴골을 영역화 하였다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 기법이 밝기 값 유사도 정보만을 이용했던 기법에 비해 개선된 성능을 보이고 있음을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.223-231
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• 1997

In this paper, an interframe coding method for volumetric medical images is proposed. By treating interslice variations as the motion of bones or tissues, we use the motion compensation (MC) technique to predict the current frame from the previous frame. Instead of a block matching algorithm (BMA), which is the most common motion estimation (ME) algorithm in video coding, image warping with biolinear transformation has been suggested to predict complex interslice object variation in medical images. When an object disappears between slices, however, warping prediction has poor performance. In order to overcome this drawback, an overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) technique is combined with carping prediction. Motion compensated residual images are then encoded by using an embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW) coder with small modification for consistent quality of reconstructed images. The experimental results show that the interframe coding suing warping prediction provides better performance compared with interframe coding, and the OBMC scheme gives some additional improvement over the warping-only MC method.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.233-242
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• 1998

In anatomical aspects, magnetic resonance image offers more accurate information than other medical images such as X ray ultrasonic and CT images. This paper introduces a method that recognizes disk diseases from spine MR images. In this method, image enhancement, image segmentation and feature extraction for sagittal plane and axial plane images are performed to separate the disk region. And then template matching method is used to extract disease region for axial plane imges. Finally, disease feature vectors are integrated and disease discrimination processes are performed. Experimental results show that the proposed method discriminates between normal and diseased disk with a considerable recognition ratio.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.715-717
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• 2003

2차원 의료 영상으로부터 3차원 모델을 재구성 하면 여러 의학 분야에 효과적으로 활용할 수 있다. 컬러 영상이나 MRI의 영상은 표면을 자동으로 식별하기 어렵기 때문에 구역화한 결과로 나오는 외곽선으로부터 표면을 재구성해야한다. 표면 재구성을 위한 기존의 삼각형화 알고리즘은 모델이 복잡할 경우 수행속도가 저하되는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 정합되는 부분과 나머지 부분을 따로 처리하는 기존 방법 대신에, 알맞은 위치에 연결간선들만 결정하여 연결한 후, 그 사이의 정점들을 연결하는 간단한 삼각형화 알고리즘으로 속도를 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.43-51
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• 1991

본 논문에서는 초음파 의료 진단기용 선형 배열 변환기의 설계 및 제작을 수행하였다. 설계시에 는 펄스 인가시의 경우 유용한 등가회로인 KLM 모델을 이용한 전산기의 모의실험을 행하였다. 설계된 변환기는 동작 주파수 3.5MHz, 길이 120mm인 변환기이며 폭은 13mm이며 8개의 부소자로 이루어진 64 개의 소자를 갖는 변환기이다. 설계, 제작된 변환기는 효율적인 에너지 전달과 광대역 특성을 갖도록 하 기 위하여 2개의 음향 정합창을 갖도록 하였으며 압전 물질의 형태에 의해 집속되도록 하였다. 제작된 변환기의 성능 비교를 위해 제작된 변환기와 상용의 변환기의 성능을 동일한 조건에서 측정하였다. 측 정결과, 제작된 변환기는 우수한 성능을 갖는 것을 확인하였으며 실제 초음파 영상진단기에 사용할 경 우 좋은 상을 얻을 수 있다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.34-40
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• 2009

Transforms including translation and rotation are required for registering two or more images. In medical applications, different registration methods have been applied depending on the structures: for rigid bodies such as bone structures, affine transformation was widely used. In most previous research, a single transform was used for registering the whole images, which resulted in low registration accuracy especially when the degree of deformation was high between two images. In this paper, a novel registration method is introduced which is based image sub-division and bilinear interpolation of transformations. The proposed method enhanced the registration accuracy by 40% comparing with Trimmed ICP for registering color and MRI images.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.229-240
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• 2019

3D geo-spatial model have been widely used in the field of Civil Engineering, Medical, Computer Graphics, Urban Management and many other. Especially, the demand for high quality 3D spatial information such as precise road map construction has explosively increased, MMS and UAV techniques have been actively used to acquire them more easily and conveniently in surveying and geo-spatial field. However, in order to perform 3D modeling by integrating the two data set from MMS and UAV, its so needed an proper registration method is required to efficiently correct the difference between the raw data acquisition sensor, the point cloud data generation method, and the observation accuracy occurred when the two techniques are applied. In this study, we obtained UAV point colud data in Yeouido area as the study area in order to determine the automatic registration performance between MMS and UAV point cloud data using ICP(Iterative Closet Point) method. MMS observations was then performed in the study area by dividing 4 zones according to the level of overlap ratio and observation noise with based on UAV data. After we manually registered the MMS data to the UAV data, then compared the results which automatic registered using ICP method. In conclusion, the higher the overlap ratio and the lower the noise level, can bring the more accurate results in the automatic registration using ICP method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.73-80
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a medical image processing method for detection of periodontal disease. The proposed method is the method of an automatic image alignment and detection of minute changes, to overcome defects in the conventional subtraction radiography by digital image processing technique, that is necessary for getting subtraction image and ROI(Region of Interest) focused on a selection method using the structured features in target images. And the method services accuracy, consistency and objective information or data to results. In result, easily and visually we can identify minute differences in the affected parts whether they have problems or not, and using application system.