• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.28-33
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• 2008

In a scanning electron microscope (SEM), outside acoustic noise causes image noise that distorts observations of the specimen being examined. A SEM that is less sensitive to acoustic noise is highly desirable. This paper investigates the image noise problem by addressing the mode shapes of the base plate and the transmission path of the acoustic noise and vibration. By arranging the position of the rib, a new SEM base plate was developed that had twisting as the 1st and 2nd modes. In those two twisting modes, vibration nodes existed near the center of the base plate where the specimen chamber is placed. Less vibration was transmitted to the chamber and to the specimen by the twisting modes compared to bending ones, which are the 2nd and 3rd modes for a rectangular plain base plate. An SEM with the developed base plate installed exhibited a significant reduction of image noise when exposed to acoustic noises below 250 Hz.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2021

Objective: Iterative reconstruction degrades image quality. Thus, further advances in image reconstruction are necessary to overcome some limitations of this technique in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scan of the chest. Deep-learning image reconstruction (DLIR) is a new method used to reduce dose while maintaining image quality. The purposes of this study was to evaluate image quality and noise of LDCT scan images reconstructed with DLIR and compare with those of images reconstructed with the adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction-Veo at a level of 30% (ASiR-V 30%). Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included 58 patients who underwent LDCT scan for lung cancer screening. Datasets were reconstructed with ASiR-V 30% and DLIR at medium and high levels (DLIR-M and DLIR-H, respectively). The objective image signal and noise, which represented mean attenuation value and standard deviation in Hounsfield units for the lungs, mediastinum, liver, and background air, and subjective image contrast, image noise, and conspicuity of structures were evaluated. The differences between CT scan images subjected to ASiR-V 30%, DLIR-M, and DLIR-H were evaluated. Results: Based on the objective analysis, the image signals did not significantly differ among ASiR-V 30%, DLIR-M, and DLIR-H (p = 0.949, 0.737, 0.366, and 0.358 in the lungs, mediastinum, liver, and background air, respectively). However, the noise was significantly lower in DLIR-M and DLIR-H than in ASiR-V 30% (all p < 0.001). DLIR had higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) than ASiR-V 30% (p = 0.027, < 0.001, and < 0.001 in the SNR of the lungs, mediastinum, and liver, respectively; all p < 0.001 in the CNR). According to the subjective analysis, DLIR had higher image contrast and lower image noise than ASiR-V 30% (all p < 0.001). DLIR was superior to ASiR-V 30% in identifying the pulmonary arteries and veins, trachea and bronchi, lymph nodes, and pleura and pericardium (all p < 0.001). Conclusion: DLIR significantly reduced the image noise in chest LDCT scan images compared with ASiR-V 30% while maintaining superior image quality.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.965-968
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• 2016

본 논문은 PDF 웨이블릿 변환과 TVG 필터를 이용한 Sonar Image 의 스펙클 노이즈 제거에 관한 연구이다. TVG 필터는 해저면 바닥의 불규칙한 물체를 식별하는데 방해되는 Speckle Noise를 시간적이고 귀납적인 관찰의 결과로 얻어진 Gain 값으로 제거 한다. 실험 결과, 제안된 필터는 Speckle Noise를 약 90% 제거하여 보다 향상된 해저 영상 식별이 가능하다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권11호
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• pp.2594-2600
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• 2020

A gamma camera system using radionuclide has a functional imaging technique and is frequently used in the field of nuclear medicine. In the gamma camera, it is extremely important to improve the image quality to ensure accurate detection of diseases. In this study, we designed a blind-deconvolution framework after a noise-reduction algorithm based on a non-local mean, which has been shown to outperform conventional methodologies with regard to the gamma camera system. For this purpose, we performed a simulation using the Monte Carlo method and conducted an experiment. The image performance was evaluated by visual assessment and according to the intensity profile, and a quantitative evaluation using a normalized noise-power spectrum was performed on the acquired image and the blind-deconvolution image after noise reduction. The result indicates an improvement in image performance for gamma camera images when our proposed algorithm is used.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.721-740
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• 2019

영상처리 분야에서 중요한 분야인 잡음 제거는 통계적인 접근이 필요하지만 잡음에 대한 특정한 분포를 가정하기 어려우며 지역적 특징을 반영하는 공간 필터는 소표본에 해당하므로 모수적인 방법으로 접근할 수 없다. 1차 영상 미분과 2차 영상 미분은 영상에 포함된 잡음 수준에 따라 확연한 차이를 보이며 캐니 에지 검출기를 사용하면 보다 명확히 알 수 있다. 잡음 수준을 통계적으로 확인하고자 Fligner-Killeen 검정을 진행하고 붓스트랩 방법을 사용하였으며 추정된 잡음의 수준을 베타분포의 누적분포함수를 이용하여 0과 1사이의 값을 갖도록 하였다. 본 연구에서는 영상에 포함된 잡음 수준을 고려하는 잡음 제거 알고리즘을 제시하고자 한다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 추계종합학술대회 B
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• pp.455-458
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• 2008

