• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.288-294
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 동영상 압축 기법을 향상시키기 위하여 효율적인 detail 추출 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 top-hat 변환을 이용한 기법은 고립되어 있고 시각적으로 중요한 detail의 추출에는 효율적이지만, 영역의 경계에서는 비효율적이다. 제안된 기법은 수리형태학적 Laplacian 연산의 영역경계 정보추출의 성질을 이용하여 압축을 향상시키고 저비트율을 제공한다. 실험결과를 통해서 제안된 기법이 기존 기법보다 효율적임을 보이고 수리형태학적 Laplacian 연산 적용의 타당성을 설명한다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.233-242
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 척추 자기공명영상에 대하여 자동적으로 질환에 관련된 특징 벡터들을 추출하고 디스크 질환을 인식하는 방법을 제안하였다. 척추 자기공명영상은 절단면에 따라 시상 단면 영상과 축 단면 영상으로 나누어 진다. 두가지 영상에서 질환에 관련된 특징 벡터를 추출하여 질환의 유무와 종류를 인식하는데 사용하였다. 시상 단면 영상에서는 각 부위에 해당하는 영역의 동질성을 이용하여 디스크 부분을 추출한 후 영역레이블링 과정을 통해 전체적인 크기와 돌출 정도를 구해서 질환을 나타내는 특징으로 이용하였다. 축 단면 영상에서는 템플릿 정합을 이용하여 디스크 영역을 찾고 경계선을 추출하기 위해 세기와 방향성을 고려한 연산자를 사용했다. 경계선의 모양을 분석해서 디스크 돌출 정도에 관한 수치를 얻었다. 이렇게 얻은 특징벡터들은 유사한 질환을 가진 환자의 영상을 찾기 위한 의료 영상 데이터 베이스에 사용될 수 있으며, 많은 양의 영상에서 질환이 나타나 있는 것을 일차적으로 선별하여 전문의에게 제공하는데 이용될 수 있을 것으로 예상한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.2788-2808
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• 2023

Brain tumors are one of the most threatening malignancies for humans. Misdiagnosis of brain tumors can result in false medical intervention, which ultimately reduces a patient's chance of survival. Manual identification and segmentation of brain tumors from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans can be difficult and error-prone because of the great range of tumor tissues that exist in various individuals and the similarity of normal tissues. To overcome this limitation, the Amended Convolutional Neural Network (ACNN) model has been introduced, a unique combination of three techniques that have not been previously explored for brain tumor detection. The three techniques integrated into the ACNN model are image tissue preprocessing using the Kalman Bucy Smoothing Filter to remove noisy pixels from the input, image tissue segmentation using the Isotonic Regressive Image Tissue Segmentation Process, and feature extraction using the Marr Wavelet Transformation. The extracted features are compared with the testing features using a sigmoid activation function in the output layer. The experimental findings show that the suggested model outperforms existing techniques concerning accuracy, precision, sensitivity, dice score, Jaccard index, specificity, Positive Predictive Value, Hausdorff distance, recall, and F1 score. The proposed ACNN model achieved a maximum accuracy of 98.8%, which is higher than other existing models, according to the experimental results.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.68-80
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• 2013

Lung cancer is considered to be the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. A technique commonly used consists of analyzing sputum images for detecting lung cancer cells. However, the analysis of sputum is time consuming and requires highly trained personnel to avoid errors. The manual screening of sputum samples has to be improved by using image processing techniques. In this paper we present a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system for early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer based on the analysis of the sputum color image with the aim to attain a high accuracy rate and to reduce the time consumed to analyze such sputum samples. In order to form general diagnostic rules, we present a framework for segmentation and extraction of sputum cells in sputum images using respectively, a Bayesian classification method followed by region detection and feature extraction techniques to determine the shape of the nuclei inside the sputum cells. The final results will be used for a (CAD) system for early detection of lung cancer. We analyzed the performance of a Bayesian classification with respect to the color space representation and quantification. Our methods were validated via a series of experimentation conducted with a data set of 100 images. Our evaluation criteria were based on sensitivity, specificity and accuracy.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.59-65
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• 2004

This paper explores an image segmentation and representation method using Vector Quantization(VQ) on color and texture for content-based image retrieval system. The basic idea is a transformation from the raw pixel data to a small set of image regions which are coherent in color and texture space. These schemes are used for object-based image retrieval. Features for image retrieval are three color features from HSV color model and five texture features from Gray-level co-occurrence matrices. Once the feature extraction scheme is performed in the image, 8-dimensional feature vectors represent each pixel in the image. VQ algorithm is used to cluster each pixel data into groups. A representative feature table based on the dominant groups is obtained and used to retrieve similar images according to object within the image. The proposed method can retrieve similar images even in the case that the objects are translated, scaled, and rotated.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.98-108
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• 2023

