• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.183-190
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of clinical image quality of panoramic radiographs and to analyze the parameters that influence the overall image quality. Materials and Methods: Korean dental clinics were asked to provide three randomly selected panoramic radiographs. An oral and maxillofacial radiology specialist evaluated those images using our self-developed Clinical Image Quality Evaluation Chart. Three evaluators classified the overall image quality of the panoramic radiographs and evaluated the causes of imaging errors. Results: A total of 297 panoramic radiographs were collected from 99 dental hospitals and clinics. The mean of the scores according to the Clinical Image Quality Evaluation Chart was 79.9. In the classification of the overall image quality, 17 images were deemed 'optimal for obtaining diagnostic information,' 153 were 'adequate for diagnosis,' 109 were 'poor but diagnosable,' and nine were 'unrecognizable and too poor for diagnosis'. The results of the analysis of the causes of the errors in all the images are as follows: 139 errors in the positioning, 135 in the processing, 50 from the radiographic unit, and 13 due to anatomic abnormality. Conclusion: Panoramic radiographs taken at local dental clinics generally have a normal or higher-level image quality. Principal factors affecting image quality were positioning of the patient and image density, sharpness, and contrast. Therefore, when images are taken, the patient position should be adjusted with great care. Also, standardizing objective criteria of image density, sharpness, and contrast is required to evaluate image quality effectively.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.397-400
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• 2004

Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) is an active micro­wave instrument that performs high-resolution observation under almost all weather conditions. Although there are many advantages of SAR instrument, many complicated steps are involved in order to generate SAR image products. Many research and algorithms have been proposed to process radar signal and to increase the quality of SAR products. However, it is hard to find research which compare the quality of SAR products generated with different algorithms and processing methods. In our previous research, a SAR processing s/w was developed for a ground station. In addition, quality assessment procedures and their test parameters inside a SAR processor was proposed. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the quality of SAR images generated from the developed SAR processing s/w. However, If there are no direct measurements such as radar reflector or scattering field measurement values it is difficult to compare SAR images generated with different methods. An alternative procedures and parameters for SAR image quality evaluation are presented and the problems involved in the comparison methods are discussed. Experiments based on real data have been conducted to evaluate and analyze quality of SAR images.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2016

The cabin service quality expected by customers during the air travel can be the top priority to choose an airline. Customers' perception about cabin service quality evaluation are important for developing differentiated cabin service strategies of airlines, so this study aims to analyze the effect of the cabin service quality on airline image and customer loyalty. For achieving this purpose, literature study and empirical study on cabin service, customer loyalty and airline image were performed together. As a results of research, a high level of the cabin service quality provided by airlines significantly influenced positive images of airlines and customer loyalty. And customers' positive image towards airlines practically had a substantial influence on the improvement of customer loyalty. These study results would help in creating positive images of airlines and securing customer loyalty by developing differentiated and improved cabin service quality strategies of each airline in the limitless competition of the aviation service industry.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2004

MDCT는 비침습적인 방법으로 관상동맥 질환을 검사하는데 유용하다고 알려져 있다. 하지만 영상의 질에 있어서 환자의 심장박동이 결정적인 영향을 주게 된다. 특히 심장박동이 불규칙하거나 조기 심실수축 환자일 경우 영상을 재구성하는데 있어 왜곡 현상이 증가하여 진단에 어려움을 초래한다. 최근 본원에서 심장박동이 불규칙한 환자에서 영상 재구성시 불규칙한 R-R 간격을 조정한 후 얻은 영상이 artifact가 감소하는 현상을 경험한 바 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 다양한 교정 방법(disable, inesrt, R-R interval 교정)이 영상의 질에 어떤 영향이 있는지를 알아보고자 한다. 심박동이 불규칙한 24명의 환자에서 교정방법에 따라 영상을 재구성한 결과 R-R Interval 조정에서 통계학적으로 유의한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다(p<0.05). 본 연구에서는 R-R Interval 조정에서 가장 우수한 영상을 얻을 수 있었으며, 향후 심장 질환의 진단에 도움을 줄 수 있는 기초연구로서 그 가치가 충분하리라 사료된다.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.53-63
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• 2005

