• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.309-315
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• 2009

MRI로부터 얻어지는 영상신호는 주파수 영역 데이터에 주파수 필터를 적용한 후 이를 역 퓨리에 변환하여 영상을 재구성하는 방법을 적용하고 있다. 의료 영상들을 임상에서 효율적으로 활용할 수 있도록 하기 위해 다양한 영상처리 기법들이 사용되고 있다. 즉 영상 진단 장비로 획득한 영상을 전처리과정(Preprocessing)을 수행하는 영상처리 기법과 이차원 영상을 삼차원으로 나타내는 영상 재구성 방법, 영상을 효율적으로 저장하고 전송하기 위한 영상 압축 기법과 복원 기법 등이 있다. 그리고 다양한 영상기기들로부터 획득한 영상을 조합하여 진단에 활용하는 기법, 영상기기 또는 주위 환경으로부터 발생한 로이즈 및 이물질의 제거, 영상의 신호강도와 신호대잡음비 (SNR, Signal to Noise Ratio)를 증가시키고 대조도를 향상시켜 영상의 화질을 개선하는 기법 등이 있다. 본 논문에서는 MRI로부터 획득한 k-space 데이터의 주파수 및 위상 성분을 변화시킬 수 있는 필터들을 설계한 후 각각의 특성을 비교 분석하여 임상에서 질환의 진단에 적용 가능한 최적의 필터, 즉 변형된 Fermi-Dirac 필터를 고안하였고 이 필터는 기존 MR 영상보다 영상의 화질을 개선시키는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.359-365
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• 2016

투시조영촬영은 인체 내부의 조직이나 장기를 검사할 때 시행하며 특히 척추 질환의 진단 및 시술에 사용된다. 영상증배관(image intensifier tube)을 사용하는 투시조영 촬영장비는 영상에서 중심부보다 주변부에 왜곡이 나타난다. 본 연구에서는 교정 알고리즘을 적용하여 교정전과 교정후의 수직길이비 왜곡비율과 대각길이비의 왜곡비율을 측정하였다. 수직길이비의 측정결과는 교정후의 표준편차가 교정전보다 0.04감소하였고 대각길이비의 측정결과는 교정후의 표준편차가 교정전보다 0.06감소하여 교정 후 투시영상의 왜곡이 감소되었다. 향후 교정 알고리즘의 적용과 성능향상을 통해서 영상왜곡을 감소시키면 요추디스크의 치료를 위한 수핵감압술시 요추천자의 정확한 위치를 찾는데 도움을 줄 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.417-421
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• 2004

안경렌즈 면 위에 반사되는 상을 관찰하연 한 물체에 대해 두 개의 상이 나타나 있다. 이것은 렌즈 전면에서 반사되는 상과 렌즈 후면에서 반사되는 상이다. 이 상들은 렌즈 전, 후면의 굴절력에 의해 렌즈 면에서 반사되는 상이며, 렌즈 전체의 굴절력은 렌즈 전, 후면의 굴절력을 이용하면 얻을 수가 있다. 그러므로 렌즈 면 위에서 나타나는 상 크기 측정은 렌즈의 굴절력을 측정하는 기기의 도움 없이 렌즈의 굴절력을 측정하는 방법이 될 수 있다. 렌즈 면 위에서 측정된 두 개 반사상의 비와 굴절력을 측정하여 계산한 값과 비교하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.510-513
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• 2014

A Q-band pHEMT image-rejection low-noise amplifier (IR-LNA) is presented using inter-stage tunable resonators. The inter-stage L-C resonators can maximize an image rejection by functioning as inter-stage matching circuits at an operating frequency ($F_{OP}$) and short circuits at an image frequency ($F_{IM}$). In addition, it also brings more wideband image rejection than conventional notch filters. Moreover, tunable varactors in L-C resonators not only compensate for the mismatch of an image frequency induced by the process variation or model error but can also change the image frequency according to a required RF frequency. The implemented pHEMT IR-LNA shows 54.3 dB maximum image rejection ratio (IRR). By changing the varactor bias, the image frequency shifts from 27 GHz to 37 GHz with over 40 dB IRR, a 19.1 dB to 17.6 dB peak gain, and 3.2 dB to 4.3 dB noise figure. To the best of the authors' knowledge, it shows the highest IRR and $F_{IM}/F_{OP}$ of the reported millimeter/quasi-millimeter wave IR-LNAs.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.849-857
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a (2,2)-reversible secret image sharing scheme using histogram shifting and difference expansion. Two techniques are widely used in information hiding. Advantages of them are the low distortion between cover and stego images, and high embedding capacity. In secret image sharing procedure, unlike Shamir's secret sharing, a histogram generate that the difference value between the original image and copy image is computed by difference expansion. And then, the secret image is embedded into original and copy images by using histogram shifting. Lastly, two generated shadow images are distributed to each participant by the dealer. In the experimental results, we measure a capacity of a secret image and a distortion ratio between original image and shadow image. The results show that the embedding capacity and image distortion ratio of the proposed scheme are superior to the previous schemes.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.499-507
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• 2016

