• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.2924-2932
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• 2015

Image binarization is a process to divide the image into objects and backgrounds, widely applied to the fields of image analysis and its recognition. In the existing method of binarization, there is some uncertainty when there is insufficient brightness gap between objects and backgrounds in setting threshold. The method of fuzzy binarization has improved the features of objects efficiently. However, since this method sets ${\alpha}$-cut value statically, there remain some problems that important features of objects can be lost during binarization. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a binarization method which does not set ${\alpha}$-cut value statically. The proposed method uses fuzzy membership functions calculated by thresholds of mean, iterative, and Otsu binarization. Experiment results show the proposed method binaries various images with less loss than the existing methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1269-1274
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• 2014

In computer vision research, binarization procedure is one of the most frequently used tools to discriminate target objects from background in grey level binary image. Fuzzy binarization is a reliable technique in environment with high uncertainty such as medical image analysis by setting the threshold as the average of minimum and maximum brightness with triangle type fuzzy membership function. However, this technique is also known as contrast sensitive method thus its discrimination power is not so great when the image has low contrast difference between objects and backgrounds and suffer from information loss as a result. Thus, in this paper, we propose a fuzzy binarization using ART2 algorithm to handle such low contrast image analysis. Proposed ART2 algorithm is applied to determine the medium point of membership function in the fuzzy binarization paradigm. The proposed methods shows low information loss rate in our experiment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.94-96
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 기존의 백내장 추출 방법을 개선하기 위해 FCM(Fuzzy C_Means) 알고리즘을 적용하여 백내장을 추출하고 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 애견 안구 영상에서 ROI 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에서 Fuzzy Stretching 기법을 적용하여 픽셀의 상한 값과 하한 값을 조정한다. 퍼지 스트레칭 기법이 적용된 ROI 영역에 Max-Min 기반 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역을 이진화한다. 그리고 퍼지 스트레칭 기법이 적용된 ROI 영역에 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하여 양자화한 후에 양자화된 ROI 영역에서 밝기 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하여 이진화한다. 따라서 Max-Min 기반 이진화 기법을 적용하여 이진화된 ROI 영역과 밝기 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하여 이진화된 ROI 영역을 AND 연산을 적용하여 백내장의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 백내장의 후보 영역에서 침식, 팽창 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역의 픽셀 크기를 확대 또는 축소하고 타원 형태를 가진 객체 중에서 ROI의 전체 영역의 크기가 1/5보다 적은 객체를 잡음으로 간주하여 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 백내장의 후보 영역에서 크기가 3/5이상인 영역을 백내장 영역으로 추출한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 분석하기 위하여 기존의 백내장 추출 방법과 제안된 백내장 추출 방법을 15개의 백내장 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 백내장 추출 방법보다 백내장 추출률이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.231-236
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• 2011

The binarization algorithm frequently applies to one part of the preprocessing phase for a variety of image processing techniques such as image recognition and image analysis, etc. So it is important that binarization algorithm is determined by the selection of threshold value for binarization in image processing. The previous algorithms could get the proper threshold value in the case that shows all the difference of brightness between background and object, but if not, they could not get the proper threshold value. In this paper, we propose the efficient fuzzy binarization method which first, segments the brightness range of gray_scale images to 2 intervals to perform car license plate binarization and applies fuzzy member function to each intervals. The experiment for performance evaluation of the proposed binarization algorithm showed that the proposed algorithm generates the more effective threshold value than the previous algorithms in car license plate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.311-313
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• 2011

대부문의 이진화 알고리즘은 임계치를 결정하기 위하여 히스토그램을 사용하여 밝기분포를 분석한다. 배경과 물체의 명도차이가 큰 경우에는 분할을 위해 양봉(bimadal) 히스토그램으로 표현하여 최적의 임계치를 찾기 위해 히스토그램 골짜기(valley)를 선택하는 것만으로도 양호한 임계치 결과를 얻을 수 있다. 하지만 배경과 물체의 밝기 차이가 크지 않거나 밝기 분포가 양봉 특성이 보이지 않을 때는 히스토그램 분석만으로 적절한 임계치를 얻기 어렵다. 그리고 한 영상에서는 넓은 영역에 걸쳐 명암도 변화가 일어나고 다양한 유형의 물체가 있을 때 스케치 특징점의 유무를 판별하는 임계치의 결정에는 애매모호함이 존재한다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 영상에 대한 삼각형 타입의 소속함수를 적용하여 임계치를 동적으로 설정하고 영상을 이진화하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 퍼지 이진화 알고리즘은 원 영상을 특정 크기의 윈도우로 나누어서 윈도우의 소속 함수에 대한 소속도를 구하여 영상을 이진화한다. 다양한 영상에 적용한 결과, 기존의 이진화 기법보다 제안된 퍼지 이진화 알고리즘이 효율적인 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.485-492
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• 2016

