• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.437-445
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• 2019

After the permanent shutdown of K1 in 2017, decommissioning processes have attracted great attention. According to the current decommissioning roadmap, the dismantling of the activated components of K1 may start in 2026, following the removal of its spent fuel. Since the reactor vessel (RV) and reactor vessel internal (RVI) of K1 contain massive components and are relatively highly activated, their decommissioning process should be conducted carefully in terms of radiological and industrial safety. For achieving maximum efficiency of nuclear waste management processes for K1, we present activation analysis of the segmentation process and waste classification of the RV and RVI components of K1. For RVI, the active fuel regions and some parts of the upper and lower active regions are classified as intermediate-level waste (ILW), while other components are classified as low-level waste (LLW). Due to the RVI's complex structure and high activation, we suggest various underwater segmentation techniques which are expected to reduce radiation exposure and generate approximately nine ILW and nineteen very low level waste (VLLW)/LLW packages. For RV, the active fuel region and other components are classified as LLW, VLLW, and clearance waste (CW). In this case, we suggest in-situ remote segmentation in air, which is expected to generate approximately forty-two VLLW/LLW packages.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.3-5
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• 2005

Vessel boundary detection and modeling is a difficult but a necessary task in analyzing the mechanics of inflammation and the structure of the microvasculature. In this paper we present a method of analyzing the structure by means of an active contour model(using GVF Snake) for vessel boundary detection and 3D reconstruction. For this purpose we used a virtual vessel model and produced a phantom model. From these phantom images we obtained the contours of the vessel by GVF Snake and then reconstructed a 3D structure by using the coordinates of snakes.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.460-463
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• 2003

의료영상에서의 혈관의 분할은 심혈관계질환의 진단 및 시술을 위한 3차원 가시화 및 가상내시경을 하기위한 필수 선행 단계로 이에 대한 연구가 많이 이루어 지고 있다. 조영제를 투여한 환자의 CT데이터에서 혈관분할의 가장 큰 문제점은 혈관의 밝기값이 뼈의 밝기값과 비슷하기 때문에 기존의 3차원 SRG방법으로 분할하는 경우 새나감의 문제를 가지고 있었다. 본 논문에서는 Cubic SRG라는 방법을 통해 기존의 3차원 SRG가 가지는 깔끔한 분할결과와 적응적인 특성등의 여러 장점을 그대로 취하며 Cubic이라는 구조적 특징을 이용하여 혈관을 빠르고 강인하게 분할하는 방법을 제안한다. Cubic SRG는 SRG가 픽셀단위의 성장을 통해 동질 영역을 분할하는 방법을 사용함에 반해 Cubic이라는 부피 단위를 지정하여 이를 SRG의 픽셀과 같이 퍼트리는 방식으로 기존의 3차원 SRG에 비해 2$\sim$5배 정도의 빠른 수행속도를 보이며 3차원 SRG의 장점인 적응적인 특성을 그대로 가질수 있도륵 구현되었다. 또한 복셀들을 Cubic이라는 단위로 묶음으로서 혈관의 구조적인 분석을 수행하여 혈관을 트리형태의 구조로 그룹화가 가능하기 때문에 혈관을 가지별로 분할하기에 용이한 특징을 가지도록 하였으며, 이를 통해 새나감이 시작된 가지를 찾아서 잘라내는 방법을 통하여 SRG의 가장 큰 문제인 새나감 방법을 효과적으로 해결하는 방법을 제시한다. 최종적으로 위의 방법을 기본으로 하여 적응형 임계값 기반의 분할 방법을 혼합하여 사용자가 지정한 두 지점사이의 혈관을 강인하게 분할할수 있도록 구현하였고, 제안한 방법으로 여러 환자의 CT데이터에 실험하여 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.442-443
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• 2018

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.29-37
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based retinal vessel segmentation model for handling multi-scale information of fundus images. we integrate the selective kernel convolution into U-Net-based convolutional neural network. The proposed model extracts and segment features information with various shapes and sizes of retinal blood vessels, which is important information for diagnosing eye-related diseases from fundus images. The proposed model consists of standard convolutions and selective kernel convolutions. While the standard convolutional layer extracts information through the same size kernel size, The selective kernel convolution extracts information from branches with various kernel sizes and combines them by adaptively adjusting them through split-attention. To evaluate the performance of the proposed model, we used the DRIVE and CHASE DB1 datasets and the proposed model showed F1 score of 82.91% and 81.71% on both datasets respectively, confirming that the proposed model is effective in segmenting retinal blood vessels.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.1514-1519
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• 2019

