• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.231-238
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• 2017

Detecting small infrared targets from the low-SCR images at a long distance is very hard. The previous Local Contrast Method (LCM) algorithm based on the human visual system shows a superior performance of detecting small targets by a background suppression technique through local contrast measure. However, its slow processing speed due to the heavy multi-scale processing overhead is not suitable to a variety of real-time applications. This paper presents a lightweight real-time small target detection algorithm, called by the Improved Selective Local Contrast Method (ISLCM), to reduce the scale-invariant computational overhead. The proposed ISLCM applies the improved local contrast measure to the predicted selective region so that it may have a comparable detection performance as the previous LCM while guaranteeing low scale-invariant computational load by exploiting both adaptive scale estimation and small target feature feasibility. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce its computational overhead considerably while maintaining its detection performance compared with the previous LCM.

• 한국인쇄학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.37-49
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• 1996

The practical lith developer is a hydroquinone solution of moderate alkalinity and low free-sulfite ion concentration with potassium bromide as the restraining agent. In the study on composition of ilth developer to promote high sensitivity, high contrast and long term preservation or use, a new composition of lith developer, namely PK lith developer, was developed and of was found that PK lith developer was superior to the lith developer which was commercially available in terms of contrast, speed and preservation. This paper also describes studies on the addition of hdydrazine to PK lith developer, which have led to further improvements in the system.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.11-16
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 a-Se 기반 디지털 X-선 영상장치의 저대조도 특성을 평가하기 위하여 contrast-detail 곡선 해석을 수행하였다. 본 실험에 사용된 X-선 영상장치는 픽셀크기가 $139mm{\times}139mm$이고 유효면적이 $46.7cm{\times}46.7cm$인 a-Si TFT 기판 위에 500mm 두께의 광전도체가 코팅된 구조를 갖고 있다. Contrast-detail 곡선을 측정하기 위하여 우선 주어진 촬영조건(즉, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 kVp, and 16 mA.s)에서 상용 팬톰인 CDRAD 2.0을 사용하여 X-선 영상을 획득한 후, 그 영상으로부터 IQFinv 인자를 사용하여 그 특성을 최종 평가하였다. 평가된 IQFinv 값은 주어진 광 플루언스(즉, $1.8{\times}105$, $5.9{\times}105$, $11.3{\times}105$, $19.4{\times}105$, and $29.4{\times}105$ photons/$mm^2$)에서 각각 24.4, 35.3, 39.2, 41.5, 43.4으로 광 플루언스가 증가할수록 점진적으로 증가하였으며 이는 광 플루언스가 증가할수록 영상의 가독성이 향상됨을 나타낸다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.1762-1767
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• 2008

Image contrast of whole bacteria was compared in Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli depending on pre-stain suspension liquids by energy-filtering transmission electron microscopy. The two bacterial strains were suspended in three most commonly used liquids for negative staining (triple distilled water [DW], phosphate-buffered saline [PBS], and nutrient broth [NB]) and directly observed without staining or stained with neutralized potassium phosphotungstate (PTA), respectively. Even though in low contrast, unstained bacteria were observed owing to their inherent electron density and cell shape in zero-loss (elastic scattering) images. After being suspended in PBS, unstained bacteria appeared to have higher contrast and more refined periphery than DW-suspended ones, and extracellular appendage structures such as fimbriae and flagella could be discerned. The unstained bacteria appeared to be invariably surrounded with electron-lucent precipitates, possibly from PBS. As far as delineation of the structures, the combination of DW or PBS suspension with subsequent staining provided the most satisfactory results, as evidenced by the high contrast of bacterial morphology and appendage structures. However, after being suspended in NB and stained with PTA, bacteria often had too high contrast or poor staining, with electron-dense aggregates around the bacteria. These results suggest that suspension with concentrated organic aliquots including broth media before PTA staining could deteriorate image contrast, and should be used only in dilute form for visualizing bacterial morphology and appendage structures. Moreover the contrast enhancement of unstained bacteria by salt granules would be advantageous in demonstrating bacterial sorption of environmental particles like heavy metals, maintaining minimal contrast for cell imaging.

• 치과방사선
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.113-124
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• 1990

For the study of the influence of kilovoltage and exposure time on radiographic density and contrast, we measured radiographic density of aluminum step wedge which composed of contiguous 8 steps wedges of 2-16㎜ thickness with densitometer. Aluminum step wedge was radiographed on Kodak ultraspeed DF-58 and Ektaspeed EP-21 film with range of 60-90 kVp and 5-60 impulse and subject contrast of aluminum step wedge with constant radiographic density and image contrast percentage without radiographic density was evaluated. Then we evaluated the film quality of teeth and their surrounding structure according to the change of kVp and exposure time by score rating method. The obtained results were as follows: 1. Radiographic density was related to the change of kilovoltage, especially in increased exposure time. 2. With constant radiographic density, subject contrast of thin aluminum step wedges was greater in low kilovolt age than high kilovoltage, but kilovolt age had not great influence on subject contrast of thick aluminum step wedge. On the other hand, radiographic density difference between 2mm and 16mm aluminum step wedge was decreased according to in- creasing kilovoltage. 3. Without constant radiographic density, image contrast percentage was decreased with increasing kilovoltage, but was not related with the change of exposure time. 4. Radiographic contrast of teeth and their surrounding structure which was taken with the range of 60-90 kVp and 6-30 impulse had not great influence on film quality.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.337-346
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• 2015

