• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.07a
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• pp.223-224
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 축형 척추관절염으로 발전할 수 있는 천장관절염 환자들을 진단하기 위해 장골의 관심영역을 자동 생성할 수 있는 세그멘테이션 방법을 제안한다. 다양한 MRI 기기로부터 얻은 천장관절염 환자의 영상에서 장골의 GT(Ground Truth)를 생성하였으며, 대장 용종 검출을 위한 세그멘테이션 모델인 PraNet과 지역 특징 간의 표현 능력을 활용할 수 있는 Position Attention Module을 사용하여 유의미한 성능 향상을 보여주었다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.266-271
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• 2017

In this study, we tried to improve the reproducibility of signal intensity by applying DOTS method. The study was conducted on 30 patients who had undergone hepatic screening because of poor reproducibility and decreased signal intensity. The images were acquired before and after injection of contrast media and then post-processed by DOTS methods. Signal intensity was compared and evaluated. The results showed that the signal intensity of the images was 183.3% ($1038.0{\pm}70.7$ before application, $2940.7{\pm}179.6$ after application) and 1118.4% ($444.1{\pm}92.4$, $5410.5{\pm}168.4$ after application). This is a significant improvement in the fact that the reproducibility of MRI) was changed by the DOTS method, which is a post-processing method.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.329-334
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• 2019

This study was purpose to quantitative evaluation of noise power spectrum(NPS) and studied the quantitative evaluation and characteristics of modulation transfer function(MTF) by obtain the optimal edge image by using Coil in magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) equipment through Fujita theory using edge method. The MRI equipment was used (Tim AVANTO 1.5T, Siemense healthcare system, Germany) and the head matrix coil were 12channels(elements) receive coil. The NPS results of showed the best value of 0.004 based on the T2 Nyquist frequency of $1.0mm^{-1}$, and the MTF results of showed that the T1 and T2 values were generally better than the T1 CE and T1 CE FC values. The characteristics of this study were to explain the characteristic method of image quality evaluation in general. To present the quantitative evaluation process and results in the evaluation of MRI image characteristics in radiology.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.961-968
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• 2022

Rotator cuff tears are a leading cause of shoulder pain in adults. Due to the increase in social activities, the number of patients complaining of shoulder pain is increasing, and interest in shoulder diseases is also increasing. With the development of ultrasound equipment, the sensitivity and specificity of diagnosis are high, and it is used to diagnose rotator cuff tears in musculoskeletal disease. Ultrasound is recognized as a complementary method to MRI examination in rotator cuff tears. Therefore, this study aimed to find out the diagnostic usefulness of ultrasound and MRI examinations in the diagnosis of shoulder rotator cuff tears.A retrospective analysis was performed on 262 patients who were diagnosed with final rotator cuff damage by arthroscopy after completing ultrasound and MRI examinations. Sensitivity, feature, positive predictive value, image predictive value, and touch were disassembled for the test results. In addition, the degree of clavicular tear was scored and recorded in 5 stages. Ultrasound examination was similar to MRI examination results for both full-thickness and partial tears, and there was no statistically significant difference. Partial tear test results showed higher positive predictive value and accuracy than MRI test. In conclusion, ultrasound can be fully utilized as a screening test for rotator cuff disease, and it is thought that it will be selected and used clinically according to the patient's constitution and situation.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.91-100
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• 1998

In magnetic resonance imaging, the fast spin echo imaging technique is a widely used clinical imaging method. since its scanning time is much shorter than the conventional spin echo imaging and it gives the almost same image quality. However, the fast spin echo technique has two times longer imaging time for the dual echo acquisition which can obtain a spin density image and a T-give the same qulity images at the single echo imaging time. T he proposed technique reduces the imaging time by overlapping most of were obtained at the 0.3T permanent MRI system are presented.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.181-184
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• 2016

Short inversion time inversion recovery (STIR) is widely used for spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because the pulse sequence of STIR is insensitive to magnetic field inhomogeneity and can be used to scan a large field of view. In this case report, we present a case of spinal epidural hematoma with unexpected signal decrease on a STIR image. The MRI showed an epidural mass that appeared with high signal intensity on both T1- and T2-weighted images. However, a signal decrease was encountered on the STIR image. This nonspecific decrease of signal in tissue with a short T1 relaxation time that is similar to that of fat (i.e., hemorrhage) could lead to a diagnostic pitfall; one could falsely diagnose this decrease of signal as fat instead of hemorrhage. Awareness of the nonselective signal suppression achieved with STIR pulse sequences may avert an erroneous diagnosis in image interpretation.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.494-504
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• 2002

