• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.14A no.2
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• pp.77-84
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• 2007

The intima media thickness(IMT) of the carotid artery from B mode ultrasound images has recently been proposed as the most useful index of individual atherosclerosis and can be used to predict major cardiovascular events. Ultrasonic measurements of the IMT are conventionally obtained by manually tracing interfaces between tissue layers. The drawbacks of this method are the inter and intra observer variability and its inefficiency. In this paper, we present a multiresolution snake method combined with the dynamic programming, which overcomes the various noises and sensitivity to initialization of conventional snake. First, an image pyramid is constructed using the Gaussian pyramid that maintains global edge information with smoothing in the images, and then the boundaries are automatically detected in the lowest resolution level by minimizing a cost function based on dynamic programming. The cost function includes cost terms which are representing image features and geometrical continuity of the vessel interfaces. Since the detected boundaries are selected as initial contour of the snake for the next level, this automated approach solves the problem of the initialization. Moreover, the proposed snake improves the problem of converging th the local minima by defining the external energy based on multiple image features. In this paper, our method has been validated by computing the correlation between manual and automatic measurements. This automated detection method has obtained more accurate and reproducible results than conventional edge detection by considering multiple image features.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.111-114
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• 2001

게이트 심근 SPECT 영상은 좌심실 구혈률(EF), 확장기말 부피(end-diastolic volume), 수축기말(end-systolic volume)부피 등의 지표로 심근의 기능을 평가하는데 널리 이용된다. 이러한 지표들을 구하기 위해서는 심근 안팎의 경계선을 추출해야 한다. 본 연구는 좌심실의 SPECT short-axis 영상에서 전처리 과정을 거친 영상을 Hough Transform을 이용하여 초기점 설정한 후 심실 내외벽의 경계선을 추출하기 위해 Williams 가 제안한 Active Contour Model(snakes)을 이용하여 심근의 경계선을 자동으로 추출하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.21-29
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a method of detecting the boundary of the intima-media complex for automated measurement based on dynamic programming from carotid artery B-mode ultrasound images and then show the experimental results. We apply the dynamic programming for determining the optimal locations that a cost function is minimized. The cost function includes cost terms which are representing image features such as intensity, intensity gradient and geometrical continuity of the vessel interfaces. Moreover, we improve the boundary continuity by applying the B-spline to smooth the rough boundary due to noise such as speckle, dropout and weak edges. The proposed method has obtained more accurate reproducible results than conventional edge-detection by considering multiple image features and ensures efficient automated measurement by solving the problems of the inter- and intra-observer variability and its inefficiency due to manual measurement.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.233-239
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• 2007

현행 지적도에는 건물 위치가 표시되지 않아 지적도 활용 시 건물 위치 식별이 어렵고, 지적현황측량에 따른 비용과 시간의 소요와 불편을 격고 있으며, 지상 건물의 경계 침범으로 인한 분쟁과 소송이 일어나고 있다. 건축물 경계 추출에 관한 선행연구에서 수치정사사진과 LiDAR를 이용한 건물 경계를 추출은 원칙적으로 지적측량의 원리와 상이한 기준으로 실제 지상의 외벽 경계선이 아닌 건축물의 옥상층 경계선을 추출하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 건물등록을 위해 시도해 보지 않았던 건축도면을 이용하여, 기존연구에서 고려되지 못한 지붕선이나 처마선이 아닌 실제 지적측량에서 기준이 되는 외벽의 경계선을 등록하기 위해 건축도면을 활용하였으며, 등록하는 과정에서 ArcGIS 엔진을 이용하여 개발한 자동 등록 방법을 사용하였다. 지적도 필지 경계선과 건축도면의 필지 경계선을 기준으로 등록한 결과 지적현황측량 성과와 수치지역에서 연결오차로 RMSE가 0.10m, 도해지역에서 0.16m로 나타났다. 따라서 건축도면을 이용하여 지적도에 건축물의 경계를 등록함으로써 지상측량을 보완할 수 있으며, 3차원 지적구축을 위한 기반을 조성하고, 지적재조사사업에서 시간과 경비를 획기적으로 절감할 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.67-70
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 뉴스 비디오 자막의 구조적 문자 특성을 이용한 자동 자막추출방법을 기술하였다. 기존의 방법들은 경계 추출이나 이진화 과정 후에 화소값의 변화 profile에 나타나는 문자의 굵기, 간격 등의 문자 특징을 이용하는데 반해 본 논문에서 제안한 방식은 뉴스 비디오 자막에서 문자와 배경을 구분하는 테두리선을 배경과 문자를 구분하는 경계로 하여, 적절한 이진화 과정과 영역확장 기법을 이용하여 문자를 추출하였다. 제안한 방법은 문자에 대하 사전지식이 없어도 되며, 사용한 영역확장 기법은 기존의 방법에서의 경계 추출기법보다 간단하면서도 효과적인 문자추출 결과를 나타낸다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.865-871
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a method of extracting prostate region using morphological characteristics of ultra-sonic image of prostate. In the first step of the proposed method, the edge area of the prostate image is extracted. The histogram of ultra-sonic image is used to extract base objects to detect the upper edge of prostate region by altering the contrast of the image, then, the lower edges of the extracted base objects are connected by using monotone cubic spline interpolation to extract the upper edge. Step 2, Otsu's binarization is applied to the region under the extracted upper edge of the prostate ultra-sonic image to extract the lower edge of prostate. In the last step, the upper and the lower edges are connected to extract prostate region and by comparing the extracted region of prostate with the one measured manually, the result showed that the morphological characteristics of prostate in ultrasonic image can be utilized to extract the prostate region.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.603-611
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• 2016