Medical imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and Ultrasound (US) produce a large amount of digital medical images. Hence, compression of digital images becomes essential and is very much desired in medical applications to solve both storage and transmission problems. But at the same time, an efficient image compression scheme that reduces the size of medical images without sacrificing diagnostic information is required. This paper proposes a novel threshold-based medical image compression algorithm to reduce the size of the medical image without degradation in the diagnostic information. This algorithm discusses a novel type of thresholding to maximize Compression Ratio (CR) without sacrificing diagnostic information. The compression algorithm is designed to get image with high optimum compression efficiency and also with high fidelity, especially for Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) greater than or equal to 36 dB. This value of PSNR is chosen because it has been suggested by previous researchers that medical images, if have PSNR from 30 dB to 50 dB, will retain diagnostic information. The compression algorithm utilizes one-level wavelet decomposition with threshold-based coefficient selection.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.323-330
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• 1992

A Study of Image Compression Algorithm using DCT This paper describes the system that implement a JPEG(Joint Photographic Experts Group) algorithm based on DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform) uslng CCD kameva, Image Grabber, and IBM PC. After cosine transforms the acquisited image, this algorithm quantize and entropy encode the coefficients by JPEG code table. The coefficients are reconstructed by the Huffman decoding, dequantized procedure, and Inverse cosine transform. The results obtained from the impleulented system are as follows. (1) For effcient storage and easy implementation, this system save Image as a PCX formal (2) Thls system get 7:1 compression ratio(3.8 RMSE value) without large distortion. (3) With a low pass filtering, thls system eliminate high frequency components and get 20% enhanced compression ratio. (4) Thls system enhance the reconstructed Image using histogram modeling.

• 한국산업정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산업정보학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 발표논문집:21세기를 향한 정보통신 기술의 전망
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• pp.91-101
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• 1997

The demand for handling images in digital form has increased dramatically in recent years. Digital image compression is required to store and transmit mass information in different from general information. JPEG(Joint Photographic Experts Group) committee founded by CCITT and ISO is define the still-image standard compression/restoration algorithm. JPEG is proposed the standard of grayscale and color still-image compression/restoration. In the image quality, JPEG is applicable to the various applications in which compression is able to from 1/10 to 1/50 without the visible obstacle. In this paper, we proposed that the proposed method enhance the compression ratio which is reducing the higher frequency in order to increasing the spatial redundancy in the image. The proposed method is using the low pass filter in order to reducing the higher frequency. The low-pass filters are using the median filter and convolution filter in the spatial domain, FFT filter in the frequency domain. We acquired the additive compression ratio reducing the higher frequency using the low-pass filter.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.672-676
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• 2009

Polymide is widely used alignment material of recent commercial LCD panel structure. Generally, polyimide alignment material is classified soluble polyimide type and polyamic acid type with their main bond structure of solution state. specially, compared to polyamic acid alignment layer, soluble polyimide type alignment layer have excellent reliability during long term LCD driving cause of their high imidazation ratio(%), high voltage holding ratio(%) and low ion density. The other side, this type alignment materials has significant DC image stickicng side effect for using in-plane switching mode lcd structure cause of their slow DC discharging property. we applied inorganic salt to usual soluble polyimide type alignment layer and found out this technique had good DC image sticking property without any loss of reliability property in inplane switching LCD cell structure. This approach leads excellent DC image sticking property with maintaining high reliability property this approach confirmed improves an image sticking and a reliability simultaneously from the horizontality aligned LCD mode whose relatively bad image sticking property.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.972-974
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• 2009

This paper presents smart regional contrast enhancement technique of partitioned image for local dimming backlight on small-sized mobile display to reach two goals. One is to save the power consumption, and the other to improve contrast ratio of display image. Recently new advanced method is proposed, named local dimming method, that backlight LED is positioned on backside of the display panel. So it is important to partition an image by sub blocks and then post-processing independantly. This means regional contrast enhancement. After partitioning, we compare the mean luminance(Y) value of each sub-block image with the one of original whole image. If some blocks have the mean value lower than the one of whole image, they are processed with the proposed method and others are bypassed. Simultaneously the information of the processed blocks are transferred to BLC(Backlight LED Controller). And then the supply current of each backlight LED is reduced to realize the contrast ratio enhancement and at the same time to power consumption reduction. In addition, we verify this proposed method is free from blocking artifacts.