• Journal of International Society for Simulation Surgery
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.37-40
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• 2014

Purpose For living donor liver transplantation, liver segmentation is difficult due to the variability of its shape across patients and similarity of the density of neighbor organs such as heart, stomach, kidney, and spleen. In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation of the liver using multi-planar anatomy and deformable surface model in portal phase of abdominal contrast-enhanced CT images. Method Our method is composed of four main steps. First, the optimal liver volume is extracted by positional information of pelvis and rib and by separating lungs and heart from CT images. Second, anisotropic diffusing filtering and adaptive thresholding are used to segment the initial liver volume. Third, morphological opening and connected component labeling are applied to multiple planes for removing neighbor organs. Finally, deformable surface model and probability summation map are performed to refine a posterior liver surface and missing left robe in previous step. Results All experimental datasets were acquired on ten living donors using a SIEMENS CT system. Each image had a matrix size of $512{\times}512$ pixels with in-plane resolutions ranging from 0.54 to 0.70 mm. The slice spacing was 2.0 mm and the number of images per scan ranged from 136 to 229. For accuracy evaluation, the average symmetric surface distance (ASD) and the volume overlap error (VE) between automatic segmentation and manual segmentation by two radiologists are calculated. The ASD was $0.26{\pm}0.12mm$ for manual1 versus automatic and $0.24{\pm}0.09mm$ for manual2 versus automatic while that of inter-radiologists was $0.23{\pm}0.05mm$. The VE was $0.86{\pm}0.45%$ for manual1 versus automatic and $0.73{\pm}0.33%$ for manaual2 versus automatic while that of inter-radiologist was $0.76{\pm}0.21%$. Conclusion Our method can be used for the liver volumetry for the pre-surgery planning of living donor liver transplantation.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제15B권6호
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• pp.561-574
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• 2008

2차원 전기영동 영상 분석 프로그램의 반점 검출 단계는 영상 분할 알고리즘을 사용해서 겔 영상을 반점 영역으로 분할하고 각 반점 영역을 반점 형태 모형에 정합하여 다음 단계에 필요한 반점 정보를 정량화한다. 현재 영상 분할 알고리즘으로는 분수령 기법이 일반적으로 사용되며, 대표적인 반점 형태 모형으로는 가우스 모형, 확산 모형이 있다. 확산 모형이 가우스 모형보다 실제의 반점 형태에 좀 더 가깝기는 하지만, 반점 형태는 매우 다양하며 특히 x-축과 y-축에 대해서 비대칭적인 형태를 보인다. 반점이 비대칭적 형태인 이유는 2-DE 처리가 통상 이상적인 환경 하에서 이루어질 수 없기 때문에 단백질이 완전히 확산되지 못하기 때문으로 알려져 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 비대칭 확산 모형을 제안한다. 비대칭 확산 모형은 초기에는 단백질이 하나의 원으로부터 확산되지만, 시간이 흐름에 따라 x-축과 y-축에 대해서 비대칭적으로 확산된다고 가정한 모형이다. 실험으로서 19개의 겔 영상에 대해서 세 모형별로 반점 정합을 수행하고 세 모형의 비교를 위해서 SNR의 평균을 구하였다. 실험결과인 SNR의 평균은 가우스 모형이 14.22dB, 확산 모형이 20.72dB, 비대칭 확산 모형이 22.85dB이었다. 실험결과로써 비대칭 확산 모형이 가우스 모형과 확산 모형에 비해서 반점 정합에 보다 더 효율적이며 적합한 모형임을 확인하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.1356-1361
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• 2004

High temperature superconducting coated conductor has a structure of ///. The buffer layer consists of multi-layer, this study reports the deposition method and optimal deposition conditions of YSZ(Yttria-stabilized zirconia) layer which plays a important part in preventing the elements of substrate from diffusing into the superconducting layer. YSZ layer was deposited by DC reactive sputtering technique using water vapor for oxidizing deposited elements on substrate. To investigate optimal thickness of YSZ film, four YSZ/CeO$_2$/Ni samples with different YSZ thickness(130 nm, 260 nm, 390 nm, and 650 nm) were prepared. The SEM image showed that the surface of YSZ layer was getting to be rougher as YSZ layer was getting thicker and the growth mode of YSZ layer was columnar grain growth. After CeO$_2$ layer was deposited with the same thickness of 18.3 nm on each four samples, YBCO layer was deposited by PLD method with the thickness of 300 nm. The critical currents of four samples were 0, 6 A, 7.5 A, and 5 A respectively. This shows that as YSZ layer is getting thicker, YSZ layer plays a good role as a diffusion barrier but the surface of YSZ layer is getting rougher.