• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.305-312
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• 1998

A small PACS based on PC is designed for CR. To receive the digital image from CR, a DICOM Interface Unit (DIU) is designed that complied with the medical image standard, DICOM V3.0. The CR images acquired through the DIU are stored in a file-server; the patient information of the images is stored in a database. To improve the performance of PC and to use it easily, multiresolution images are constructed by wavelet transform and displayed progressively. Wavelet compression method is newly adopted to store the images hierarchically to storage units. In this compression method, the image is decomposed into subclasses of image by wavelet transform, and then the subclasses of the image are vector quantized using a multiresolution codebook. The storage units for CR images were divided into the short-term storage in file-server and the harddisk in viewing station. Image processing tools supported by general PACS is implemented based on PC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1153-1156
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• 2005

PACS system developments for improve of diagnosis efficiency for hospital duty efficiency and patients through various medical image diagnosis device. PACS system studies for nonfilm hospital, but still, image filtering technology Present high accuracy take a photograph image be not enough. On study image processing part is very importance. The fittest of image processing in order to using simple and essential filter try to improvrnent. The future, diagnosis of patients decide accuracy, low cost based Digital XRay system will be using.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.761-772
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• 1998

This study was performed to determine the optimum coagulant dosing amount for effective treatment of raw water. The removal rate of turbidity and the variations of water qualities according to various dosage of coagulants such as Alum, PAC and PACS were investigated. The optimum coagulant dosing amount to make the lowest turbidity of water were 35mg/ι t of Alum, 30mg/ι of PAC and 10mg/ι of PACS in case of 5 NTU of raw water turbidity, and 30mg/ι of Alum, 25mg/ι of PAC and 10mg/ι of PACS in case of 10 NTU of that, respectively. The removal rates of turbidity at 4 min. and 8 min. of settling time were 10 and 72% of Alum, 44 and 62% of PAC and 25 and 55% of PACS in case of 5 NTU, and 52 and 70% of Alum, 90 and 95% of PAC and 10 and 28% of PACS in case of 10 NTU, respectively. Judging from the settling capability of floc., the reaction time of floe. formation and removal efficiency of turbidity, PAC was evaluated as more effective coagulant than Alum and PACS. Also PAC was regarded as the most effective coagulant when the water supply was changed sharply and the fluctuation of the surface loading occured with wide and sharp in settling basin. pH and alkalinity of the water were decreased with increasing coagulants dosage. But pH and alkalinity were not decreased below 5.8 which is the standard for drinking water quality, and 10mg/ι which is the limit concentration of floc. breakage, respectively. Residual Al of the treated water was decreased with increasing coagulants dosage in case of 5 and 10NTU of raw water turbidity. $KMnO_4$ consumption of the water was decreased with increasing coagulants dosage. The reduction rate of $KMnO_4$ consumption at the optimum coagulants dosage were 39% of Alum. 18% of PAC and 11% of PACS in case of 5 NTU of raw water turbidity, and 42% of Alum, 27% of PAC and 36% of PACS in case of 10 NTU of that, respectively. Any relationship was not found between the removal rate of turbidity and KMnO$_4$ consumption. TOC of the water was a bit decreased with increasing coagulants dosage up to 30mg/ι but not changed above 30mg/ι of coagulants dosage. The degree of TOC reduction was increased in the order of Alum, PAC and PACS treatment. Zeta potential of the colloidal floe. at the optimum coagulants dosage was in the range of -20~-15mV in case of 5 NTU of raw water turbidity and 0~0.5mV in case of 10 NTU of that. respectively. Although the kinds and dosages of coagulants were different, zeta potential range were fixed under the conditions of the best coagulation efficiency.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.167-175
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• 2007