A role of the binarization is very important in separating the foreground and the background in the field of the computer vision. In this study, an adaptive fuzzy binarization is proposed. An ${\alpha}$-cut control ratio is obtained by the distribution of grey level of pixels in a sliding window, and binarization is performed using the value. To obtain the ${\alpha}$-cut, existing thresholding methods which execution speed is fast are used. The threshold values are set as the center of each membership function and the fuzzy intervals of the functions are specified with the distribution of grey level of the pixel. Then ${\alpha}$-control ratio is calculated using the specified function and binarization is performed according to the membership degree of the pixels. The experimental results show the proposed method can segment the foreground and the background well than existing binarization methods and decrease loss of the foreground.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.1514-1519
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• 2019

IVUS is an intra-operative imaging modality that facilitates observing and appraising the vessel wall structure of the human coronary arteries. IVUS is regularly used to locate the atherosclerosis lesions in the coronary arteries. Auto-segmentation of the vessel structure is important to detect the disorder of coronary artery. In this paper, we propose a simple strategy to extract Intima/Adventitia area effectively using fuzzy binarization from intravascular images. The proposed method apply fuzzy binarization to find the adventitia but apply average binarization to locate the intima since they have different homogeneity of pixel intensity comparing with the environment. In this paper, we demonstrate an effective auto-segmentation method for detecting the interior/exterior of the vessel walls by differentiating the fuzzy binarization result and average binarization result from IVUS image. Important statistics such as Intima-Media Thickness (IMT) or volume of a target area can be easily computed from result.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.1428-1434
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• 2018

Canine cataract is developed with aging and can cause the blindness or surgical treatment if not treated timely. In this paper, we propose a method for extracting cataract suspicious areas automatically with FCM(Fuzzy C_Means) algorithm to overcome the weakness of previously attempted ART2 based method. The proposed method applies the fuzzy stretching technique and the Max-Min based average binarization technique to the dog eye images photographed by simple devices such as mobile phones. After applying the FCM algorithm in quantization, we apply the brightness average binarization method in the quantized region. The two binarization images - Max-Min basis and brightness average binarization - are ANDed, and small noises are removed to extract the final cataract suspicious areas. In the experiment with 45 dog eye images with canine cataract, the proposed method shows better performance in correct extraction rate than the ART2 based method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.1852-1859
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• 2016

The effectiveness of a binarization algorithm in image processing depends on how to eliminate the uncertainty of determining threshold in a reasonable way and on minimizing information loss due to the binarization effect. Fuzzy binarization technique was proposed to handle that uncertainty with fuzzy logic. However, that method is known to be inefficient when the given image has low intensity contrast. In this paper, we propose an improved fuzzy binarization method to overcome such known drawbacks. Our method proposes a trapezoid type fuzzy membership function instead of most-frequently used triangle type one. We also propose an adaptive ${\alpha}$_cut determination policy. Our proposed method has less information loss than other algorithms since we do not use any stretching based preprocessing for enhancing the intensity contrast. In experiment, our proposed method is verified to be more effective in binarization with less information loss for many different types of images with low intensity contrast such as night scenery, lumber scoliosis, and lipoma images.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1281-1285
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a method to extract the area of appendix from ultrasonographic image via computational vision. A series of image processing techniques such as Ends-in search stretching for enhancing the brightness contrast, block binarization, grassfire algorithm for extracting lower part of fascia, and fuzzy sigma binarization method to finalize the appendix area are used to achieve our goal. The strength of this paper is using fuzzy sigma binarization instead of other binarization technique to handle the sensitivity of extracting the target area from regio hypogastrica. The experiment verifies the efficacy of the proposed method successfully.