• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.439-443
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• 2019

To improve the noise characteristics, software-based noise reduction algorithms are widely used in cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) pixelated semiconductor gamma camera system. The purpose of this study was to develop an improved median filtering algorithm using a thresholding method for noise reduction in a CZT pixelated semiconductor gamma camera system. The gamma camera system simulated is a CZT pixelated semiconductor detector with a pixel-matched parallel-hole collimator and the spatial resolution phatnom was designed with the Geant4 Application for Tomography Emission (GATE). In addition, a noise reduction algorithm with a median filter using an improved thresholding method is developed and we applied our proposed algorithm to an acquired spatial resolution phantom image. According to the results, the proposed median filter improved the noise characteristics compared to a conventional median filter. In particular, the average for normalized noise power spectrum, contrast to noise ratio, and coefficient of variation results using the proposed median filter were 10, 1.11, and 1.19 times better than results using conventional median filter, respectively. In conclusion, our results show that the proposed median filter using improved the thresholding method results in high imaging performance when applied in a CZT semiconductor gamma camera system.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.222-228
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• 2023

This study aimed to analyze the applicability of the improved median filter in positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance (MR) fusion images based on parallel imaging using generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisition (GRAPPA). In this study, a PET/MR fusion imaging system based on a 3.0T magnetic field and ¹⁸F radioisotope were used. An improved median filter that can set a mask of the median value more efficiently than before was modeled and applied to the acquired image. As quantitative evaluation parameters of the noise level, the contrast to noise ratio (CNR) and coefficient of variation (COV) were calculated. Additionally, no-reference-based evaluation parameters were used to analyze the overall image quality. We confirmed that the CNR and COV values of the PET/MR fusion images to which the improved median filter was applied improved by approximately 3.32 and 2.19 times on average, respectively, compared to the noisy image. In addition, the no-reference-based evaluation results showed a similar trend for the noise-level results. In conclusion, we demonstrated that it can be supplemented by using an improved median filter, which suggests the problem of image quality degradation of PET/MR fusion images that shortens scan time using GRAPPA.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.195-208
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• 2004

히스토그램은 여러 가지 응용적인 측면에서 매우 유용한 방법이며, 단순한 계산법과 편리성이 강조되면서, 오늘날 디지털 이미지 프로세싱에서는 기본적인 방법이 되었다. 하지만 히스토그램을 사용하는 방법의 근본적인 한계점은 영상에서 픽셀의 공간적인 위치 정보를 없애 버린다는 것이다. 본 논문은 공간적인 위치정보를 포함한 히스토그램(공간 히스토그램)을 제시하여 영상을 재해석한다. 또한 그 결과를 이용하여 레벨 순서별 Recursive 메디안 필터를 구현 하였다. 제안한 Recursive 메디안 필터는 기존의 Recursive 메디안 필터와 비교 했을 때, 에지 보존 측면에서 상당 부분 개선된 결과를 보였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권9호
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• pp.3380-3389
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• 2022

We evaluated the performance of an improved hybrid median filter (IHMF) applied to X-ray computed tomography (CT) images obtained using a high-resolution photon-counting cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detector. To study how the proposed approach improves the image quality, we measured the noise levels and the overall CT-image quality. We established a CZT imaging system with a detector length of 5.12 cm and thickness of 0.3 cm and acquired phantom images. To evaluate the efficacy of the proposed filter, we first modeled two conventional median filters. Subsequently, we were able to achieve a normalized noise power spectrum result of ~10^-8 mm², and furthermore, the proposed method improved the contrast-to-noise ratio by a factor of ~1.51 and the coefficient of variation by 1.55 relative to the counterpart values of the no-filter image. In addition, the IHMF exhibited the best performance among the three filters considered as regards the peak signal-to-noise ratio and no-reference-based image-quality evaluation parameters. Thus, our results demonstrate that the IHMF approach provides a superior image performance over conventional median filtering methods when applied to actual CZT X-ray CT images.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권9호
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• pp.429-434
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• 2006