There are some positive effects by the introduction of PACS(Picture Archiving Communication System). This study is to analyze the mutual relation between before and after of the introduction of PACS in terms of the environment effect. It is supposed to cause the reduction of developing and fixing wastewater according to the increase in the rate of a non-film. This study will also show the amount of wastewater. Target places were the department of image medicine(diagnostic radiation) of the general hospitals in Seoul and Gyeonggi-Do, which are equiped with full PACS. The authors examined questionnaires on the number of projection, the number of indirect projection, the amount of the film used, the number of radiation image CD loan, the amount of the developing and fixing solution used, the change of the amount of fixing wastewater. According to the analysis, we analyzed the change of the amount of developing and fixing solution per a film and the change of the amount of developing and fixing wastewater which is supposed to be reduced proportionally by the introduction of PACS. We got conclusion as below after analyzing 8 hospitals except the largest and the least amount of examination, film used, developing and fixing solution and the amount of developing and fixing wastewater in order to decrease the deviation from 10 general hospitals located in Seoul and Gyeonggi-Do. We compared data one year before adopting PACS Versus 3 years after adopting PACS. 1. The frequences of examination increased to 7,357.7 cases per month but the amount of film used decreased to 90%, from 42,774.4 to 4,181.88 after adopting the PACS. 2. 3 years after adopting PACS, monthly average amount of developing solution used decreased to 92% and the monthly average amount of fixing solution decreased to 86%. 3. Monthly average amount of developing solution used per film increased to 1.49 times and fixing solution increased as much as three times. 4. Monthly average wastewater for developing decreased to 88% and wastewater for fixing decreased up to 87%. 5. Monthly average wastewater for developing per film increased to 3.77 times and wastewater for fixing increased to 3.85 times. Although the amount of film used and the amount of developing and fixing wastewater affected by the reduction of the developing and fixing solution became less on the whole by introduction of PACS, they did not decrease proportionally. Moreover the amount of the developing and fixing solution used and the amount of developing and fixing wastewater per a film increased. That means the expectation for an environmental improvement differs from the actual condition.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.157-160
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• 2005

PACS is an integrated communication network system which is consists of image acquisition devices, storage archiving units, display stations, computer processors, and database management systems. In medical industry, they have been introduced the medical equipments through PACS systems based on the DICOM standard. In this paper, we have reviewed the performance of JPEG and JPEG2000 used as medical image compression and realized the transmission mode on DICOM standard.

• Journal of The Korean Radiological Technologist Association
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.111-116
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• 2004

According to technical development of DR modality, DR mortality is being produced by a lot of medical equipment companies ant established quirky in the hospital. Many hospitals which established the existing PACS is planning replacement of modality accord

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.14-22
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• 2007

PACS is an integrated communication network system which is consists of image acquisition devices, storage archiving units, display stations, computer processors, and database management systems. In medical industry, they have been introduced the medical equipments through PACS systems based on the DICOM standard. In this paper, we have reviewed the visual quality performance of various JPEG and JPEG2000 compression options for medical images. Through the realized the transmission mode on DICOM standard, the developed DICOM viewer has been shown in medical applications.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.209-210
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• 2009

임상공학 분야에서의 두 가지 트랜드의 변화가 주목된다. 급성질환에서 만성질환으로 의료/건강관리의 중요성이 증가하는 것이고, 이를 다루는 의료정보의 처리기기가 컴퓨터화 되고 있으며, 통합되어 이용되어 가는 것이다. 또한, 이 두 가지의 변화가 융합되는 방향으로 임상공학 분야의 연구의 중요성이 증가하고 있다. 이와 같은 의료정보처리의 요구사항을 만족하기 위하여 기 연구한 의료영상기반 협업 플랫폼 PACS-Grid[1]을 바탕으로 만성질환 지향형 의료정보 통합 가시화의 통합방법을 다룬다. 더불어 이를 지원하기 위한 서비스 지향형 PACS-Grid 플랫폼을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.361-362
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• 2015

사물인터넷(IoT)이 활성화되면 환자의 정보를 PC뿐만 아니라 스마트폰 등 모바일 기기를 통해 확보할 수 있게 돼 지금보다 방대하고 상세한 정보가 클라우드에 저장되고, 이들 데이터를 활용하면 결과적으로 의료 및 헬스케어 서비스 향상에 기여할 것으로 예상된다. 이러한 면에서 PACS 시스템 또한 핸드폰과 무선망의 보급이 보편화되면서 사용자가 이동 중 또는 병원이 아닌 외부에서 무선통신망을 이용하여 의료영상을 조회하고자 하는 요구가 급속히 늘어나고 있다. 이에 본 논문은 IOT 기반의 모바일 PACS 플랫폼을 개발하여 스마트폰을 사용하는 의사와 환자가 원하는 의료영상을 쉽게 저장 검색 조회 전송할 수 있는 시스템을 설계하였다.

• Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.25-29
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• 2014

The full-field digital mammography (FFDM), which has been known as a digital breast imaging system, carries out more outstanding performance than the screen-film mammography in overall image quality, skin & nipple, description of pectoral muscle and expression of micro-calcification. Thus, in this thesis, I perform experiments for both the enhancement of image quality and accurate estimation of the result in question, when detecting the very tiny-sized lesions in mammography. The image of digital breast X-rays is the important diagnostic tool for detecting early breast cancer and micro calcification lesion. The experiment of how much compression rate has an effect on the result of diagnosis in the case of microcalcification lesion, with JPEG2000 40:1 compression and over 50% enlargement led to obscure or definitely unacceptable diagnostic results is performed. And in another study of assessment of PSNR degree. I recognized the importance of standardized management system in mammography, where not to mention the accurate reading of the image has the most crucial role in diagnosis