• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.145-152
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• 2006

Radiographic contrast medium may cause tissue injury by extravasation during intravenous automated injection during CT examination. A large - volume extravasation (140 mL) occurred in an adult during contrast-enhanced CT The patient had a swelling and injury on the dorsum right hand of intravenous catheter region. The extravasation injury site was determined by CT scanning. The extavasation compartment syndrome case was examined using four separate display techniques. These 3D MDCT findings might help to determine the best course of treatment for patient with contrast extravasation. 3D image reconstructions provide accurate views of high-resolution and soft-tissue imaging. This paper introduces extravasation with the radiography and 3D MDCT findings.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.1-9
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• 2014

Previous 2D-3D conversion methods to generate 3D stereo images from 2D sequence consist of labor-intensive procedures in their production pipelines. This paper presents an efficient 2D-3D conversion system based on scene structure reconstruction from image sequence. The proposed system reconstructs a scene space and produces 3D stereo images with texture re-projection. Experimental results show that the proposed method can generate precise 3D contents based on scene structure information. By using the proposed reconstruction tool, the stereographer can collaborate efficiently with workers in production pipeline for 3D contents production.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.301-305
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• 2013

This thesis intends to analyze tooth distortion by mandibular arch form by reproducing existing panorama image and reconstructed panorama image of Cone Beam CT data with the three-dimensional computer program. The diameter of tooth measured in Cone Beam CT's cross-section image and reconstructed panorama was synchronized without any big change from incisors to posteriors. But, panorama showed serious distortion as going to posteriors after showing a little distortion in incisors. The panorama reconstructed for patients' individual arch showed reduced distortion than panoramas used generally. In addition, panorama showed serious distortion from incisors to posteriors and it means that distortion is reduced in reconstructed panorama.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.21-28
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• 1996

The nature of complexity of medical images makes them difficult to segment using standard techniques. Therefore the usual approaches to segment images continue to predominantly involve manual interaction. But it tediously consumes a good deal of time and efforts of the experts. Hereby a nonmanual parameters estimation which can replace the manual interaction is needed to solve the problem of redundant manual works for an image segmentation. This paper attempts to estimate parameters for an image region segmentation using Scale Space Filtering. This attempt results in estimating the number of regions, their boundary and each representatives to be segmented 2-dimensionally and 3-dimensionally. Using this algorithm, we may diminish the problem of wasted time and efforts for finding prerequisite segmentation parameters, and lead the relatively reasonable result of region segmentation.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.18B no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2011

A 3D face shape derived from 2D images may be useful in many applications, such as face recognition, face synthesis and human computer interaction. To do this, we develop a fast 3D Active Appearance Model (3D-AAM) method using depth estimation. The training images include specific 3D face poses which are extremely different from one another. The landmark's depth information of landmarks is estimated from the training image sequence by using the approximated Jacobian matrix. It is added at the test phase to deal with the 3D pose variations of the input face. Our experimental results show that the proposed method can efficiently fit the face shape, including the variations of facial expressions and 3D pose variations, better than the typical AAM, and can estimate accurate 3D face shape from images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.634-637
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• 2002

오늘날 CT나 MR등을 통한 의학 영상 기술과 컴퓨터 성능의 향상으로 인체 내부 장기의 영상을 비교적 용이하게 얻을 수 있으며 얻어진 영상 정보는 컴퓨터로 수치와 되므로 데이터의 조작 및 가공이 용이하다. 그러나, 이 데이터는 2D 슬라이스들의 연속으로 표현되므로 이것을 보다 편리하게 가시화. 조작, 분석이 용이한 상태로 바꾸기 위해서는 3차원 구조로의 재구성이 필요하게 된다. 이것을 위하여 무엇보다도 먼저 CT나 MR을 통하여 얻어진 영상을 분석하여 특정 장기의 영상 부분를 다른 조직의 영상부분으로부터 분리(segmentation)할 필요가 있다. 이러한 Segmentation방법에는 여러가지가 있는데, 수작업의 결합 등으로 인해서 비효율적인 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이에 본 논문은 보다 효율적인 segmentation의 처리를 위하여 region-based 기법을 응용하여 새로운 segmentation 방법을 개발하였다. 그리하여, 본 논문이 제안한 알고리즘을 슬라이스 간격이 큰 2차원 복부 CT 영상에 적용시켜 간(liver)의 추출을 시도하였고 향상된 성능을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.235-238
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 집적 영상을 효율적으로 압축하는 방법을 제안한다. 렌즈 어레이를 이용하여 획득되는 집적 영상은 3차원 영상을 기록하고 표현하는 기술 중에 하나이다. 3차원 영상의 복원은 각 요소영상의 해상도에 의해 많은 영향을 받음에 따라 효율적인 집적영상 압축은 매우 중요하다고 할 수 있다. 제안된 방법은 3D 이산 코사인 변환(3D-DCT)를 기반으로 하고 있다. 3D-DCT는 렌즈 어레이로 촬영된 인접 영상들 간의 교차 상관도를 이용하여 영상간 중복성을 줄여 압축 효율을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법이다. 제안방법은 인접 영상들 간의 교차 상관도를 고려하여, 동일 위치의 픽셀들로 $8{\times}8$ DCT블록을 재구성하여 3D-DCT를 수행한다. 제안 방법은 기존의 JPEG이나 기존의 3D-DCT를 이용한 방법과 비교해 더 좋은 성능을 보여준다.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.12-16
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• 2012

