• 대한한의학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.116-124
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• 2006

Peripheral nerve injuries are a commonly encountered clinical problem and often result in chronic pain and severe functional deficits. At the Dept. of Oriental Rehab. Medicine, we have used for pain control a herbal bath containing the following herbs: Harpagophytum radix, Atractylodes japonica and Corydalis tuber. In the present study, we investigated the effects of this herbal bath on the recovery rate of the locomotor function and the expression of c-Fos in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vIPAG) region of the brain following sciatic crushed nerve injury in rats. In the present study, characteristic gait change with decreasing of the sciatic function index (SFI) was observed and c-Fos expression in the vIPAG was suppressed following sciatic crushed nerve injury in rats. Immersion into herbal bath enhanced SFI value and restored c-Fos expression in the vIPAG to the control value. These results suggest the herbal bath might activate neurons in the vIPAG, and could facilitate functional recovery from peripheral nerve injury.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1856-1863
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• 2005

In this study, a visual sensor system for weld seam tracking the I-butt weld joints in GMA welding was constructed. The sensor system consists of a CCD camera, a diode laser with a cylindrical lens and a band-pass-filter to overcome the degrading of image due to spatters and arc light. In order to obtain the enhanced image, quantitative relationship between laser intensity and iris opening was investigated. Throughout the repeated experiments, the shutter speed was set at 1/1000 second for minimizing the effect of spatters on the image, and therefore the image without the spatter traces could be obtained. Region of interest was defined from the entire image and gray level of the searched laser stripe was compared to that of weld line. The differences between these gray levels lead to spot the position of weld joint using central difference method. The results showed that, as long as weld line is within $\pm15^{o}$ from the longitudinal straight line, the system constructed in this study could track the weld line successfully. Since the processing time is no longer than 0.05 sec, it is expected that the developed method could be adopted to high speed welding such as laser welding.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.387-397
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• 2023

Tooth surface shape error is an important parameter in gear accuracy evaluation. When tooth surface shape error is measured by laser interferometry, the gear interferogram is highly distorted and the gray level distribution is not uniform. Therefore, it is important for gear interferometry to extract the foreground region from the gear interference fringe image directly and accurately. This paper presents an approach for foreground extraction in gear interference images by leveraging the sinusoidal variation characteristics shown by the interference fringes. A gray level mask with an adaptive threshold is established to capture the relevant features, while a local variance evaluation function is employed to analyze the fluctuation state of the interference image and derive a repair mask. By combining these masks, the foreground region is directly extracted. Comparative evaluations using qualitative and quantitative assessment methods are performed to compare the proposed algorithm with both reference results and traditional approaches. The experimental findings reveal a remarkable degree of matching between the algorithm and the reference results. As a result, this method shows great potential for widespread application in the foreground extraction of gear interference images.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.50-53
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• 2007

This paper presents face features detection and a new physiological neuro-fuzzy learning method by using two-dimensional variances based on variation of gray level and by learning for a statistical distribution of the detected face features. This paper reports a method to learn by not using partial face image but using global face image. Face detection process of this method is performed by describing differences of variance change between edge region and stationary region by gray-scale variation of global face having featured regions including nose, mouse, and couple of eyes. To process the learning stage, we use the input layer obtained by statistical distribution of the featured regions for performing the new physiological neuro-fuzzy algorithm.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제35S권7호
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• pp.37-45
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• 1998

In this paper, we extracted heart region using dyamic contour model, increased the vertical resolution of heart region by proposed 2-dimensional interpolation method and visualized the 3-dimensional hearet volutme. the proposed new energy term of dynamic contour model considering the gray level and direction of controur vectors is effective to extract the closed heart boundary. And, we generatedvertical slice images from the extracted heart region images using the 2-dimensional linear interpolation by DT(distance transform). We showed that proposed algorithm is useful by 3-dimensional visualization of heart volume.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.179-190
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• 2001

제안된 연구에서는 조영제를 사용한 복부 CT 영상에 대한 특성을 분석함으로써 간에 대한 자동추출을 시행하였다. 영상에 나타난 명암값을 지형적 고도정보로 해석하는 침수실험에 근거하여 영역을 분리하였고 임계값에 의하여 장기 내부의 국부최대점들을 제거함으로써 장기에 해당하는 부분들을 합병하였다. 임계값은 장기를 구성하는 각 명암값의 비율에 의하여 생성된 메쉬영상으로부터 결정되었고 간과 노이즈 영역의 분리에 사용되었다. 장기의 외곽선추출을 위해서는 장기의 전반적인 형태를 나타내는 템플리트를 생성한 후 이진 영상에서 서브트랙션하는 방법을 사용하였다. 템플리트의 생성과정에서는 처리시간이 긴 기존의 오프닝 방법을 사용하지 않고 8-연결성에 의한 방법을 사용함으로써 처리속도를 단축하였다. 추출된 장기의 면적을 토대로 체적계산을 시행하였고 동물실험을 통하여 임상 실험치를 제시하였다.

