• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.487-496
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• 2001

In this study, a galvanic stimulator providing bipolar mode controlled by a PIC(peripheral interface controller) was constructed to evaluate vestibular function The maximum load and maximum current intensity of the constant current source were 3$k\Omega$ and 5mA. respectively. and it could Produce DC, sine wavers. or Pulse waves. Eve movements of 20 normal subjects by galvanic stimulation were analyzed using a commercial videooculogragh. During stimulating with DC for 30 sec. we recorded the response of eye movement with current intensity of 0.75. 1 2, and 3 mA. Nystagmus occurred to all the subjects when the galvanic stimulus intensity was larger than 2 mA. Average SPV(slow Phase eye movement velocity) and the number of nystagmus increased from 7.1 to 4.8 deg/sec and from 17 to 48, respectively, when the stimulus current increased from 0.75 to 3 mA. All the fast eye movement of the nystagmus were the direction of the negative electrode. The asymmetry which means the difference between right- and left-eye movements decreased when the stimulus intensity increased. It is expected that this study would be useful in evaluating vestibular function and in studying basic Physiology mechanism of vestibular ocular reflex by galvanic stimulus .

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.858-865
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• 2011

In order to allow the user to efficiently browse, select, and retrieve a desired video part without having to deal directly with GBytes of compressed data, classification of shot motion characteristic has to be carried out as a preparation for such user interaction. The organization of video information for video database requires segmentation of a video into its constituent shots and their subsequent characterization in terms of content and camera movement in shot. In order to classify shot motion, it is a conventional way to use element of motion vector. However, there is a limit to estimate global camera motion because the way that uses motion vectors only represents local movement. For shot classification in terms of motion information, we propose a new scheme consisting of partial decoding of INTRA pictures and comparing the x, y displacement vector curve between the decoded I-frame and next P-frame in compressed video data.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.9C
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• pp.697-703
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• 2008

The H.264/AVC video coding standard provides higher coding efnciency compared to the conventional MPEG-2 standard. Since a lot of videos have been encoded using MPEG-2, the format conversion from MPEG-2 to H.264 is essential. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for the conversion of DCT coefficients to H.264/AVC transform coefficients. This conversion is essential, since $8{\times}8$ DCT and $4{\times}4$ integer transform are used in MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, respectively. The mathematical analysis and computer simulation show that the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm is reduced compared to the conventional algorithm, while the loss caused by the conversion is negligible.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.38-42
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• 2001

Dark band artifacts are often observed in angiograms of arteries obtained by 2D time-of-flight (TOF) angiography with saturation of veins by presaturation RF pulses. At some arteries the arterial blood velocity varies in a triphasic pattern during a cardiac cycle. The arterial blood, that is saturated by presaturation RF pulses in the saturation band, can flow back into the imaging slice during the retrograde flow phase of the triphasic variation. When such saturated retrograde flow occurs during the acquisition of the central part of the K space, a signal void can result in base images and consequently dark band artifacts can appear in angiograms. This phenomenon is experimentally demonstrated by varying the gap between the imaging slice and the saturation band. Furthermore, a new pulse sequence is proposed to eliminate the dark band artifacts by changing the profile of the saturation band front a rectangle to a ramp.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.153-158
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• 1999

As a basic research for the development of the automatic grading and sorting system for dried oak mushrooms, the device to acquire both cap and gill side images of mushroom has been developed and neural network based side recognition and quality grading has been proposed via inputting both side images. 20 quality grades have been selected considering the requirement of grade classifications imposed by the mushroom company. Developed DC motor driven‘V’type reversing device for the image acquisition of both side images of mushroom showed more than 95% success. Most error was caused by very small size mushrooms with a radius of around 1cm. However, it required a further research to reduce the reversing time. Grading and side recognition were performed via inputting normalized size factors and average gray levels of $8{\times}8$ grids converted from the raw images of both surfaces to the multi-layer back propagation(BP) network. Accuracy of the grading showed about 88.5% and the total grading time including reversing operation was around 2 seconds.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.181-187
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• 2011

In this thesis, digital in-line holographic microscopy has been implemented with enhanced phase shifting technique. It was demonstrated that the zero-order diffraction noise and the twin image can be eliminated by phase-shifting interferometry very effectively. Also the experimental and numerical reconstruction has been incorporated into one set-up operating in real time. Experimental results and the analysis of the phase map indicate that the proposed system can be very useful for the measurement of microscopic objects and 3-D microscopy.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.146-150
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• 2010

