• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.1874-1884
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• 1996

In this paper, we proposed automatic searching algorithm of thresholding value using multilevel thresholding for face segmentation from input bust image effectively. The proposed algorithm extracted the thresholding value of brightness that is formed background region, face region and hair region without illumination, background and face size from input image. The statistical projection analysis project the brightness of multilevel thresholding image into horizontal and vertical direction and decide the thresholding value of face. And the algorithm extracted elliptical type block of face from input image in order to reduce the back ground region and hair region efficiently. The proposed algorithm can reduce searching area of feature extraction and processing time for face recognication.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.229-232
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• 2003

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm to detect microcalcifications ROI (Regions of Interest) in digital mammograms using Linear filters. To efficiently detect microcalcifications ROI, we used three sequential processes; preprocessing for breast area detection, modified multilevel thresholding, ROI selection using mean filter and linear filters.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.149-162
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• 2013

Purpose: In image segmentation via thresholding, Otsu and Kapur methods have been widely used because of their effectiveness and robustness. However, computational complexity of these methods grows exponentially as the number of thresholds increases due to the exhaustive search characteristics. Methods: Particle swarm optimization (PSO) and genetic algorithms (GAs) can accelerate the computation. Both methods, however, also have some drawbacks including slow convergence and ease of being trapped in a local optimum instead of a global optimum. To overcome these difficulties, we proposed two new multi-level thresholding methods based on Bacteria Foraging PSO (BFPSO) and real-coded GA algorithms for fast segmentation. Results: The results from BFPSO and real-coded GA methods were compared with each other and also compared with the results obtained from the Otsu and Kapur methods. Conclusions: The proposed methods were computationally efficient and showed the excellent accuracy and stability. Results of the proposed methods were demonstrated using four real images.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1996년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1240-1242
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• 1996

In a still mill, the effective surface defect inspection algorithm is necessary. For this purpose, this paper proposed the preprocessing algorithm for surface defect inspection of cold mill strip. This consists of live steps. They are edge detection, binarizing, noise deletion, combining of fragmented defect and selecting the largest defect. Especially, binarizing is a critical problem. Bemuse the performance of the preprocessing is largely depend on the binarized image. So, we develope the adaptive thresholding method, which is multilevel thresholding. The thresholding value is varied according to the mean graylevel value of each test image. To investigate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we classified the detected defect using neural network. The test image is 20 defect images captured at German Sick Co. This algorithm is proved to have good property in cold mill strip surface inspection.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.288-304
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• 2019

The growth of telemedicine-based wireless communication for images-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT)-leads to the necessity of learning the concept of image compression. Over the years, the transform based and spatial based compression techniques have attracted many types of researches and achieve better results at the cost of high computational complexity. In order to overcome this, the optimization techniques are considered with the existing image compression techniques. However, it fails to preserve the original content of the diagnostic information and cause artifacts at high compression ratio. In this paper, the concept of histogram based multilevel thresholding (HMT) using entropy is appended with the optimization algorithm to compress the medical images effectively. However, the method becomes time consuming during the measurement of the randomness from the image pixel group and not suitable for medical applications. Hence, an attempt has been made in this paper to develop an HMT based image compression by utilizing the opposition based improved harmony search algorithm (OIHSA) as an optimization technique along with the entropy. Further, the enhancement of the significant information present in the medical images are improved by the proper selection of entropy and the number of thresholds chosen to reconstruct the compressed image.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권3C호
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• pp.374-386
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• 2004

유방암은 최근에 빠르게 증가하고 있는 여성 암중의 하나이며 그 발명원인이 불명확하여 조기 검출만이 생존율을 높일 수 있는 유일한 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 효율적으로 미소석회질의 의심 영역을 검출할 수 있는 방법에 대하여 설명한다. 본 논문에서는 디지털 마모램 영상에 대한 통계적 분석으로부터 일반적인 미소석회질의 특성을 분석한 후 분석된 자료를 이용하여 다단 신경망을 구성한 후 의심영역으로 간주되는 ROI를 검출한다. ROI 검출을 위하여 4단계로 구성되는 알고리즘을 제안하며 전처리 과정, 다단계 thresholding, 선형필터를 이용한 1차 미소석회질 선별작업, 다단계 신경망을 이용한 2차 미소석회질 검출이 포함된다. 선형필터를 이용한 1차 선별작업에서는 모든 미소석회질을 검출할 수 있었고 유방조직 제거를 통한 신경망에서의 작업처리 감소율이 86％로 나타났다. 2단 신경망을 이용한 2차 미소석회질 검출단계에서 첫 번째 신경망에서는 미소석회질의 형태적 특성을 기반으로 11개의 특징 값들을 정의하였으며 모든 데이터에 대한 실험 결과 평균 96.66％의 인식률을 보였다. 그리고 두 번째 신경망에서는 첫 번째 인식 결과 값과 미소석회질의 군집특성을 이용하기 위해 첫 번째 인식결과를 토대로 조사된 군집분포 여부를 특징 값으로 사용하였으며 그 결과 1차 신경망보다 높은 평균 98.26％의 인식률을 보였다.