• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.7451-7457
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• 2013

Background: Understanding and enhancing change capabilities, including Practice Adaptive Reserve (PAR), of Community Health Centers (CHCs) may mitigate cancer-related health disparities. Materials and Methods: Using stratified random sampling, we recruited 232 staff from seven CHCs serving Asian Pacific Islander communities to complete a self-administered survey. We performed multilevel regression analyses to examine PAR composite scores by CHC, position type, and number of years worked at their clinic. Results: The mean PAR score was 0.7 (s.d. 0.14). Higher scores were associated with a greater perceived likelihood that clinic staff would participate in an evidence-based intervention (EBI). Constructs such as communication, clinic flow, sensemaking, change valence, and resource availability were positively associated with EBI implementation or trended toward significance. Conclusions: PAR scores are positively associated with perceived likelihood of clinic staff participation in cancer screening EBI. Future research is needed to determine PAR levels most conducive to implementing change and to developing interventions that enhance Adaptive Reserve.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.2302-2316
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• 2015

We propose an efficient method of extracting targets within a region of interest in non-homogeneous infrared images by using a principal component analysis (PCA) plane and adaptive Gaussian kernel. Existing approaches for extracting targets have been limited to using only the intensity values of the pixels in a target region. However, it is difficult to extract the target regions effectively because the intensity values of the target region are mixed with the background intensity values. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel PCA based approach consisting of three steps. In the first step, we apply a PCA technique minimizing the total least-square errors of an IR image. In the second step, we generate a binary image that consists of pixels with higher values than the plane, and then calculate the second derivative of the sum of the square errors (SDSSE). In the final step, an iteration is performed until the convergence criteria is met, including the SDSSE, angle and labeling value. Therefore, a Gaussian kernel is weighted in addition to the PCA plane with the non-removed data from the previous step. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better segmentation performance than the existing method.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.502-504
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• 1995

In video image compression, it is important to extract the exact notion information from image sequence in order to perform the data compression, the field rate conversion, and the motion compensated interpolation effectively. It is well known that the location of the smallest sum of absolute difference(SAD) does not always give the true motion vector(MV) since the MV obtained via full block search is often corrupted by noise. In this paper, we first classifies the input blocks into 3 categories : the background, the shade-motion, and the edge-motion. According to the characteristics of the classified blocks, multiple locations of relatively small SAD are searched with an adaptive search window by using the proposed method. The proposed method picks MVs among those candidates by using temporal correlation. Since temporal correlation reveals the noise level in a particular region of the video image sequence, we are able to reduce the search are very effectively.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.718-723
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• 2013

일반적으로 배경과 물체의 경계 부분은 화소값이 급격히 변화하는 지점이며, 영상의 특징을 분석함에 있어서 중요한 요소이다. 이러한 경계 부분을 이용하여 영상 내에서 물체의 위치나 모양에 대한 정보를 검출하며, 이를 위한 많은 연구들이 이루어져 왔다. 기존의 방법들은 구현이 비교적 간단하며 처리 속도가 빠른 반면, 고정된 가중치가 모든 화소에 동일하게 적용되므로 에지 검출 특성이 다소 미흡하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 영상에 따라 적응하는 에지 검출을 위하여 마스크의 영역 분할을 이용한 에지 검출 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, 제안한 알고리즘에 의한 처리 결과는 에지 영역에서 우수한 에지 검출 특성을 나타내었다.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2002