This paper is an attempt to design segmentation method based on fully convolutional networks (FCN) and attention mechanism. The first five layers of the Visual Geometry Group (VGG) 16 network serve as the coding part in the semantic segmentation network structure with the convolutional layer used to replace pooling to reduce loss of image feature extraction information. The up-sampling and deconvolution unit of the FCN is then used as the decoding part in the semantic segmentation network. In the deconvolution process, the skip structure is used to fuse different levels of information and the attention mechanism is incorporated to reduce accuracy loss. Finally, the segmentation results are obtained through pixel layer classification. The results show that our method outperforms the comparison methods in mean pixel accuracy (MPA) and mean intersection over union (MIOU).

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.262-270
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• 2002

대부분의 영상색인 기법에서는 영상의 전역 특징값을 이용한다. 그러나 이러한 방법은 영상의 지역적인 변화들을 담아내지 못하기 때문에 만족할 만한 격과를 제공하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 방법으로 영상의 특징점(salient point)과 영상분할을 이용하여 중요영역(important region)을 추출하는 새로운 영역기반 영상검색 시스템을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 특징점 추출 기법은 기존의 방법과 비교하여 빠르고 정확한 추출 결과를 보여준다. 선택된 영역에서 추출된 칼라와 질감 정보를 이용하여 검색한 결과는 칼라나 질감 정보의 전력 특징값을 이용한 검색 방법의 결과보다 크게 향상됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.319-334
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• 2001

Extracting primitives from imagery plays an important task in visual information processing since the primitives provide useful information about characteristics of the objects and patterns. The human visual system utilizes features without difficulty for image interpretation, scene analysis and object recognition. However, to extract and to analyze feature are difficult processing. The ultimate goal of digital image processing is to extract information and reconstruct objects automatically. The objective of this study is to develop robust method to achieve the goal of the image processing. In this study, an adaptive strategy was developed by implementing Gabor filters in order to extract feature information and to segment images. The Gabor filters are conceived as hypothetical structures of the retinal receptive fields in human vision system. Therefore, to develop a method which resembles the performance of human visual perception is possible using the Gabor filters. A method to compute appropriate parameters of the Gabor filters without human visual inspection is proposed. The entire framework is based on the theory of human visual perception. Digital images were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed strategy. The results show that the proposed adaptive approach improves performance of the Gabor filters for feature extraction and segmentation.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.238-245
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• 2024

본 논문에서는 농작물 다중 분광 이미지에 대해 특징 융합 기법을 이용하여 의미론적 분할 성능을 향상시키기 위한 프레임워크를 제안한다. 스마트팜 분야에서 연구 중인 딥러닝 기술 중 의미론적 분할 모델 대부분은 RGB(red-green-blue)로 학습을 진행하고 있고 성능을 높이기 위해 모델의 깊이와 복잡성을 증가시키는 데에 집중하고 있다. 본 연구는 기존 방식과 달리 다중 분광과 어텐션 메커니즘을 통해 모델을 최적화하여 설계한다. 제안하는 방식은 RGB 단일 이미지와 함께 UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)에서 수집된 여러 채널의 특징을 융합하여 특징 추출 성능을 높이고 상호보완적인 특징을 인식하여 학습 효과를 증대시킨다. 특징 융합에 집중할 수 있도록 모델 구조를 개선하고, 작물 이미지에 유리한 채널 및 조합을 실험하여 다른 모델과의 성능을 비교한다. 실험 결과 RGB와 NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index)가 융합된 모델이 다른 채널과의 조합보다 성능이 우수함을 보였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2004년도 추계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.505-510
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• 2004

This paper suggests a new CT-image segmentation algorithm. This algorithm uses morphological filters and the watershed algorithms. The proposed CT-image segmentation algorithm consists of six parts: preprocessing, image simplification, feature extraction, decision making, region merging, and postprocessing. By combining spatial and temporal information, we can get more accurate segmentation results. The simulation results illustrate not only the segmentation results of the conventional scheme but also the results of the proposed scheme; this comparison illustrates the efficacy of the proposed technique. Furthermore, we compare the various medical images of the structuring elements. Indeed, to illustrate the improvement of coding efficiency in postprocessing, we use differential chain coding for the shape coding of results.