Purpose : In conventional PET image reconstruction, iterative reconstruction methods such as OSEM (Ordered Subsets Expectation Maximization) have now generally replaced traditional analytic methods such as filtered back-projection. This includes improvements in components of the system model geometry, fully 3D scatter and low noise randoms estimates. SharpIR algorithm is to improve PET image contrast to noise by incorporating information about the PET detector response into the 3D iterative reconstruction algorithm. The aim of this study is evaluation of SharpIR reconstruction method in PET/CT. Materials and Methods: For the measurement of detector response for the spatial resolution, a capillary tube was filled with FDG and scanned at varying distances from the iso-center (5, 10, 15, 20 cm). To measure image quality for contrast recovery, the NEMA IEC body phantom (Data Spectrum Corporation, Hillsborough, NC) with diameters of 1, 13, 17 and 22 for simulating hot and 28 and 37 mm for simulating cold lesions. A solution of 5.4 kBq/mL of $^{18}F$-FDG in water was used as a radioactive background obtaining a lesion of background ratio of 4.0. Images were reconstructed with VUE point HD and VUE point HD using SharpIR reconstruction algorithm. For the clinical evaluation, a whole body FDG scan acquired and to demonstrate contrast recovery, ROIs were drawn on a metabolic hot spot and also on a uniform region of the liver. Images were reconstructed with function of varying iteration number (1~10). Results: The result of increases axial distance from iso-center, full width at half maximum (FWHM) is also increasing in VUE point HD reconstruction image. Even showed an increasing distances constant FWHM. VUE point HD with SharpIR than VUE point HD showed improves contrast recovery in phantom and clinical study. Conclusion: By incorporating more information about the detector system response, the SharpIR algorithm improves the accuracy of underlying model used in VUE point HD. SharpIR algorithm improve spatial resolution for a line source in air, and improves contrast recovery at equivalent noise levels in phantoms and clinical studies. Therefore, SharpIR algorithm can be applied as through a longitudinal study will be useful in clinical.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.537-543
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• 2004

In order to create three-dimensional model for human body, a method that reconstructs geometric models from contour lines on cross-section images is commonly used. We can get a set of contour lines by acquiring CT or MR images and segmenting anatomical structures. Previously proposed method divides entire contour line into simply matched regions and clefts. Since long processing time is required for reconstructing cleft regions, its performance might be degraded when manipulating complex data such as cross-sections for human body. In this paper, we propose a fast reconstruction method. It generates a triangle strip with single tiling operation for simple region that does not contain branch structures. If there exist branches in contour lines, it partitions the contour line into several sub-contours by considering the number of vertices and their spatial distribution. We implemented an automatic surface reconstruction system by using our method which reconstructs three-dimensional models for anatomical structures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.895-897
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• 2004

3차원 모델 재구성 방법 중 하나는 평행한 2차원 영상위의 외곽선들을 이용하여 본래의 기하정보를 복원하는 것이다. 표면 재구성 과정은 크게 대응관계 결정, 타일화, 분기처리로 이루어진다. 단순한 외곽선의 쌍인 경우에는 간단한 방법으로 기하정보를 생성할 수 있으나, 하나의 외곽선이 인접 슬라이스의 여러 외곽선으로 분기되는 경우는 처리가 쉽지 않다. 본 논문에서는 분기가 있는 복잡한 외곽선의 쌍으로부터 본래의 형상을 재구성하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 먼저 외곽선의 각 정점에 대응하는 인접 외곽선의 최단거리 정점들을 찾아서 기본영역을 타일화 하고 남은 부분(클레프트)들은 대응하는 잔여 정점들의 중점을 찾아 타일화 한다. 이렇게 함으로써 여러 개로 분기된 외곽선을 본래의 형상으로 재구성 할 수 있으며 이를 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.