• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.147-153
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• 2020

This study was to evaluate the usability of self-developed phantom for evaluating automatic exposure control (AEC) using three-dimensions (3D) printer. 3D printer of fused deposition modeling (FDM) type was utilized to make the self-developed AEC phantom and image acquisitions were conducted by two different type of scanners. The self-developed AEC phantom consisted of four different size of portions. As a result, two types of phantom (pyramid and pentagon shape) were created according to the combination of the layers. For evaluating the radiation dose with the two types of phantom, the values of tube current, computed tomography dose index volume (CTDIvol), and dose length product (DLP) were compared. As a result, it was confirmed that the values of tube current were properly reflected according to the thickness, and the CTDIvol and DLP were not significantly changed regardless of AEC functions of different scanners. In conclusion, the self-developed phantom by using 3D printer could assess whether the AEC function works well. So, we confirmed the possibility that a self-made phantom could replace the commercially expensive AEC performance evaluation phantom.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.12-18
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• 2012

스테레오 대응성은 스테레오 비전에서 중요한 문제이다. 본 논문은 다해상도 기법과 AD-Census를 이용한 유전 알고리즘 기반의 스테레오 정합 기법을 제안한다. 정합 환경을 최적화 문제로 간주하여 유전 알고리즘으로 변위를 탐색한다. 그리고 에지 픽셀을 이용한 적응적 염색체 구조와 교배 방식을 적용한다. 비용함수는 스테레오 정합에서 주로 고려할 수 있는 제약 조건으로 구성하였고, 변위오차를 줄이기 위해 AD-Census 척도를 사용하였다. 처리의 효율을 높이기 위해 영상 피라미드 방법을 적용하여 최저해상도에서 최초 변위 도를 계산한다. 그리고 최초 변위도는 다음 해상도 단계로 전파되어, 보간된 후 지역 특징 벡터를 이용하여 정제를 수행한다. 실험을 통해 제안한 방법이 다른 유전 알고리즘 기반 기법들에 비해 변위 탐색 시간을 감소시킬 뿐만 아니라 정합의 타당성을 보증함을 확인하고자 한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2002

Inspection and shape measurement of three-dimensional objects are widely needed in industries for quality monitoring and control. A number of visual or optical technologies have been successfully applied to measure three-dimensional surfaces. However, those conventional visual or optical methods have inherent shortcomings such as occlusion and variant surface reflection. X-ray vision system can be a good solution to these conventional problems, since we can extract the volume information including both the surface geometry and the inner structure of any objects. In the x-ray system, the surface condition of an object, whether it is lambertian or specular, does not affect the inherent characteristics of its x-ray images. In this paper, we propose a three-dimensional x-ray imaging method to reconstruct a three dimensional structure of an object out of two dimensional x-ray image sets. To achieve this by the proposed method, two or more x-ray images projected from different views are needed. Once these images are acquired, the simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique(SART) is usually utilized. Since the existing SART algorithms have several shortcomings such as low performance in convergence and different convergence within the reconstruction volume of interest, an advanced SART algorithm named as USART(uniform SART) is proposed to avoid such shortcomings and improve the reconstruction performance. Because, each voxel within the volume is equally weighted to update instantaneous value of its internal density, it can achieve uniform convergence property of the reconstructed volume. The algorithm is simulated on various shapes of objects such as a pyramid, a hemisphere and a BGA model. Based on simulation results the performance of the proposed method is compared with that of the conventional SART method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.5179-5196
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• 2019

To explore an effective non-invasion medical imaging diagnostics approach for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we propose a method based on adopting the multiple technologies with the multi-parametric data fusion, transfer learning, and multi-scale deep feature extraction. Firstly, to make full use of complementary and enhancing the contribution of different modalities viz. multi-parametric MRI images in the lesion diagnosis, we propose a data-level fusion strategy. Secondly, based on the fusion data as the input, the multi-scale residual neural network with SPP (Spatial Pyramid Pooling) is utilized for the discriminative feature representation learning. Thirdly, to mitigate the impact of the lack of training samples, we do the pre-training of the proposed multi-scale residual neural network model on the natural image dataset and the fine-tuning with the chosen multi-parametric MRI images as complementary data. The comparative experiment results on the dataset from the clinical cases show that our proposed approach by employing the multiple strategies achieves the highest accuracy of 0.847±0.023 in the classification problem on the HCC differentiation. In the problem of discriminating the HCC lesion from the non-tumor area, we achieve a good performance with accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and AUC (area under the ROC curve) being 0.981±0.002, 0.981±0.002, 0.991±0.007 and 0.999±0.0008, respectively.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.739-748
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose pyramid appearance and global structure action descriptors on both RGB and depth motion history images and a model-free method for human action recognition. In proposed algorithm, we firstly construct motion history image for both RGB and depth channels, at the same time, depth information is employed to filter RGB information, after that, different action descriptors are extracted from depth and RGB MHIs to represent these actions, and then multimodality information collaborative representation and recognition model, in which multi-modality information are put into object function naturally, and information fusion and action recognition also be done together, is proposed to classify human actions. To demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method, we evaluate it on MSR Action3D and DHA datasets, the well-known dataset for human action recognition. Large scale experiment shows our descriptors are robust, stable and efficient, when comparing with the-state-of-the-art algorithms, the performances of our descriptors are better than that of them, further, the performance of combined descriptors is much better than just using sole descriptor. What is more, our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on both MSR Action3D and DHA datasets.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.128-138
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• 2014