Volume rendering is a method of displaying volumetric data as a sequence two-dimensional image. Because this algorithm has an advantage of visualizing structures within objects, it has recently been used to analyze medical images i.e, MRI, PET, and SPECT. In this paper. we suggested a method for creating images easily from sampled volumetric data and applied the interpolation method to medical images. Additionally, we implemented and applied two kinds of interpolation methods to improve the image quality, linear interpolation and cubic interpolation at the sampling stage. Subsequently, we compared the results of volume rendered data using a transfer function. We anticipate a significant contribution to diagnosis through image reconstruction using a volumetric data set, because volume rendering techniques of medical images are the result of 3-dimensional data.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.63-66
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• 2019

Due to the development of medical imaging technology, different imaging technologies provide a large amount of effective information. However, different imaging method caused the limitations of information integrity by using single type of image. Combining different image together so that doctor can obtain the information from medical image comprehensively. Image registration algorithm based on mutual information has become one of the hotspots in the field of image registration with its high registration accuracy and wide applicability. Because the information theory-based registration technology is not dependent on the gray value difference of the image, and it is very suitable for multimodal medical image registration. However, the method based on mutual information has a robustness problem. The essential reason is that the mutual information itself is not have enough information between the pixel pairs, so that the mutual information is unstable during the registration process. A large number of local extreme values are generated, which finally cause mismatch. In order to overcome the shortages of mutual information registration method, this paper proposes a registration method combined with image spatial structure information and mutual information.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.111-120
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• 2020

Research should be actively conducted for the ability of X-ray equipment and Retrospective image analysis of X-ray equipment used in hospitals. Retrospective image analysis of X-ray machines, CT and MRI of radiology and medical equipment has been actively conducted. However, image quality measurement using angiography equipment of angiography room is mostly measured with phantom, and image quality measurement on image after being taken by actual patient is insufficient and researches on accurate image quality measurement method are remarkable. It is in short supply. Therefore, through this study, the researcher devised a method to measure the image quality of the acquired image after coronary angiography, and to provide a high quality image to the operator. The equipment and programs used were angiographic examination equipment (Axiom Artis Zee Ceiling) and Image J program. Subjects were images automatically saved in PACS program after coronary angiography.For image quality measurement, selected the AP Caudal 30° image that show the LCA vessel well and the LAO 30° image that show the RCA vessel well during the coronary angiography. In order to measure the background and ROI of the selected image by selecting an image, a criterion on how to find and measure a section where the overlap of the shadow, such as blood vessel, liver and lung is minimized, is presented. In conclusion, there is no exact standard for analyzing an image quality measurement method of angiography image. Therefore, in order to provide quality images to the practistioners, not only the technicians of the equipment but also the users who actually use them should become researchers and conduct research on image quality measurement in various ways. Thus, it is expected to provide excellent images to patients.

• Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.401-406
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• 2012

When viewed using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, invasive materials inside the human body, in many cases, severely distort the MR image of human tissues. The degree of the MR image distortion increases in proportion not only to the difference in the susceptibility between the invasive material and the human tissue, but also to the intensity of the magnetic field induced by the MRI system. In this study, by blending paramagnetic Ti particles with diamagnetic graphite, we synthesized $Ti_{100-x}C_x$ composites that can reduce the artifact in the MR image under the high-strength magnetic field. Of the developed composites, $Ti_{70}C_{30}$ showed the magnetic susceptibility of ${\chi}=67.6{\times}10^{-6}$, which corresponds to 30% of those of commercially available Ti alloys, the lowest reported in the literature. The level of the MR image distortion in the vicinity of the $Ti_{70}C_{30}$ composite insert was nearly negligible even under the high magnetic field of 4.7 T. In this paper, we reported on a methodology of designing new structural materials for bio-applications, their synthesis, experimental confirmation and measurement of MR images.