• 치과방사선
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.85-94
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• 1994

The purposes of this study were clinical comparison and evaluation between digital radiography and conventional radiography for the detection of artificial interproximal caries. Four freshly extracted, unrestored posterior teeth were obtained and caries was simulated by drilling semicircled defects with variable size at the interproximal surface of each tooth. The experiments were performed with IBM-PC/32 bit-DX compatible, video camera(VM-S8200, Hitachi Co., Japan), and color monitor(Multisync 3D, NEC, Japan). Sylvia Image Capture Board for the ADC(analog to digital converter) was used, and spatial resolution was 512 × 480 with 256 gray levels. The obtained results were as follows: 1. At the condition of under exposure, the radiographs were superior to the digital images in readability. Also, as the size of the artificial lesion was increased, readability of the radiographs was elevated. 2. The digital images were superior to the radiographs in readability especially under over exsposure. 3. As the exposure time and size of lesion was increased, the gray level of region of interest of the digital image was decreased proportionally. 4. As the F-value of average gray level of region of interest at individual exposure time and size of lesion, gray level of the all lesion sizes was decreased in comparison with that of the normal enamel.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 제13회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.901-904
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• 2000

A direct authentication from gray-scale image, instead of the conventional multi-step preprocessing, is proposed using Gabor filter-based features from the gray-scale fingerprint around core point. The core point is located as a reference point for the translation invariant matching. And its principal symmetry axis is detected for the rotation invariant matching from its neighboring region centered at the core point. And then fingerprint is divided into non-overlapping blocks with respect to the core point and features are directly extracted form the blocked gray level fingerprint using Gabor filter. The proposed fingerprint authentication is based on the Euclidean distance between the corresponding Gabor features of the input and the template fingerprints. Experiments are conducted on 300${\times}$300 fingerprints obtained from a CMOS sensor with 500 dpi resolution, and the proposed method could lower the False Reject Rate(FRR) to 18.2% under False Acceptance Rate(FAR) of 0%.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2006

변형된 면적기반영역선별 기법으로 문자영상 속에 내재되어 있던 영역 분할을 회복하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 정보영역과 바탕영역으로 양분되어 있는 이진 원영상에 비해 오염 및 훼손으로 관측영상은 얼룩점과 잡음이 전체 영상에 섞여 다수의 크고 작은 영역들이 혼재된 그레이스케일 형태가 된다. 이러한 영상을 종래의 문턱치 처리나 확률적 기법으로 영역 분할하려면 이진영상으로 전환시킴에 의한 영역 형태 변형 문제가 발생한다. 이 문제를 최소화하기 위해 마름모꼴 블록을 채택한 반복조건부양식(iterated conditional mode, ICM) 기법으로 이진 영상을 구현하여 일차적으로 영역들의 집합으로 분류하였다. 그 다음 현재고려중인 화소에서 화소의 영역형성 판별과 영역의 면적을 산출하였다. 이를 전체 화소에 걸쳐 순차적으로 확산하여 해당영역들의 정보영역으로의 귀속 여부를 선택적으로 판정 분할함으로 정보영역 본래 형태를 복원하였다. 이 때 지정 영역들의 산출 면적들은 하나의 집합으로 배속 정렬되며 확률처리로 얻은 판별 파라미터 값에 의해 선별된다. 그레이스케일 탁본영상을 대상으로 종래의 문턱치 영역분할 기법과 ICM 기법도 함께 실험하였다. 그 결과 종래의 기법에 비해 우수한 영역분할 효과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제30권12호
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• pp.1247-1254
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• 2003

현재 경동맥 내막절제술 시행을 위한 경동맥 협착증의 정도 측정에는 디지털감산조영술(DSA), 회전조영술(rotational angiography), 컴퓨터단층조영술(CTA) 및 자기공명조영술(MRA)로부터 얻어진 경동맥의 투영 영상을 이용하여 북미, 유럽 표준 및 총경동맥 방법이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 기계적인 측경기를 이용하는 전형적인 경동맥 협착 측정 방법의 단점을 극복하고, 측정자간의 변화율을 최소화하기 위해 자기공명조영술의 단면 영상을 사용하고 컴퓨터화한 새로운 협착증 정도 측정 방법을 개발하였다. 영상 분할에 사용되는 방법중 가장 널리 사용되고 효율적인 명암값 임계치 방법을 사용하여 경동맥 및 동맥의 내강을 분할하였다. 또한, 각 증례의 측정된 총경동맥의 혈관두께를 사용하여 분할된 경동맥으로부터 혈관을 제거 하였고, 혈관이 제거된 경동맥을 혈류 영역과 플라그 영역으로 분할하였다. 각 단면 영상에서의 경동맥 협착증 정도 측정은 (분할된 플라그 영역/혈류영역 및 플라그를 합한 면적) * 100% 식으로 계산된다.