• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.17-26
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• 2019

We aimed to build a patient-based allergy prevention system using the smartphone and focused on the region of interest (ROI) extraction method for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in the general environment. However, the current ROI extraction method has shown good performance in the experimental environment, but the performance in the real environment was not good due to the noisy background. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the compared methods of reducing noisy background to solve the ROI extraction problem. There five methods used as a SMF, DIN, Denoising Autoencoder(DAE), DAE with Convolution Neural Network(DAECNN) and median filter(MF) with DAECNN (MF+DAECNN). We have shown that our proposed DAECNN and MF+DAECNN methods are 69%, respectively, which is relatively higher than the conventional DAE method 55%. The verification of performance improvement uses MSE, PSNR and SSIM. The system has implemented OpenCV, C++ and Python, including its performance, is tested on real images.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.634-640
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an automatic extraction algorithm of region of interest(ROI) based on medical x-ray images. The proposed algorithm uses segmentation, feature extraction, and reference image matching to detect lesion sites in the input image. The extracted region is searched for matching lesion images in the reference DB, and the matched results are automatically extracted using the Kalman filter based fitness feedback. The proposed algorithm is extracts the contour of the left hand image for extract growth plate based on the left x-ray input image. It creates a candidate region using multi scale Hessian-matrix based sessionization. As a result, the proposed algorithm was able to split rapidly in 0.02 seconds during the ROI segmentation phase, also when extracting ROI based on segmented image 0.53, the reinforcement phase was able to perform very accurate image segmentation in 0.49 seconds.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.249-255
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• 2017

The finger vein recognition technology is a method to acquire a finger vein image by illuminating infrared light to the finger and to authenticate a person through processes such as feature extraction and matching. In order to recognize a finger vein, a 2D mask-based two-dimensional convolution method can be used to detect a finger edge but it takes too much computation time when it is applied to a low cost micro-processor or micro-controller. To solve this problem and improve the recognition rate, this study proposed an extraction method for the region of interest based on virtual core points and moving average filtering based on the threshold and absolute value of difference between pixels without using 2D convolution and 2D masks. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, 600 finger vein images were used to compare the edge extraction speed and accuracy of ROI extraction between the proposed method and existing methods. The comparison result showed that a processing speed of the proposed method was at least twice faster than those of the existing methods and the accuracy of ROI extraction was 6% higher than those of the existing methods. From the results, the proposed method is expected to have high processing speed and high recognition rate when it is applied to inexpensive microprocessors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.239-241
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 클러스터 개수를 동적으로 생성하는 개선된 FCM을 적용하여 초음파 영상에서 충수염을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 초음파 영상에서 ROI 영역을 추출한 후, Max-Min 기반 이진화 기법을 적용한다. 이진화된 영상에서 근막 영역의 크기가 ROI 영역의 1/3이상을 차지한다는 정보를 이용하여 Labelling 기법을 적용하여 근막 영역을 추출한다. 근막의 최하단 좌표를 이용하여 근막의 하단 영역을 추출한 후, 근막의 하단 영역에서 객체들의 선명도를 높이기 위해 Blurring 기법과 Sharpening 기법을 적용한다. 충수염의 후보 영역을 추출하기 위해 FCM 알고리즘을 개선하여 양자화를 수행한다. 개선된 FCM 알고리즘으로 양자화를 수행하여 충수염의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 충수염의 후보 영역에서 8방향 윤곽선 추적 기법을 적용하여 객체들을 추출한다. 추출된 객체들 중에서 낮은 명암도를 가지고 초음파 전체 영상 크기의 1/3이하 되는 객체를 충수염으로 추출한다. 초음파 영상을 대상으로 제안된 방법을 적용하여 실험한 결과, 기존의 방법보다 충수염 영역의 추출률이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.363-365
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• 2018

대장과 소장에서 모두 폐색 영역을 검출하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 기존에 연구된 장 폐색 영역 검출 방법과 ART2 알고리즘을 이용한 대장 폐색 영역과 소장 폐색 영역을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 기존에 연구된 방법을 이용하여 ROI 영역을 추출한 후, 추출된 ROI 영역을 ART2 알고리즘을 이용하여 영상을 군집화 한다. 군집화된 ROI 영역과 기존에 연구된 방법으로 X-ray 영상에서 검출한 장 폐색 영역의 형태학적 특징을 비교 및 분석하여 장 폐색의 형태학적 특징을 포함하는 클러스터를 분석한다. 따라서 장 폐색 영역에 해당되는 클러스터로 분류된 영역 내부를 클러스터의 중심에 해당되는 픽셀로 모두 대체한다. 그리고 $3^*3$ 필터를 이용한 침식과 팽창 연산을 적용하여 잡음을 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 영상에서 각 객체들을 라벨링한 후에 크기를 비교하여 배경과 기타 지방 영역을 제거하고 남은 객체들을 장 폐색 영역으로 검출한다. 제안된 추출 방법을 장 폐색 X-ray 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존에 연구된 방법으로 추출에 성공한 대장 장 폐색 영상과 추출에 실패한 소장 폐색 영상 모두에서 추출되는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.519-521
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• 2015