In this paper, detection based - adaptive windowed nonlinear filter(DB-AWNF) is proposed for removing salt-pepper noise in infrared image. This filter is composed of impulse detector and window-size-variable median filters. Impulse detector checks whether current pixel is impulse or not using range function and nonlinear location estimator. If impulse is detected, current pixel is filtered according to four kinds of local masks by use of median filter. If not, current pixel is delivered to output like identity filter. In Qualitative view, the proposed could have removed heavy corrupted noise up to 30% and reserved the details of image. In quantitative view, PSNR was measured. The proposed could have about 12-31[dB] more improved performance than those of median $(3{\times}3)$ filter and 13-29[dB] more improved performance than those of median $(5{\times}5)$ filter.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.151-165
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• 2010

영상은 잡음센서이나 채널 전송에러에 의해 생기는 임펄스 잡음에 의해 자주 오염된다. 본 논문은 영상에서 이런 임펄스 잡음을 제거하는 방법에 대해 논의하고자 한다. 제안된 잡음제거는 SVM(Support Vector Machine)과 개선된 Adaptive Median 필터에 의해 이루어진다. SVM에 의해 영상에서 잡음픽셀여부를 검출하고 검출된 잡음픽셀은 개선된 Adaptive Median 필터에 의해 새로운 픽셀값으로 대체한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 영상 실험을 통하여 salt-and-pepper 임펄스 잡음과 random-valued 임펄스 잡음을 고려하여 기존의 잡음제거 방법들과 정성적이고 MAE, PSNR를 통한 정량적인 비교를 하였다. 실험결과 제안된 방법은 잡음 제거와 미세한 부분에 대한 보존력이 뛰어나고 특히, 많이 오염된 영상에 대해서도 상당한 잡음제거 성능을 보였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권10호
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• pp.2328-2333
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• 2020

The filter technique was applied to noise images, as noise is the significant factor that cause poor image quality due to lower photon counting. The purpose of this study is to confirm that image quality can be improved using the median modified Wiener filter (MMWF) technique; this is achieved via a National Electrical Manufacturers Association International Electrotechnical Commission body phantom with four large spheres that are filled with the ^99mTc radioisotope when evaluating the image quality. Conventional filters such as Wiener, Gaussian, and median filters were designed, and signal to noise ratio, coefficient of variation, and contrast to noise ratio were used as the evaluation parameters. The improvement in the image quality was in the following order, from the least to the highest improvement, in all cases: Wiener filter, Gaussian filter, median filter, and the MMWF technique. The results show that the image quality was improved from 20.6 to 65.5%, 7.4-40.3%, and 12.7-44.7% for the SNR, COV, and CNR values, respectively, when using the MMWF technique, compared with the use of conventional filters. In conclusion, our results demonstrated that the MMWF technique is useful for reducing the noise distribution in gamma camera images.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.99-109
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• 1996

Though median filter is used for removing noise and smoothing image. But, the result of it has distortion around edge. And then, this paper proposes new noise removing algorithm by recursive morphological processing. Basic operation is same each other, but there is some different processing method between recursive morphology and general morphology theory. This recursive morphological filter can be viewed as the weighted order static filter, and then it has a weighted SE(structuring element). Especially using this algorithm to remove the 10% gaussian noise, this paper confirmed that PSNR is improved about 0.642~1.5757 db reserving edge well better than the results of the traditional median filter.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.842-851
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• 1996

Median filter(MF) has often been applied to color or gray images as a noise fiilter in image processing . Application of MF to binary images was tried in this study. For binary images, MF not only can remove noise but can also work as an indicator showing the dominant color in a region which is called window . Fro example, MF can be used to categorize clusters and to detect interested parts of an object. In other words, MF can also be used to remove unnecessary parts. The function of MF can be intensified by introducing a thresholding value, which is determined by the size of the interested part of an object. This improved MF for binary images is called the modified median filter(MMF), and its applicability to grade produce will be discussed in this paper.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.989-995
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• 2013

영상전송 등의 과정에서 임펄스 잡음에 의한 영상의 열화가 발생하며, 이러한 잡음을 제거하기 위해 활발한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 현재 대표적인 임펄스 잡음제거 방법에는 SM 필터(Standard Median Filter)가 있지만, SM 필터는 임펄스 잡음 밀도가 커짐에 따라 에지 영역에 오류를 나타낸다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 영상의 에지를 보존하기 위해 또한 영상의 왜곡을 줄이기 위해 변형된 적응 메디안 필터 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, 시뮬레이션 결과 제안한 알고리즘은 여러 영역에서 모두 우수한 결과를 나타내었고, 평가기준으로 PSNR을 사용하였다.