이전의 정보화는 글이나 혹은 음성에 의존했다면, 현대사회의 정보전송은 다양한 영상 매체를 이용하여 전송하고 있다. 휴대폰과 TV, 컴퓨터는 대표적인 영상신호를 이용하는 매개체로서 현대사회를 이루는 큰 축이라고 할 수 있다. 이러한 이유로 중요성이 부각되어지는 영상 신호의 개발은 크게 압축 및 인식 그리고 복원 등 많은 부분에서 연구가 되어지고 있다. 노이즈는 이러한 신호를 이용함에 따라 필연적으로 발생되며, 발생되는 노이즈로서는 임펄스 노이즈(Impulse Noise)와 AWGN(Additive White Gaussian Noise)가 대표적이다. 이러한 노이즈를 줄이기 위하여 다양한 필터가 개발되고 있으며, 각기 그 잡음의 성향에 따라 다른 필터가 사용되어진다. 그러나 잡음은 신호에서 독립적으로 발생되어지는 것이 아니라 중첩되어 발생되어진다. 본 논문은 이러한 중첩된 잡음을 제거하고자 영상필터를 제안하였으며, 이를 기존의 다른 필터와 비교하였다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.573-579
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• 2001

Wavelet thresholding is a method for he reduction of noise in image. Wavelet coefficients of image are correlated in local characterization. Thee correlations also appear in he original pixel representation of the image, and they do not follow from the characterizations of the wavelet transform. In this paper, we compare noise-free distributions of Bayes approach to improve the classical threshold algorithm.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.357-364
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• 2014

전산화단층촬영장치의 영상재구성방법으로 필터보정역투영법이 광범위하게 사용되고 있다. 평행빔과 부채살빔의 재구성에 사용되는 투영에 잡음이 포함되었을 때 재구성 된 영상의 잡음을 살펴보았다. 평행빔과 부채살 구조에서 각각 360개, 720개의 투영으로 $512{\times}512$ 크기로 Visual C++을 이용하여 영상재구성하였고, 원본 Shepp-Logan 두부 모형을 매우 잘 복원한다는 것을 확인하였다. 필터보정역투영법의 현실적인 접근(유한한 투영 개수)으로 인해 입력 잡음이 없어도 영상재구성 과정에서 잡음이 발생하였다. 입력 잡음비 0.5% 이하에서 잡음이 빠르게 증가하기 때문에 CT 장치의 잡음 제거 기술 및 영상처리 기법의 개발이 필요할 것이다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.118.5-118
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• 2001

This paper describes an image processing method for inspecting the surface outlook of high speed moving plates. Noise free image and a new real time processing methods are required to inspect the surface outlook of the high speed moving plates in real time. It is difficult to get a noise free image due to a signal noise, a light noise and background image in typical industrial factory. Thus, pre-processing techniques should be required to get a good image and produce so many time steps to proceed the image data. The objective of this research is to get image on the surface of the moving plates with a speed of 1m/sec and to detect some defaults on the surface image. So, the pre-processing techniques ...

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.1004-1019
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• 2021

To solve the problems of the low image contrast, fuzzy edge details and edge details missing in noisy image fusion, this study proposes a noisy infrared and visible light image fusion algorithm based on non-subsample contourlet transform (NSCT) and an improved bilateral filter, which uses NSCT to decompose an image into a low-frequency component and high-frequency component. High-frequency noise and edge information are mainly distributed in the high-frequency component, and the improved bilateral filtering method is used to process the high-frequency component of two images, filtering the noise of the images and calculating the image detail of the infrared image's high-frequency component. It can extract the edge details of the infrared image and visible image as much as possible by superimposing the high-frequency component of infrared image and visible image. At the same time, edge information is enhanced and the visual effect is clearer. For the fusion rule of low-frequency coefficient, the local area standard variance coefficient method is adopted. At last, we decompose the high- and low-frequency coefficient to obtain the fusion image according to the inverse transformation of NSCT. The fusion results show that the edge, contour, texture and other details are maintained and enhanced while the noise is filtered, and the fusion image with a clear edge is obtained. The algorithm could better filter noise and obtain clear fused images in noisy infrared and visible light image fusion.