• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.254-258
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• 2016

In this paper, a brain phantom for evaluating brain stroke localization is proposed. To evaluate brain stroke localization, a phantom imitating three-dimensional (3D) simulation environment is needed. Mold for the proposed phantom was printed by a 3D printer and the interior of the phantom consists of 5 different brain tissue materials. Each of the brain tissue materials has the conductivity and permittivity similar to those of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) standards for a frequency band from 0.5 to 2 GHz.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.2356-2363
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• 2015

Localization of lightning strike point (LSP) in the forest is modeled to mitigate the forest fire damage. Though forest fire ignited by lightning rarely happens, its damage on the forest is grievousness. Therefore, predicting accurate location of LSP becomes crucial in order to control the forest fire. In this paper, we proposed a new hybrid localization algorithm by combining the received signal strength (RSS) and the received signal strength ratio (RSSR) to improve the accuracy by mitigating the environmental effect of lightning strike location in the forest. The proposed hybrid algorithm employs antenna theory (AT) model of cloud-to-ground (CG) return stroke lightning channel to forecast the location of the lightning strike. The obtained results show that the proposed hybrid algorithm achieves better location accuracy compared to the existing RSS method for predicting the lightning strike location considering additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) environment.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.297-303
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 디지털 비디오를 위한 획기반 자막 추출 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 자막 탐지, 자막 위치 찾기 자막 분리 단계와 분리된 자막에 대한 기하학적 검증 과정으로 구성된다. 자막 탐지 단계는 연속적으로 입력되는 프레임 중 자막이 존재하는 프레임을 찾는 단계로써, 주어진 프레임으로부터 자막이 될 가능성이 높은 점, 즉 씨앗점을 추출한 다음 씨앗점에 대하여 모폴로지 연산을 수행한다. 자막 위치 찾기 단계는 자막이 존재하는 프레임에서 자막의 위치를 찾는 단계로써, 씨앗점을 포함하는 에지에 대한 모폴로지 연산과 프로젝션을 통해 수행된다. 자막 분리 단계에서는 자막과 배경의 색상 분포와 복잡한 배경을 고려하여 자막을 강건하게 분리한다. 마지막으로 자막에 대한 사전 정보를 이용하여 분리된 자막에 대한 기하학적 검증 과정을 수행하여 최종 결과를 얻는다.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.59-65
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• 2000

Most studies of failure analysis in ductile metals have been based on the classical plasticity theory using the local constitutive relations. These frequently yields a physically unrealistic solution, in which a numerical prediction of the onset of a deformation localization shows an inherent mesh-size sensitivity. A one way to remedy the spurious mesh sensitivity resulted in the unreasonable results is to incorporate the non-local plasticity into the simulation model, which introduce an internal (material) length-scale parameter into the classical constitutive relations. In this paper, a non-local version of the modified Gurson constitutive relation has been introduced into the finite element formulation of the simulation for plane strain compression of the visco elastic-plastic void material. By introducing the non-local constitutive relations we could successfully removed the inherent mesh-size sensitivity for the prediction of the deformation localization. The effects of non-local constitutive relation are discussed in terms of the load-stroke curve and the strain distributions accross the shear band.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.91-96
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• 2007

The measurement of pathologically low levels of tissue $pO_2$ is an important diagnostic goal for determining the prognosis of many clinically important diseases including cardiovascular insufficiency, stroke and cancer. The target tissues nowaday have mostly been tumors or the myocardium, with less attention centered on the brain. Radiolabelled nitroimidazole or derivatives may be useful in identifying the hypoxic cells in cerebrovascular disease or traumatic brain injury, and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. In acute stroke, the target of therapy is the severely hypoxic but salvageable tissue. $^{18}F-MISO$ PET and $^{99}mTc-EC-metronidazole$ SPECT in patients with acute ischemic stroke identified hypoxic tissues and ischemic penumbra, and predicted its outcome. A study using $^{123}I-IAZA$ in patient with closed head injury detected the hypoxic tissues after head injury. Up till now these radiopharmaceuticals have drawbacks due to its relatively low concentration with hypoxic tissues associated with/without low blood-brain barrier permeability and the necessity to wait a long time to achieve acceptable target to background ratios for imaging in acute ischemic stroke. It is needed to develop new hypoxic marker exhibiting more rapid localization in the hypoxic region in the brain. And then, the hypoxic brain imaging with imidazoles or non-imidazoles may be very useful in detecting the hypoxic tissues, determining therapeutic strategies and developing therapeutic drugs in several neurological disease, especially, in acute ischemic stroke.