Generally, the doctors manually delineated the prostate boundary seeing the image by their eyes, but the manual method not only needed quite much time but also had different boundaries depending on doctors. To reduce the effort like them the automatic delineating methods are needed, but detecting the boundary is hard to do since there are lots of uncertain textures or speckle noises. There have been studied in SVM, SIFT, Gabor texture filter, snake-like contour, and average-shape model methods. Besides, there were lots of studies about 2 and 3 dimension images and CT and MRI. But no studies have been developed superior to human experts and they need additional studies. For this, this paper proposes a method that delineates the boundary predicting its texture features and its average distribution on the prostate image. As result, we got the similar boundary as the method of human experts.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06c
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• pp.458-462
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• 2010

본 논문은 X-선 혈관조영영상에서 기울기 정보 및 최대 빈도수를 이용한 카테터 자동 분할 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 세 단계로 이루어진다. 첫째, 분할하고자 하는 카테터 관심영역을 설정하고, 영상의 대조대비를 높이기 위한 밝기값 스트레칭을 수행한다. 둘째, 카테터 후보 경계점을 추출하기 위하여 카테터 방향을 고려한 경계 강조 마스크를 영상에 적용한다. 셋째, 카테터 후보 경계점에서 기울기가 크고 최대 빈도수 직경을 갖는 카테터 경계점을 추출하고 이들을 선형 보간하여 최종 카테터 경계를 분할한다. 제안 방법의 평가를 위하여 육안 평가 및 전문가가 수동 분할한 결과와 본 제안방법을 적용하여 얻은 중복 영역 비율과 평균 거리 차이를 측정한 정확성 평가를 수행하였고, 수행시간을 측정하였다. 실험결과 중복 영역 비율은 93.9%${\pm}$2.7%, 평균 거리 차이는 0.116-픽셀, 수행시간은 평균 0.011초로 측정되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.101-109
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• 2012

In many diagnostic and treatment procedures for prostate disease accurate detection of prostate boundaries in transrectal ultrasound(TRUS) images is required. This is a challenging and difficult task due to weak prostate boundaries, speckle noise and the short range of gray levels. In this paper a method for automatic prostate segmentation inTRUS images using support vectors and snake-like contour is presented. This method involves preprocessing, extracting Gabor feature, training, and prostate segmentation. Gabor filter bank for extracting the texture features has been implemented. A support vector machine(SVM) for training step has been used to get each feature of prostate and nonprostate. The boundary of prostate is extracted by the snake-like contour algorithm. The results showed that this new algorithm extracted the prostate boundary with less than 9.3% relative to boundary provided manually by experts.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.421-429
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• 1999

It is estimated that, in the twenty-first century, 70％ of global citizens will live in urban areas. This accelerated urbanization will require a greater need for the building DEM and orthoimagery along with Geographic Information System for urban management. The building DEM requires the detection of outlines showing building shapes. To do this, automatic and semiautomatic building extractions are usually used. However, in cases where automatic extraction is performed directly from the aerial images, accurate building outline extraction is very difficult because of shadow, roof color, and neighboring trees making it hard to discern building roofs. To overcome this problem semiautomatic building extraction was suggested in this paper. When a roof texture was homogeneous, building outline detection was performed by mouse-clicking on a part of the roof. To construct the building outlines when the texture was not homogeneous, a computer program was developed to search out corner points by clicking spots near corner points. The building DEM was generated by taking into account building outlines and heights calculated by image matching.