IVUS is an intra-operative imaging modality that facilitates observing and appraising the vessel wall structure of the human coronary arteries. IVUS is regularly used to locate the atherosclerosis lesions in the coronary arteries. Auto-segmentation of the vessel structure is important to detect the disorder of coronary artery. In this paper, we propose a simple strategy to extract Intima/Adventitia area effectively using fuzzy binarization from intravascular images. The proposed method apply fuzzy binarization to find the adventitia but apply average binarization to locate the intima since they have different homogeneity of pixel intensity comparing with the environment. In this paper, we demonstrate an effective auto-segmentation method for detecting the interior/exterior of the vessel walls by differentiating the fuzzy binarization result and average binarization result from IVUS image. Important statistics such as Intima-Media Thickness (IMT) or volume of a target area can be easily computed from result.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.430-437
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• 2010

It is essential for living donor liver transplantation that surgeon must understand the hepatic vessel structure to improve the success rate of operation. In this paper, we extract the liver boundary without other surrounding structures such as heart, stomach, and spleen using the contrast enhanced MDCT liver image sequence. After that, we extract the major hepatic veins (left, middle, right hepatic vein) with morphological filter after review the basic structure of hepatic vessel which reside in segmented liver image region. The purpose of this study is provide the overall status of transplantation operation with size estimation of resection part which is dissected along with the middle hepatic vein. The method of liver extraction is as follows: firstly, we get rid of background and muscle layer with gray level distribution ratio from sampling process. secondly, the coincident images match with unit mesh image are unified with resulted image using the corse coordinate of liver and body. thirdly, we extract the final liver image after expanding and region filling. Using the segmented liver images, we extract the hepatic vessels with morphological filter and reversed the major hepatic vessels only with a results of ascending order of vessel size. The 3D reconstructed views of hepatic vessel are generated after applying the interpolation to provide the smooth view. These 3D view are used to estimate the dissection line after identify the middle hepatic vein. Finally, the volume of resection region is calculated and we can identify the possibility of successful transplantation operation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.51-57
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• 2012

Hepatic vessel tree is the key structure for hepatic disease diagnosis and liver surgery planning. Especially, it is used to evaluate the donors' and recipients' liver for the LDLT(Living Donors Liver Transplantation) and estimate the volumes of left and right hepatic lobes for securing their life in the LDLT. In this study, we propose a method to apply canny edge detection that is not affected by noise to the liver images for automatic segmentation of hepatic vessels tree in contrast abdominal MDCT image. Using histograms and average pixel values of the various liver CT images, optimized parameters of the Canny algorithm are determined. It is more time-efficient to use the common parameters than to change parameters manually according to CT images. Candidates of hepatic vessels are extracted by threshold filtering around the detected the vessel edge. Finally, using a system which detects the true-negatives and the false-positives in horizontal and vertical direction, the true-negatives are added in candidate of hepatic vessels and the false-positives are removed. As a result of the process, the various hepatic vessel trees of patients are accurately reconstructed in 3D.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.19-26
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• 2018

We proposed a numerical calculation of the proportion of necrotic cells in pulmonary segmentation, pulmonary vessel segmentation lung disease site for diagnosis of lung disease from chest CT images. The first step is to separate the lungs and bronchi by applying a three-dimensional labeling technique from a chest CT image and a three-dimensional region growing method. The second step is to divide the pulmonary vessels by applying the rate of change using the first order polynomial regression, perform noise reduction, and divide the final pulmonary vessels. The third step is to find a disease prediction factor in a two-step image and calculate the proportion of necrotic cells.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.25 no.4_2
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• pp.573-586
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• 2022

Corrosion can cause dangerous and expensive damage and failures of ship hulls and equipment. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain the vessel by periodic corrosion inspections. During visual inspection, many corrosion locations are inaccessible for many reasons, especially safety's point of view. Including subjective decisions of inspectors is one of the issues of visual inspection. Automation of visual inspection is tried by many pieces of research. In this study, we propose image preprocessing methods by image patch segmentation and thresholding. YOLOv5 was used as an object detection model after the image preprocessing. Finally, it was evaluated that corrosion detection performance using the proposed method was improved in terms of mean average precision.