세라믹 소재 영상에서 결함 영역이 다른 영역보다 명암도가 밝게 나타나는 정보를 이용하여 ROI 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에서 Blurring 기법을 적용하여 미세 잡음을 제거한다. 미세 잡음이 제거된 ROI 영역에서 Median Filter기법을 적용하여 임펄스 잡음을 제거한다. 임펄스 잡음이 제거된 영역에서 Prewit Mask을 적용하여 수평과 수직 에지를 검출하고 검출된 에지에 윤곽선 추적 기법을 적용하여 결함 영역의 경계를 보정한다. 보정된 영상에서 Blob Labeling 기법을 적용하여 최종적으로 결함 영역을 추출한다. 제안된 방법을 8mm와 10mm 세라믹 소재 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 결함 검출 방법보다 제안된 검출 방법의 검출 성능이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.2206-2212
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• 2013

We propose a method for the classification of fatty liver by ultrasound imaging using Fuzzy Contrast Enhancement Technique and FCM. ROI images are extracted after removal of information data except ultrasound image of the liver and the kidney then image contrast is improved by Fuzzy Contrast Enhancement Algorithm. The images applied Fuzzy Contrast Enhancement Technique is applied average binarization then ROI images of liver and kidney parenchyma are extracted using Blob algorithm. Representative brightness is extracted in the liver and kidney images using the most frequent brightness level after classification of 10 brightness levels. We applied this method to ultrasound images and a radiologist confirmed the accuracy of diagnosis for fatty liver. This method would be a model for automatic method in the diagnosis of fatty liver.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.98-105
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose the method and system which determines the condition for safe and unsafe lane changing. To determine the condition, first, the system sets up the Region of Interest(ROI) on the neighboring lane. Second, a dangerous vehicle is extracted during the line changing. Third, the condition is determined to wm or not by calculating the moving direction, relative distance md relative velocity. To set up the ROI, the only one side lane is detected and the interested region is expanded. Using the coordinate transformation method, the accuracy of the ROI raised. To correctly extract the vehicle on the neighboring lane, the Adaptive Background Update method and Image Segmentation method which uses the feature of the travelling road are used. The object which is extracted by the dangerous vehicle is calculated the relative distance, the relative velocity and the moving average. And then in order to ring, the direction of the vehicle and the condition for safe and unsafe is determined. As minimizes the interested region and uses the feature of the travelling road, the computational quantity is reduced and the accuracy is raised and a stable result on a travelling road images which demands a high speed calculation is showed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.493-497
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• 2016

Infrared (IR) imaging is capable of detecting targets that are not visible at night, thus it has been widely used for the security and defense system. However, the quality of the IR image is often degraded by low resolution and noise corruption. This paper addresses target segmentation with the IR image. Multiple regions of interest (ROI) are extracted by the multi-level segmentation and targets are segmented from the individual ROI. Each level of the multi-level segmentation is composed of a k-means clustering algorithm an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, and a decision process. The k-means clustering algorithm initializes the parameters of the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and the EM algorithm iteratively estimates those parameters. Each pixel is assigned to one of clusters during the decision. This paper proposes the selection and the merging of the extracted ROIs. ROI regions are selectively merged in order to include the overlapped ROI windows. In the experiments, the proposed method is tested on an IR image capturing two pedestrians at night. The performance is compared with conventional methods showing that the proposed method outperforms others.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.507-509
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 지방종 초음파 영상에서 지방종을 자동적으로 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 초음파 영상에 Monotone Cubic Spline 보간법을 이용하여 ROI영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에 Fuzzy Stretching 기법을 적용하여 명암 대비를 강조한 후, ART2 알고리즘과 8방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 잡음을 제거한 후에 지방종의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 지방종의 후보 영역 중에서 형태학적으로 타원 형태를 띠거나 가장 큰 후보 영역의 정보를 이용하여 Labeling 기법을 적용하여 최종적으로 지방종 영역을 추출한다. 제안된 방법을 지방종 초음파 영상에 실험한 결과, 지방종 영역이 비교적 정확히 추출되는 것을 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.