• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.144-148
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• 2005

The goal of this work is to develop and test a robot-assisted surgery system for spinal fusion. The system is composed of a robot, a surgical planning system, and a navigation system. It plays the role of assisting surgeons for inserting a pedicle screw in the spinal fusion procedure. Compared to conventional methods fer spinal fusion, the proposed surgical procedure ensures minimum invasion and better accuracy by using robot and image information. The robot plays the role of positioning and guiding needles, drills, and other surgical instruments or conducts automatic boring and screwing. Pre-operative CT images and intra-operative fluoroscopic images are integrated to provide the surgeon with information for surgical planning. Several experiments employing the developed robotic surgery system are conducted. The experimental results confirmed that the system is not only able to guide the surgical tools by accurately pointing and orienting the specified location, but also successfully compensate the movement of the patient due to his/her respiration.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.154-156
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• 2005

We present a case of chondroblastoma in the thoracic vertebra. A 40-year-old patient with upper back pain and lower extremity weakness was admitted to our clinic. On neurological examination, the patient exhibited lower extremity spastic paraparesis. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mass infiltrating the 7th thoracic vertebra and its adjacent structures with concomitant compression of the epidural space. After right upper lung tuberculoma was resected through the transthoracic approach, T7 total corpectomy was done with anterior stabilization using a MESH cage and T7 rib bone graft. Two weeks after the first operation, remained part of vertebra was removed and posterior stabilization was performed using a pedicle screw fixation and cross linkage bar with the assistance of the navigation system. The final pathologic diagnosis of the vertebral lesion was benign chondroblastoma.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2341-2343
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• 2002

This paper describes a vision-based line recognition and control of driving direction for an AGV(autonomous guided vehicle). As navigation guide, black stripe attached on the corridor is used. Binary image of guide stripe captured by a CCD camera is used. For detect the guideline quickly and extractly, we use for variable thresholding algorithm. this low-cost line-tracking system is efficiently using pc-based real time vision processing. steering control is studied through controller with guide-line angle error. This method is tested via a typical agv with a single camera in laboratory environment.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제45권7호
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• pp.600-609
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• 2017

탐색기의 센서 영상을 이용하여 최종 표적에 대한 선정을 수동 또는 자동으로 할 수 있는 표적 관리 모의 시스템을 개발하였다. 모의 시스템은 비행체 시스템과 지상 시스템으로 구성하였다. 비행체 시스템은 비행체의 운동역학과 센서 영상을 모의하고 지상 시스템은 표적 템플릿 모의와 지상 제어기를 모의를 수행한다. 비행체의 운동역학은 의사 6자유도를 기반으로 비례항법유도기법을 사용한다. 탐색기의 센서 영상은 알려진 적외선 영상 렌더링 기법을 이용하여 직접 개발하였으며 상용 프로그램과 비교하여 검증하였다. 지상제어기는 사용자 편의를 위해 임무에 관련된 정보를 가능한 많이 전시할 수 있는 사용자 인터페이스로 구성하였다. 최종적으로 표적 격추 임무 모의를 통해 요구하는 성능에 만족함을 확인하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2003

본 연구는 영상처리에 의한 문자인식에 관한 연구로써 기존의 AGV(Automated Guided Vehicle)가 가이드라인으로 사용하는 마그넷테이프나 전기와이어 등을 사용하지 않고 칼라테이프를 가이드라인으로 사용하였다. AGV는 주어진 경로를 따라 주행하는 것과 목적지를 판별할 수 있는 마크나 숫자 등 표식을 인식하여 정지 동작을 하는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 AGV가 정지할 때 사용되는 마크는 자동차 번호판과 같은 폰트, 같은 크기의 청색숫자를 사용하였다 복도 환경에서 황색 주행라인과 청색의 숫자 마크를 설치하고 Color 특성만을 추출하여 라인을 탐색하여 주행하면서 DP패턴 매칭으로 숫자를 100％ 인식하여 일시적으로 정지하는 영상처리 기법과 AGV주행결과를 제시하였다.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.263-268
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• 2015

Due to an increased sitting time in work, lumbar disc disease is one of the most frequent diseases in modern days, and this occasionally requires surgery for treatment. Endoscopic disc surgery, one of the common disc surgeries, requires a process of inserting a guide needle to the target disc for which the insertion path is manually planned by drawing lines on the patient's skin while monitoring the fluoroscopic view of the lumbar. Such procedure inevitably exposes both surgeon and patient to the fluoroscopy radiation emitted from the c-arm for a long time. To reduce the radiation exposure time, this study proposes a computer assisted method of calculating the 3D guide needle path by using 2D c-arm images of the disc in 3 different angles. Additionally, a method of the guide robot control based on the 3D needle path was developed by implementing the Hand-eye Calibration method to calculate the transformation matrix between the c-arm and robot base coordinate systems. The proposed system was then tested for its accuracy.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.155-160
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• 2014

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to develop a workstation computer that allowed intraoperative touchless control of diagnostic and surgical images by a surgeon, and to report the preliminary experience with the use of the system in a series of cases in which dental surgery was performed. Materials and Methods: A custom workstation with a new motion sensing input device (Leap Motion) was set up in order to use a natural user interface (NUI) to manipulate the imaging software by hand gestures. The system allowed intraoperative touchless control of the surgical images. Results: For the first time in the literature, an NUI system was used for a pilot study during 11 dental surgery procedures including tooth extractions, dental implant placements, and guided bone regeneration. No complications were reported. The system performed very well and was very useful. Conclusion: The proposed system fulfilled the objective of providing touchless access and control of the system of images and a three-dimensional surgical plan, thus allowing the maintenance of sterile conditions. The interaction between surgical staff, under sterile conditions, and computer equipment has been a key issue. The solution with an NUI with touchless control of the images seems to be closer to an ideal. The cost of the sensor system is quite low; this could facilitate its incorporation into the practice of routine dental surgery. This technology has enormous potential in dental surgery and other healthcare specialties.