여닫이형 방사선 치료에서, 잔여 움직임으로 인하여 방사선은 실직적인 질병의 부위 뿐만이 아니라 주변 정상조직까지 투여 되도록 되어 있다. 비록 표적이 방사선 투여 중 움직이지만, 방사선이 최소한도로 실질적인 부위 (임상적 표적 체적)에 조사되기를 원한다. 본 연구의 목적은 여닫이형 치료에 있어서 방사선이 실질적인 표적에 투여되는지를 검증하고, 여닫이 범위, 움직임의 정도 및 임상적 표적체적의 크기의 변화에 따라, 표적및 주변 조직에 투여되는 방사선의 경향을 연구하는 데 있다. 이 목적을 달성하기 위하여, 실험 및 이론적인 연구를 고안하여 수행하였다. 직육각형 및 피라미드형의 표적 체적을 내포하는 팬텀을 만들어 움직이며 4차원 영상을 얻었다. 여러 여닫이 범위를 얻어진 영상에 적용하여 치료계획용 내부표적(표적체적 및 내부 움직임범위포함)을 만들었다. 직육각형 표적에는 전통적인 치료계획을 그리고 피라미드형 표적에는 세기 변조형 치료계획을 세웠다. 평판형 다이오드에 치료계획에서 얻어진 여닫이형 방사선을 수직으로 조사하여 실험적으로 선량평가를 수행하였고 또한 움직이는 상황에서 선량투여를 전산적으로 모사하였다. 본 연구는 두 표적에 대한 반음영 영역의 확장 및 움직임으로 인하여 방해 받았으나 확실하게 수행된 표적 선량투여 그리고 주변 조직에 투여된 상당량의 선량등을 수반하는 잔여움직임의 영향을 정량적으로 그리고 해석적으로 분석하였다. 선량-체적 히스토그램 분석에 따르면, 내부표적에는 여닫이 범위 또는 움직임 정도가 감소함에 따라 또한 표적체적이 증가함에 따라 선량이 증가함을 보였고, 내부 움직임 범위에 해당하는 체적에 대하여는 여닫이 범위 또는 움직임 정도가 감소함에 따라 선량이 증가하였고, 마지막으로 주변 정상조직에 대하여는, 내부 움직임 범위와는 반대의 경향을 보였다. 본 연구는 잔여움직임의 영향에 대하여 확실한 이해를 주었고 호흡행태가 재생되는한 불연속적인 투여과 표적의 움직임에도 불구하고 여당이형 방사선 치료는 안전함을 입증하였다. 본연구에서 수반된 절차와 전산적 모델은 여닫이형 치료의 시작점 검증, 주기적인 품질관리 및 환자별 검증에 사용될 수 있다. 환자별 영상에 선량을 재구성하는 방향으로 추후 연구가 필요하다.

• 미술이론과 현장
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• 제7호
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• pp.165-188
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• 2009

In the development of linear perspective, Brook Taylor's theory has achieved a special position. With his method described in Linear Perspective(1715) and New Principles of Linear Perspective(1719), the subject of linear perspective became a generalized and abstract theory rather than a practical method for painters. He is known to be the first who used the term 'vanishing point'. Although a similar concept has been used form the early stage of Renaissance linear perspective, he developed a new method of British perspective technique of measure points based on the concept of 'vanishing points'. In the 15th and 16th century linear perspective, pictorial space is considered as independent space detached from the outer world. Albertian method of linear perspective is to construct a pavement on the picture in accordance with the centric point where the centric ray of the visual pyramid strikes the picture plane. Comparison to this traditional method, Taylor established the concent of a vanishing point (and a vanishing line), namely, the point (and the line) where a line (and a plane) through the eye point parallel to the considered line (and the plane) meets the picture plane. In the traditional situation like in Albertian method, the picture plane was assumed to be vertical and the center of the picture usually corresponded with the vanishing point. On the other hand, Taylor emphasized the role of vanishing points, and as a result, his method entered the domain of projective geometry rather than Euclidean geometry. For Taylor's theory was highly abstract and difficult to apply for the practitioners, there appeared many perspective treatises based on his theory in England since 1740s. Joshua Kirby's Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective Made Easy, Both in Theory and Practice(1754) was one of the most popular treatises among these posterior writings. As a well-known painter of the 18th century English society and perspective professor of the St. Martin's Lane Academy, Kirby tried to bridge the gap between the practice of the artists and the mathematical theory of Taylor. Trying to ease the common readers into Taylor's method, Kirby somehow abbreviated and even omitted several crucial parts of Taylor's ideas, especially concerning to the inverse problems of perspective projection. Taylor's theory and Kirby's handbook reveal us that the development of linear perspective in European society entered a transitional phase in the 18th century. In the European tradition, linear perspective means a representational system to indicated the three-dimensional nature of space and the image of objects on the two-dimensional surface, using the central projection method. However, Taylor and following scholars converted linear perspective as a complete mathematical and abstract theory. Such a development was also due to concern and interest of contemporary artists toward new visions of infinite space and kaleidoscopic phenomena of visual perception.