• 대한자기공명의과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한자기공명의과학회 2001년도 제6차 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.104-104
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• 2001

Purpose： In this study, we investigated the possible motor pathways of hemiplegic stroke patients usin combined TMS and BOLD fMRI approach and evaluated the correlation between TMS a fMRI methods. Method： Four subjects, who demonstrated left hemiplegia after stroke, are included. TMS was performed using a Dantec Mag2 stimulator (Dantec Company, USA) in single puls mode with figure eight-shaped coil. Following TMS localization, The BOLD T2＊-weight images were acquired with echo planar imaging sequence (TR = 1.2 sec, TE = 60 msec, and flip angle = 90). Motor activation was studied by means of a repetitive fing flexion-extension task. The stimulation protocol comprised 10 cycles of alternating activati and rest (10 images per cycle). Total 60 cycles were performed and each cycle take abou 1.5 sec. The resulting images were then analyzed with STIMULATE (CMRR, U, o Minnesota) to generate functional maps using a student t-test (p < 0.0005) and cluste analysis.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.178-186
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• 2003

Recently, many researchers have been interested in biometric systems such as fingerprint, handwriting, key-stroke patterns and human iris. From the viewpoint of reliability and robustness, iris recognition is the most attractive biometric system. Moreover, the iris recognition system is a comfortable biometric system, since the video image of an eye can be taken at a distance. In this paper, we discuss human iris recognition, which is based on accurate iris localization, robust feature extraction, and Neural Network classification. The iris region is accurately localized in the eye image using a multiresolution active snake model. For the feature representation, the localized iris image is decomposed using wavelet transform based on dyadic Haar wavelet. Experimental results show the usefulness of wavelet transform in comparison to conventional Gabor transform. In addition, we present a new method for setting initial weight vectors in competitive learning. The proposed initialization method yields better accuracy than the conventional method.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2013

말레이시아 차량 번호판에는 플라스틱으로 제작된 영문 및 숫자들이 엠보싱 형태로 부착되어있으며 수평 수직방향 문자들 사이 간격이 조밀하게 배치된 경우가 많다. 따라서 조도가 낮은 차량 영상에서는 번호판 문자 획 정보 추출이 어려워질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 저 조도에서 촬영된 말레이시아 차량 영상에서 번호판을 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 저 조도에서 촬영된 차량 영상에서도 문자 획 연결 요소를 정확하게 추출하기 위해 DoG 필터링 기반 문자 획 생성 기법을 도입하였다. 문자 획 연결요소 해석을 통한 번호판 후보 영역을 추정한 다음 문자 영역을 분할하고 인식을 하였다. 쿠알라룸푸르 도로상에서 조명이 부착되지 않은 IR 카메라를 사용하여 주야로 촬영한 6,046장의 차량 영상을 대상으로 번호판 인식 실험을 수행하였다. 제안된 알고리즘을 이용하여 실험해 본 결과 번호판 인식 성능이 96.1%로 나타났다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2009

디지털 비디오에서 텍스트 정보는 비디오 데이터의 시청각적인 정보를 보강하고 부가 정보를 제공하기 때문에 방대한 멀티미디어의 내용을 예측할 수 있는 중요한 단서를 제공한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방법은 주어진 영상열로부터 자막의 획 특징을 이용하여 자막을 탐지하고, 프로젝션을 이용하여 자막의 위치를 찾는다. 찾아진 자막을 포함하는 바운딩박스에 대한 기하학적인 검증을 거친 후, 서로 인접하는 프레임에 있는 바운딩박스 중 공간적으로 동일한 위치의 바운딩박스에 대한 MAD를 이용하여 바운딩박스를 추적하고, 시간적 중복성을 이용하여 바운딩박스 영역의 화질을 향상시킨다. 다양한 비디오에 대한 실험 결과는 제안된 방법의 타당성을 보인다.

• 대한유전성대사질환학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.77-79
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• 2002

The urea cycle, consisting of a series of six enzymatic reactions, plays key roles to prevent the accumulation of toxic nitrogenous compound and synthesize arginine de novo. Five well characterized diseases have been described, resulting from an enzymatic defect in the biosynthesis of one of the normally expressed enzyme. This presentation will focus on two representative diseases; ornithine transcarbamylase(OTC) deficiency and citrullinemia(argininosuccinate synthetase deficiency). OTC deficiency is one of the most common inborn error of urea cycle, which is inherited in X-linked manner. We identified 17 different mutations in 20 unrelated Korean patients with OTC deficiency; L9X, R26P, R26X, T44I, R92X, G100R, R141Q, G195R, M205T, H214Y, D249G, R277W, F281S, 853 del C, R320X, V323M and 10 bp del at nt. 796-805. These mutations occur at well conserved nucleotide sequences across species or CpG hot spot. The L9X and R26X lead to the disruption of leader sequences, required for directing mitochondrial localization of the OTC precursor. Their phenotypes are severe, and neonatal onset. The G100R, R277W and V323M mutations were uniquely identified in patients with late onset OTC deficiency. The other genotypes are associated with neonatal onset. Out of 20 patients with OTC deficiency, only 6 patients are alive; two were liver transplanted, and normal in growth and development at 2, 4 years after transplantation respectively. Citrullinemia is an autosomal recessive disease, caused by the mutations in the argininosuccinate synthetase(ASS) gene. We identified in 3 major mutations in 11 unrelated Korean patients with citrullinemia; G324S, $IVS6^{-2}$ A to G, and 67 bp ins at nt 1125-1126. Among these, the 67 base pair insertion mutation is novel. The allele frequency of each mutation is; G324S(45%), IVS6-2 A to G(32%), and 67 base pair insertion(14%). All patients are diagnosed at neonatal or infantile age. Interestingly, two patients presented with stroke like episode. Out of 11 patients, 5 patients died. Among 6 patients alive, one patient was successfully liver transplanted.