• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.125-132
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• 2006

SPECT camera와 PET scanner 그리고 PET/CT 장치는 감마선을 검출하여 얻어진 자료(data)를 정보화 한다. 특히 PET/CT 장치는 PET영상에서 나타나는 해부학적 불선예함을 CT로 보완하여 선예한 해부학적 구조의 영상 묘출능력이 뛰어나 양질의 진단정보를 제공하고 있게 되었다. 신속 정확한 자료의 획득과 정보화를 위하여 우선적으로 검출기(detector)에서의 효율적인 감마선검출은 매우 예민하고 중요한 역할 중의 하나이다. 섬광체(scintillator)의 개발과 함께 data 처리를 위한 software의 발전은 영상재구성처리시간의 단축은 물론 영상의 질적인 향상을 초래하였다. PET scanner에서는 SPECT camera의 $100{\sim}200\;keV$와는 달리 511 keV의 고에너지 감마선을 검출한다. 섬광체 GSO, LSO는 PET scanner의 섬광체로 비교적 많이 이용되고 있다. 고에너지 감마선에너지를 빛으로 전환하여 여러 단계를 거쳐 정보화하는 과정은 결과적으로 고화질의 영상을 비롯한 정확하고 신속한 진단정보획득에 목적을 두고 있다. 화질의 질적향상은 획득한 정보량에 대한 영상의 재구성 방법과 기술에 따라 영향을 받는다. 본 연구는 PET/CT 장치에서 특히 PET부분에서 섬광체(scintillator)의 특성과 감마선의 검출과정에서부터 영상 재구성단계까지 문헌적 고찰을 통하여 요약 설명하였다.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.192-201
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 PET/CT 시스템에서 CT 영상을 이용한 감쇠 보정 시 조영제가 PET 영상에 미치는 영향을 관찰하기 위해 팬텀실험과 모의실험을 수행하였다. 다양한 농도로 희석한 조영제를 채운 플라스틱 병을 스티로폼을 이용하여 전신 팬텀 내에 고정시킨 후 투과 영상을 획득하였다 모의실험을 위해 인체 기관 중간을 가진 수학적 방출 맵과 투과 맵을 각각 생성하였다. 조영제의 비균일 증강, 조영제의 다양한 농도 및 분포 크기, 잡음 정도, 영상의 해상도, 재구성 알고리듬, 조영제의 저-감쇠, 그리고 각각 다른 시간상에 대한 조영제의 분포의 차이와 같은 다양한 인자들에 대하여 평가하였다. 팬텀실험으로부터 CT의 Hounsfield 값이 조영제의 농도 및 전압 값에 의존함을 확인할 수 있었다. 모의실험으로부터 조영제가 감쇠 보정한 PET 영상에서 인공산물을 생성하고 영상의 질을 떨어뜨리는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. 조영제의 영향은 조영제의 농도 및 분포 크기, 잡음 정도, 영상의 해상도 등에 의해 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구 결과들은 임상적 PET/CT 영상에서 조영제로 인해 발생할 수 있는 잠재적 문제를 충분히 이해하고 이를 고려해야 함을 보여 주었다.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.55-64
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• 2007

CT에서 커널에 따른 노이즈, 공간분해능 및 MTF를 측정하고 임상에 적용하여 영상의 질을 평가하였다. 커널은 B30 (body medium smooth), H30 (head medium smooth), S80 (special), U95 (ultra sharp)를 이용하여 측정하였다. 커널에 따른 결과에서 노이즈는 B30 (7.6 HU), U95 (38.2 HU)이었고, 공간분해능은 H30, B30 커널이 0.8 mm, U95 커널은 0.6 mm로 33.3% 영상의 질이 향상되었다. MTF (50%, 10%, 2%)에서 H30 커널은 3.25 5.68, 7.45 Ip/cm, B30 커널은 3.84, 6.25, 7.72 Ip/cm, S80 커널에서는 4.69, 9.49, 12.34 Ip/cm, U95 커널은 14.19, 20.31, 24.67 Ip/cm이었다. 커널 종류별로 영상의 임상 적용에서 두부는 H30 커널, 복부는 B30 커널, 측두골 및 폐에서는 U95 커널이 임상적 평가가 높았다. 임상에서 진단에 적용하기 위해서는 검사 부위에 맞는 커널을 선택하여 검사하여야 한다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.341-346
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• 2004