Water body extraction based on backscatter information is an essential process to analyze floodaffected areas from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image. Water body in SAR image tends to have low backscatter values due to homogeneous surface of water, while non-water body has higher backscatter values than water body. Non-water body, however, may also have low backscatter values in high resolution SAR image such as Kompsat-5 image, depending on surface characteristic of the ground. The objective of this paper is to present a method to increase backscatter contrast between water body and non-water body and also to remove efficiently misclassified pixels beyond true water body area. We create an entropy image using a Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and classify the entropy image into water body and non-water body pixels by thresholding of the entropy image. In order to reduce the effect of threshold value, we also propose Water Body Texture Index (WBTI), which measures simultaneously the occurrence of repeated water body pixel pair and the uniformity of water body in the binary entropy image. The proposed method produced high overall accuracy of 99.00% and Kappa coefficient of 90.38% in water body extraction using Kompsat-5 image. The accuracy analysis indicates that the proposed WBTI method is less affected by the choice of threshold value and successfully maintains high overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient in wide threshold range.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.958-964
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• 2010

히스토그램 평활화는 가장 잘 알려진 명암비 향상기법이지만 밝기 값이 크게 변화해서 색의 왜곡과 노이즈가 두드러지고 색번짐 현상 같은 부작용이 발생한다. 이러한 문제들을 해결하기 위한 기존의 기법들은 유저가 영상마다 일일이 파라미터를 수정해야 하거나 다양한 영상에 대해 결과를 보장하지 못했다. 제안된 기법은 영상의 median값을 바탕으로 보정계수를 계산하고 히스토그램에서 가장 큰 빈도수를 기준으로 보정계수에 비례하여 나머지 히스토그램들을 보정한 뒤 평활화 한다. 제안한 방법의 결과영상은 각기 다른 특성을 가진 여러 가지 영상들에 대해 안정적으로 HE의 부작용들을 해결하였음을 알 수 있게 한다. 뿐만 아니라 연산이 복잡하지 않고, 보정계수가 자동적으로 계산되기 때문에 FPD에 직접 적용할 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2002년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.585-589
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 효과적인 특징 추출을 기반으로 한 계층적인 검색 시스템을 제안한다. 조명 변화 및 영상의 이동과 크기 변화 그리고 회전과 같은 기하학적 변형에도 강한 속성을 가지는 영상 검색을 할 수 있도록 사용자의 질의 영상을 웨이블릿(Wavelet) 변환을 한 후 동일한 크기의 부영역으로 나누어진 저대역 부밴드에서 칼라의 특징으로 추출된 모멘트와 질감 특징인 GLCM(Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix)의 Contrast를 사용해 유사 영상들의 1차 분류 과정을 거친다. 보다 정확한 검색을 수행하기 위해 1차 분류된 후보 영상들에 대해 고대역 부밴드에서 추출된 수평, 수직, 대각선 방향별 에너지(Energy)를 기반으로 한 에너지의 상대적인 성분 분포의 비교가 수행됨으로써 효율적인 영상 검색 결과를 보였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.73-78
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• 2005

DCT기반 압축기법에 의해 부호화된 영상은 양자화에 의한 여러 가지 화질열화요소가 포함되는데, 그중 인간 시각에 민감한 대비 왜곡은 화질 열화 요인으로서 가장 중요한 요인이다. 특히 저비트율에서 부호화된 영상의 경우 많은 고주파 성분이 양자화에 의하여 손실되기 때문에 좋은 화질을 갖는 영상을 복원할 수 없을 것이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 대비 왜곡을 포함하고 있는 부호화된 영상에 대해 DCT영역에서 대비를 개선시키는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 대비왜곡은 외곽선 주변에서 심하게 나타나기 때문에 DCT블록의 외곽선 포함 정도를 판단하여 문턱치보다 큰 블록은 다시 4개의 부블록으로 나누어 적용된다. 제안되는 방법은 모든 연산이 DCT 영역에서 수행되기 때문에 실시간 처리 응용분야에 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.339-345
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• 2021

Background: Ultrasound-guided caudal epidural injection (CEI) is limited in that it cannot confirm drug distribution at the target site without fluoroscopy. We hypothesized that visualization of solution flow through the inter-laminar space of the lumbosacral spine using color Doppler ultrasound alone would allow for confirmation of drug distribution. Therefore, we aimed to prospectively evaluate the usefulness of this method by comparing the color Doppler image in the paramedian sagittal oblique view of the lumbosacral spine (LS-PSOV) with the distribution of the contrast medium observed during fluoroscopy. Methods: Sixty-five patients received a 10-mL CEI of solution containing contrast medium under ultrasound guidance. During injection, flow was observed in the LSPSOV using color Doppler ultrasonography, following which it was confirmed using fluoroscopy. The presence of contrast image at L5-S1 on fluoroscopy was defined as "successful CEI." We then calculated prediction accuracy for successful CEI using color Doppler ultrasonography in the LS-PSOV. We also investigated the correlation between the distribution levels measured via color Doppler and fluoroscopy. Results: Prediction accuracy with color Doppler ultrasonography was 96.9%. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were 96.7%, 100%, 100%, and 60.0%, respectively. In 52 of 65 patients (80%), the highest level at which contrast image was observed was the same for both color Doppler ultrasonography and fluoroscopy. Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that color Doppler ultrasonography in the LS-PSOV is a new method for determining whether a drug solution reaches the lumbosacral region (i.e., the main target level) without the need for fluoroscopy.