In this paper we have applied phase conjugated holographyto DHM (digital holography microscopy) to remove phase aberration and noise. Generally,digital holographyincludes the phase information of the object, phase aberration terms introduced by the measurement system and noise terms (DC term and twin images). These aberrations and noise terms decrease the quality of the reconstructed phase image. We could obtain a conjugated hologram which includes only phase information of object. Experimentally we show that distortion of image and aberration of phase in a measurement system are removed using the conjugation hologram.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.764-769
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• 2003

The paper introduces a development result for displacement measurement system of multiple moving objects based on image processing technique. The image processing method adopts inertia moment theory for obtaining the centroid of the targets and basic processing algorithms of gray, binary, closing, labeling and etc. To get precise displacement measurement in spite of multiple moving targets, a CCD camera with zoom is used and the position of camera is changed by a pan/tilt system. The fiducial marks on the fixed positions are used as the sensing points for the image processing to recognize the position errors in directions of X -Y coordinates. The precise alignment device is pan /tilt of X - Y type and the pan/tilt is controlled by DC servomotors which are driven by 80c196kc microprocessor based controller. The centers of the fiducial marks are obtained by a inertia moment method. By applying the developed precise position control system for multiple targets, the displacement of multiple moving targets are detected automatically and are stored in the database system in a real time. By using database system and internet, displacement data can be confirmed at a great distance and analyzed. The developed system shows the effectiveness such that it realizes the precision about 0.12mm in the position control of X -Y coordinates.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.295-300
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• 2012

Matured dendritic cells (DCs) begin migration with their release from the bone marrow (BM) into the blood and subsequent traffic into peripheral lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues. Throughout this long movement, migrating DCs must apply specialized skills to reach their target destination. Non-invasive in vivo cell-tracking techniques are necessary to advance immune cell-based therapies. In this study, we used a DiD cell-tracking solution for in vivo dendritic cell tracking in naive mice. We tracked DiD (non-invasive fluorescence dye)-labeled mature dendritic cells using the Near Infrared (NIR) imaging system in normal mice. We examined the immunophenotype of DiD-labeled cells compared with non-labelled mature DCs, and obtained time-serial images of NIR-DC trafficking after mouse footpad injection. In conclusion, we confirmed that DiD-labeled DCs migrated into the popliteal lymph node 24 h after the footpad injection. Here, these data suggested that the cell tracking system with the stable fluorescence dye DiD was useful as a cell tracking tool to advance dendritic cell-based immunotherapy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.397-399
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 MPEG 형식으로 압축된 동영상을 데이터에 대하여 비디오 및 오디오 정보를모두 이용하는 새로운 신 경계 검출방법을 제안하고 여러 실험을 통해서 그 유용성을 증명한다. 즉, 본 논문에서는 DC이미지 형태의 대표 프레임을 바탕으로 한 비디오 기반 신 경계 검출방법[8]과 dB값을 이용한 오디오 기반 신 경계 검출방법[9]을 결합하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 두 방법에서 모두 신으로 검출한 경계에 대하여서는 신으로 인정하고, 검출한 결과가 다른 경우에 대하여서는 각각의 경계 데이터를 좀 더 자세히 분석하여 신 경계를 검출하도록 한다. 비디오 기반 신 경계 검출방법에서만 검출된 신 경계에 대해서는 그 경계 데이터에 대해서 dB값의 차이를 해당 시간범위 내에서 다시 비교하여 신 경계 여부를 판단하고, 오디오 기반 신 경계 검출방법에서만 검출되 신 경계에 대해서는 그 경계 데이터에 대해서 샷의 유사도를 샷의 개수에 관계없이 시간의 임계치만 고려해서 비교한 다음 신 경계 여부를 판단하게 된다. 이러한 방법으로 신 경계를 검출한 결과를 살펴보면 Precision측면에서는 최고24%까지, Recall측면에서는 최고25%까지 효율을 높이고 있음을 알 수 있다. 이러한 알고리즘은 기존의 신 경계 검출 방법 보다 높은 효율을 제공하여 비디오 데이터를 사용하는 여러 응용분야에서의 프로그램 개발에 이용될 수 있을 것이다.