Recent livestock people concern not only increase of production, but also superior quality of animal-breeding environment. So far, the optimization of the breeding and air environment has been focused on the production increase. In the very near future, the optimization will be emphasized on the environment for the animal welfare and health. Especially, cattle farming demands the precision livestock farming and special attention has to be given to the management of feeding, animal health and fertility. The management of individual animal is the first step for precision livestock farming and animal welfare, and recognizing each individual is important for that. Though electronic identification of a cattle such as RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) has many advantages, RFID implementations practically involve several problems such as the reading speed and distance. In that sense, computer vision might be more effective than RFID for the identification of an individual animal. The researches on the identification of cattle via image processing were mostly performed with the cows having black-white patterns of the Holstein. But, the native Korean and Japanese cattle do not have any definite pattern on the body. The purpose of this research is to identify the Japanese black cattle that does not have a body pattern using computer vision technology and neural network algorithm. Twelve heads of Japanese black cattle have been tested to verify the proposed scheme. The values of input parameters were specified and then computed using the face images of cattle. The images of cattle faces were trained using associate neural network algorithm, and the algorithm was verified by the face images that were transformed using brightness, distortion, and noise factors. As a result, there was difference due to transform ratio of the brightness, distortion, and noise. And, the proposed algorithm could identify 100% in the range from -3 to +3 degrees of the brightness, from -2 to +4 degrees of the distortion, and from 0% to 60% of the noise transformed images. It is concluded that our system can not be applied in real time recognition of the moving cows, but can be used for the cattle being at a standstill.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1857-1862
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• 2016

Human activity recognition using depth information is an emerging and challenging technology in computer vision due to its considerable attention by many practical applications such as smart home/office system, personal health care and 3D video games. This paper presents a novel framework of 3D human body detection, tracking and recognition from depth video sequences using spatiotemporal features and modified HMM. To detect human silhouette, raw depth data is examined to extract human silhouette by considering spatial continuity and constraints of human motion information. While, frame differentiation is used to track human movements. Features extraction mechanism consists of spatial depth shape features and temporal joints features are used to improve classification performance. Both of these features are fused together to recognize different activities using the modified hidden Markov model (M-HMM). The proposed approach is evaluated on two challenging depth video datasets. Moreover, our system has significant abilities to handle subject's body parts rotation and body parts missing which provide major contributions in human activity recognition.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.691-703
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• 2015

Indeterminacy maintains that the simultaneous measurement of object location and speed is theoretically impossible. This study present indeterminacy as a theoretic tool to interpret a variety of expression characteristics that seem disorderly in recent fashion illustrations; in addition, it analyzes the characteristics and meaning of indeterminacy as expressed in fashion illustrations. This study reviews concepts and related theories on indeterminacy to examine characteristics of indeterminacy expressed in the arts and fashion; subsequently, indeterminacy characteristics found in fashion illustrations are analyzed. In expressing the fashion figure, indeterminacy finds expression in a distorted figure transformations that include a hybridized combination of heterogeneous forms that dismantle and reconstruct the human body. The hybridized body of combined machines, animals and plants indicates an indeterminate body endlessly transforming itself. Indeterminate space expression finds expression in space expression by projection with the overlapping and juxtaposition of irrelevant constituent elements as well as a space expression from the insertion of unexpected images. An unclarified inconclusive open space provides space with fluidity, causes space expansion and conveys inconclusive meaning. Indeterminate expressions found in fashion illustrations reveal the ambiguity and complexity of a post-modern society with polysemous aesthetic values and the expanded visual concepts of fashion illustrations.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.193-198
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• 1993

