• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.11-16
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• 2023

In preclinical positron emisson tomography(PET), spatial resolution degradation occurs outside the field of view(FOV). To solve this problem, a depth of interaction(DOI) detector was developed that measures the position where gamma rays and the scintillator interact. There are a method in which a scintillation pixel array is composed of multiple layers, a method in which photosensors are arranged at both ends of a single layer, a method in which a scintillation pixel array is constituted in several layers and a photosensor is arranged in each layer. In this study, a new type of DOI detector was designed by analyzing the characteristics of the previously developed detectors. In the two-layer detector, different sizes of scintillation pixels were used for each layer, and the array size was configured differently. When configured in this form, the positions of the scintillation pixels for each layer are arranged to be shifted from each other, so that they are imaged at different positions in a flood image. DETECT2000 simulation was performed to confirm the possibility of measuring the depth of interaction of the designed detector. A flood image was reconstructed from a light signal acquired by a gamma-ray event generated at the center of each scintillation pixel. As a result, it was confirmed that all scintillation pixels for each layer were separated from the reconstructed flood image and imaged to measure the interaction depth. When this detector is applied to preclinical PET, it is considered that excellent images can be obtained by improving spatial resolution.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.61-69
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• 1997

A simple and relatively new experimental method is proposed to estimate the plane stress fracture toughness by using compact tension (CT) specimen. The anti-buckling plates (fabricated to prevent the buckling caused by the 45 plastic yielding around crack tip under the plane stress condition) help to determine the relatively accurate plane stress fracture toughness of two stainless steels (SS304 and SS316). The fatigue crack propagation behavior of two stainless steels under two different loading conditions such as 10Hz and 5Hz frequency fatigue loadings was investigated by using image analysis technique (IAT) which renders several technical advantages over various conventional measuring methods. It was found that the IAT could be used to estimate fatigue crack lengths more effectively. Furthermore, it was suggested that we might control the measuring time interval for fatigue crack propagation by nearly automatically controlled technical process with the help of IAT.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.67-70
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• 2006

디스플레이 장치와 영상 기술의 발전으로 3D 입체 영상에 대한 관심과 기술적 접근이 어느 때 보다 활발하다. 입체 영상의 경우 통상 복수의 평면 영상을 이용하여 합성하게 되는데 이 과정에서 각 영상의 객관적 화질을 서로 달리 함으로써 주관적 화질을 향상시킬 수 있다는 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 그러나 객관적 화질을 지나치게 달리 하거나 전반적으로 낮은 화질의 영상에서는 경계선이 제대로 재현되지 않아 입체감을 떨어뜨리는 문제가 발생한다. 또한 기존의 연구는 스테레오 영상에 한해서만 위의 가설을 검증하였으나 최근의 입체 영상에 관한 연구는 스테레오 영상뿐만 아니라 다시점 영상에서도 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 스테레오 영상과 9시점 영상에서의 비대칭 영상 부호화가 주관적 화질에 미치는 영향을 검증하고 구체적으로 어느 정도의 객관적 화질 차이를 유지하는 것이 비대칭 부호화에서 가장 효율적인지를 밝힌다. 또한 기존의 비대칭 영상 부호화와 비교하여 주관적 화질을 개선할 수 있는 더욱 효율적인 알고리듬을 제안한다. 제안되는 알고리듬은 경계선의 강도를 기준으로 매크로블록의 양자화 파라미터를 달리 하여 영상의 경계선을 보호하는 방법으로써 기존의 비대칭 영상 부호화보다 더욱 향상된 주관적 화질을 얻을 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.417-419
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• 2011

근래 다양한 형태의 멀티미디어 콘텐츠가 광범위하게 소비됨에 따라 단방향의 평면적 콘텐츠가 제공하는 시점의 한계에서 벗어나 사용자에게 보다 다양한 시점의 영상을 제공함으로써 사용자가 원하는 시점을 선택할 수 있는 실감형 콘텐츠에 대한 욕구가 증가하고 있다. 이러한 실감형 콘텐츠 중 하나인 파노라마 영상은 다수의 카메라를 통해 획득된 영상들을 하나의 영상으로 이어 붙여 넓은 시야의 영상을 제공함으로써 증대된 현장감과 몰입감을 제공하며 사용자 시점의 자유도를 증가시킬 수 있다. 본 고에서는 다수 영상의 스티칭 시 발생하는 고스팅 영향(ghosting effect)를 최소화 하기 위한 칼럼 시차 최소화 (Column Disparity Minimaization)기반의 멀티밴드 블랜딩(Multiband blending)을 소개 하고자 한다.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.22-30
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• 2003