We propose a fuzzy neural network (FNN) theory capable of deciding the quality of a road image prior to extracting lane-related information. The accuracy of lane-related information obtained by image processing depends on the quality of the raw images, which can be classified as good or bad according to how visible the lane marks on the images are. Enhancing the accuracy of the information by an image-processing algorithm is limited due to noise corruption which makes image processing difficult. The FNN, on the other hand, decides whether road images are good or bad with respect to the degree of noise corruption. A cumulative distribution function (CDF), a function of edge histogram, is utilized to extract input parameters from the FNN according to the fact that the shape of the CDF is deeply correlated to the road image quality. A suitability analysis shows that this deep correlation exists between the parameters and the image quality. The input pattern vector of the FNN consists of nine parameters in which eight parameters are from the CDF and one is from the intensity distribution of raw images. Experimental results showed that the proposed FNN system was quite successful. We carried out simulations with real images taken in various lighting and weather conditions, and obtained successful decision-making about $99\%$ of the time.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.182-188
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 그래디언트 히스토그램을 기반으로 하는 영상 품질 평가 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 이는 목표 영상의 그래디언트 영상을 히스토그램으로 나타낼 경우 영상의 특성을 잘 나타낸다는 장점을 이용하였다. 제안한 방법에서 영상의 품질은 목표 영상에서 얻어진 그래디언트 히스토그램의 기울기에 의해 평가되고, 그래디언트 히스토그램을 대표하는 선의 기울기는 RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus)에 의해 측정된다. LIVE 영상 품질 평가 데이터베이스를 사용한 실험 결과를 통하여 제안한 알고리즘이 현존하는 다른 알고리즘에 비해 실제 사람의 영상에 대한 평가와 유사하다는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.6-13
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• 2012

An improved algorithm for image quality assessment is presented. First a simple model of human visual system, consisting of a nonlinear function and a 2-D filter, processes the input images. This filter has one user-defined parameter, whose value depends on the reference image. This way the algorithm can adapt to different scenarios. In the next step the average value of locally computed correlation coefficients between the two processed images is found. This criterion is closely related to the way in which human observer assesses image quality. Finally, image quality measure is computed as the average value of locally computed correlation coefficients, adjusted by the average correlation coefficient between the reference and error images. By this approach the proposed measure differentiates between the random and signal dependant distortions, which have different effects on human observer. Performance of the proposed quality measure is illustrated by examples involving images with different types of degradation.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.85-90
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• 2000

CRT디스플레이의 화질 평가에는 위도, 콘트라스트, addressability, 시청거리 등의 다양한 물리적 특성치가 사용된다. 그러나, 최종적인 CRT디스플레이 화질의 비교·평가는 물리적 특성치가 아닌 실제 사용자가 느끼는 화질 즉, 주관적 인지 화질에 의해 이루어진다. 본 논문에서는 4종류 CRT모니터의 SQRI(SQuare Root Integral) 값과 다수의 피험자에 의한 주관적 화질 평가 점수와의 상관성이 비교되었다. 그리고, 이러한 SQRI법의 주관적 화질 평가 척도로서의 타당성을 바탕으로 모니터의 다양한 물리적 특성치가 주관적 화질에 미치는 영향이 검토되었다.

• 대한치과의사협회지
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.139-146
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• 2014

The quality assurance program of a panoramic radiography is been discussed in two ways: phantom image tests and clinical image quality assurance tests. Methods and standards of each of the test are presented, which efforts guarantee a proper quality of image, improve standard of dental care and decrease radiation exposure.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2008년도 International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.53-56
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• 2008

Generally, the quality of satellite images is expressed by GSD (Ground Sample Distance), MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) and SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio). However, these factors are technology-oriented and do not explain interpretability of satellite images. We need a standardized index which shows standard of interpretability. In this study, we estimated NIIRS (National Imagery Interpretability Rating Scale) through the GIQE (General Image Quality Equation) which is able to judge image interpretability with the standardized index. Traditionally, NIIRS has been determined manually by specialized image analysts. We used the GIQE in order to reduce inefficiency and high costs cause by manual interpretation and to produce accurate NIIRS. For monitoring image degradation, we estimated GIQE physical parameters from image analysis and carried out time series analysis about the quality of the KOMPSAT-1 images. On all of the tests, we were able to identify the image degradation due to the changing time. This indicates that NIIRS derived from GIQE will be used for image degradation indicator.