Ultrasonography observations were made of the kidneys of 21 dogs. Ultrasonography images obtained in transverse and longitudinal planes. A 3.5-MHz linear transducer was used. All examinations were peformed on dogs in dorsal recumbency under anesthesia. The right kidney was 3.2~3.8cm long, 1.7~3.5 cm wide and 1.0～1.9cm deep in 0～5 of body weight group, 3.6~4.6cm long, 2.4～3.6cm wide and 1.4～2.1cm deep in 5～10 of body weight group, and 4.6～6.4cm long, 3.3～4.2cm wide and 2.0~2.0cm deep in 10～15kg of body weight group(p< 0.01). Diameter of the parenchyma of the right kidney ranged between 0.4～0.9cm in 0～5kg group, 0.6～1.0cm in 5～l0kg group and 0.9-1.1cm in 10~15kg group(p<0.01). Diameter of the renal sinus of the right kidney ranged between 0.3～0.5cm in 0～5kg group, 0.4～0.7cm in 5～10kg group and 0.5～0.9cm in 10~ 15kg group(p< 0.01). Similar ultrasonic measurements were obtained for the left kidney. It was concluded that the ultrasonographic findings described in this study can be used as references for diagnosis of morphologic changes in e canine kidney.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.504-513
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• 2013

This study evaluates the difference of visual effect according to pant style and geometric pattern. The researcher made 28 stimuli-combination of four pant Stiles (classic, baggy, skinny, and bell-bottom) and seven geometric pattern (large vertical stripe, small vertical stripe, large horizontal stripe, small horizontal stripe, large check, small check, and hound's tooth check). The test involved 96 female college students. The stimuli were made with the i-Designer computer program. The panels tested the computer screen images of all manikins wearing pants. A 7-point scale was used to evaluate each image. For the data analysis, ANOVA and Duncan-test were applied along with an SPSS program. The results of this study are as follows. Three factors (lower-body compensation, abdomen highlight, and length compensation) influenced the visual effect pant styles and geometric patterns. The skinny style and large vertical stripe evaluated positively in elongated height and leg length and a slimmer overall body. It was shown that the vertical stripe pattern was evaluated as more positive than the horizontal stripe pattern in the visual effect; particularly, the results showed distinct aspects in the classic pants style. The mutual influence of the visual effect (according to pants style and geometric pattern) were indicated as two factors of lower-body compensation and length compensation. A more positive visual effects resulted in a higher mutual influence on pant style and geometric pattern.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제28권11호
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• pp.1536-1543
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• 2004

Garment is made by a 2D pattern and should be fitted to a human body which has 3D characteristics. Therefore, to design a pattern more effectively, the use of 3D information of a human body and the investigation of relationship between the 3D garment and 2D pattern are necessary. In this work, ruled surface method was used to reflect the 3D information of a human body for a pattern design. The images of the brassiere line on the woman's dress form were captured by phase-shifting projection moire system and the 3D information on the design line was obtained. 2D patterns on the various parts of the brassiere were developed directly from the 3D data by the ruled surface method. In addition, design line, the area and the amount of dart were quantified. And then we verify the appropriateness of the ruled surface method to the 2D pattern development by measuring the distribution of the space between women's figure and segmented clothing item. It was found that the ruled surface method is useful to transform the 3D design line to the 2D pattern, if we followed the steps suggested in this paper.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.193-198
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• 2004

PET/CT combines the functional information from a positron emission tomography (PET) exam with the anatomical information from a computed tomography (CT) exam into one single exam. A CT scan uses a combination of x-rays and computers to give the radiologist a non-invasive way to see inside your body. One advantage of CT is its ability to rapidly acquire two-dimensional pictures of your anatomy. Using a computer these 2-D images can be presented in 3-D for in-depth clinical evaluation. A PET scan detects changes in the cellular function - how your cells are utilizing nutrients like sugar and oxygen. Since these functional changes take place before physical changes occur, PET can provide information that enables your physician to make an early diagnosis. The PET exam pinpoints metabolic activity in cells and the CT exam provides an anatomical reference. When these two scans are fused together, your physician can view metabolic changes in the proper anatomical context of your body. PET/CT offers significant advantages including more accurate localization of functional abnormalities, and the distinction of pathological from normal physiological uptake, and improvements in monitoring treatment. A PET/CT scan allows physicians to measure the body's abnormal molecular cell activity to detect cancer (such as breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, lymphoma, melanoma and other skin cancers), brain disorders (such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and epilepsy), and heart disease (such as coronary artery disease).