Purpose : The efficacy of magnetic resonance imaging for evaluating coronary artery disease has been reported. In this study, we evaluated the usefulness of breath-hold segmented K-space cine MR imaging for evaluating the patency of coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG). Materials and Method s : Thirty eight patients with a total of 92 CABGs (36 internal thoracic arteries and 56 saphenous vein grafts) were evaluated using segmented K-space cardiac-gated fast gradient echo sequence (2D-FASTCARD) MR imaging. MR magnitude images were evaluated from the hard copies by two independent observers. A graft was defined as patent if it was seen as a bright small round area on at least two consecutive images throughout the cardiac cycle at a position consistent with the expected location for that graft. Results : MR images were obtained successfully for 23 patients (61%). The sagittal planes were most helpful in visualizing the cross-section of sapheneous vein bypass graft to left circumflex artery branch, whereas the transverse planes were used for identification of internal mammary artery grafts to left anterior descending coronary artery or its branch and identification of saphenous vein grafts to right coronary artery. Forty five grafts were visible using this MR technique, while the grafts were not visible on seven saphenous vein grafts and two internal mammary artery grafts. In two patients showing symptoms of myocardial ischemia, one or two bypass grafts were not visible. Imaging, perpendicular plane to a CABG was important to visualize the flow inside the CABG with maximum sensitivity. Conclusion : Evaluation of patency of the bypass graft was clinically feasible by 2D-FASTCARD MR imaging, whereas any invisible bypass grafts should be further studied by contrast-enhanced MR angiography or by conventional angiography for confirmation of abnormalities.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.267-269
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• 2010

3D 모니터의 공급으로 IT영역 및 의료영상 분야 에서도 3D 영상에 관한 산업 발달이 화두가 되고 있다. 의료영상은 CT, MRI 영상의 정확한 판독이 필요하기 때에 2D 의료영상보다 구체적인 3D 정보를 얻을 수 있는 3D 입체영상에 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 3D 의료 촬영기계가 아닌 기존의 2D 의료 평면 영상 한 장만을 이용한 3D 입체영상을 제작하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험 영상으로 CT의 2D 의료영상을 사용한다. 장기의 영역 분할을 한후, 각 장기 성분을 분석한다. 분리 한 장기들은 명암값에 의해 구분 되며, 이를 바탕으로 영상의 깊이 정보를 추출한다. 추출한 정보로 깊이맵을 작성한다. 작성된 깊이 맵과 기본 2D 의료영상과 합성, 깊이를 할당하여 3D영상을 구현한다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.13 no.3 s.33
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• pp.87-94
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• 2005

3D positional information of lane can be automatically calculated tv combining GPS data, IMU data if coordinates of lane centers are given. The Road Safety Survey and Analysis Vehicle(RoSSAV) is currently under development to analyze three dimensional safety and stability of roads. RoSSAV has GPS and IMU sensors to get positional information of the vehicle and two road-facing CCD cameras for extraction of lane coordinates. In this paper, we develop technology that automatically detects centers of lanes from the road-facing cameras of RoSSAV. The proposed algorithm defines line-support regions by grouping pixels with similar edge orientation and magnitude together and extracts a line from each line support region by planar fitting. Then if extracted lines and the region in-between satisfy the criteria of brightness and width, we decide this region as lane. The proposed algorithm was more precise and stable than the previously proposed algorithm based on brightness threshold method. Experiments with real road scenes confirmed that lane was effectively extracted by the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.123-130
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• 2014

In this study, a vision-based displacement measurement system is developed to accurately measure the displacement of a structure with locating the camera at arbitrary position. The previous vision-based system brings error when the optical axis of a camera has an angle with the measured structure, which limits the applicability at large structures. The developed system measures displacement by processing the images of a target plate that is attached on the measured position of a structure. To measure displacement regardless of the angle between the optical axis of the camera and the target plate, planar homography is employed to match two planes in image and world coordinate systems. To validate the performance of the present system, a laboratory test is carried out using a small 2-story shear building model. The result shows that the present system measures accurate displacement of the structure even with a camera significantly angled with the target plate.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2009

It is very difficult to restore the images degraded by motion blur and additive noise. In conventional methods, regularization usually applies to all the images without considering local characteristics of the images. As a result, ringing artifacts appear in the edge regions and noise amplification is in the flat regions, as well. To solve these problems, we propose an adaptive iterative regularization method, using the way of regularization operator considering edge directions. In addition, we suggest an adaptive regularization parameter and an relaxation parameter. In conclusion, We have verified that the new method shows the suppression of the noise amplification in the flat regions, also does less ringing artifacts in the edge regions. Furthermore, it offers better images and improves the quality of ISNR, comparing with those of conventional methods.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.279-284
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• 2010

The plane curve approach which was proposed by Boukharouba et. al. is a multi-threshold selection method through searching peak-valley based on histogram cumulative distribution function. However the method is required to select parameters to compose plane curve, and the shape of plane curve is affected according to parameters. Therefore detection of peak-valley is effected by parameters. In this paper, we propose an entropy maximizing-based method to select optimal plane curve parameters, and propose a multi-thresholding method based on the selected parameters. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by multi-thresholding experiments on various images and comparison with other conventional thresholding methods based on histogram.