Noise from electronic instrumentation is invariably present in biomedical signals, although the art of instrumentation design is such that this noise source may be negligible. And sometimes signals of interest are contaminated or degraded by signals of similar type from another source. Biomedical signals are omni-presently contaminated by these background noises that span nearly all frequency bandwidths. In the magneto-cardiogram (MCG), several digital filters have been designed for the elimination of the power-line interference, broadband white noise, surrounding magnetic noise, and baseline wondering. In addition to the introduced FIR filter, notch, adaptive filter using the least mean square (LMS) algorithm, and recurrent neural network (RNN) filter, a new filtering method for effective noise canceling in MCG signals is proposed in this paper, which is realized by the wavelet packets. The experimental results show that the proposed filter using wavelet packet performs efficiently with respect to noise rejection. To verify this, two characteristics were analyzed and compared with LMS adaptive filter, SNR of filtered signal and attractor pattern using the nonlinear dynamics.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권11C호
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• pp.1161-1168
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 음성검출의 성능을 향상시킬 목적으로 정합 필터를 이용한 음성향상 전처리 과정을 통하여 SNR을 개선한 후, 이를 LLR(Log Likelihood Ratio) 검사에 의한 최적 결정방법을 적용하여 확률적인 모델을 기준으로 하는 향상된 음성검출 방법을 제안한다. 또한 기존의 음성검출 방법들에서는 제시되지 않았던 문턱값 갱신 알고리즘을 제안하며, 이 방법을 통해서 기존의 방법들에서 성능이 좋지 않았던 낮은 SNR 환경에서도 음성검출을 할 수 있게 되었다. 마지막으로 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 이미 상용화되어 널리 이용중인 G.729B(ITU-TG.729 Annex B)의 음성검출 결과와 비교를 통해서 제안한 음성검출 방법의 성능의 우수성을 검증하며, 실제적인 환경에도 적용이 가능함을 보인다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2016

모바일 뱅킹을 위해 제공되는 다양한 서비스들 중에 은행 보안카드를 이용한 사용자 인증 방식이 여전히 많이 활용되고 있다. 보안카드의 보안코드를 스마트폰에 암호화하여 저장해 두고 모바일 뱅킹을 위해 사용자 인증이 필요할 때 자동 입력되도록 한다면 보안카드를 소지하지 않고서도 모바일뱅킹을 안전하고 편리하게 사용할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 스마트폰 카메라를 이용하여 보안카드의 보안코드를 자동으로 인식하고 스마트폰에 등록할 수 있는 보안카드 자동 인식 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 다양한 무늬의 배경이 디자인된 보안카드에서 숫자들만 정확하게 추출하기 위해 개선된 적응적 이진화 방법을 사용하였고 훼손되거나 붙은 숫자들까지 분할 인식하기 위해 적응적 2차원 레이아웃 해석 기법도 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘을 안드로이드 및 아이폰에 구현하고 실험해본 결과 매우 우수한 인식 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.88-94
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 보안 및 감시 시스템 분야에 적용할 수 있는 실시간 객체 탐지 및 추적 알고리듬을 제안한다. 구현된 시스템은 객체 탐지 단계, 객체 추적 단계로 구성되었다. 객체탐지에서는 정화한 객체의 움직임 검출을 위한 향상된 검출 방법인 적응배경 차분법과 적응적 블록 기반 모델을 제안한다. 객체추적에서는 칼만 필터에 기반한 다중 물체 추적 시스템을 설계하였다. 실험결과 이동객체의 움직임을 추정할 수 있었고, 추적 과정에서도 다수의 객체를 잃어버리지 않고 정상적으로 추적할 수 있었다. 또한 원거리 탐지 및 추적에서 향상된 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.110-117
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• 2014

This paper reports a depth-adaptive sharpness adjustment algorithm for stereoscopic perception improvement, and presents its field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation results. The first step of the proposed algorithm was to estimate the depth information of an input stereo video on a block basis. Second, the objects in the input video were segmented according to their depths. Third, the sharpness of the foreground objects was enhanced and that of the background was maintained or weakened. This paper proposes a new sharpness enhancement algorithm to suppress visually annoying artifacts, such as jagging and halos. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can improve stereoscopic perception without intentional depth adjustments. In addition, the hardware architecture of the proposed algorithm was designed and implemented on a general-purpose FPGA board. Real-time processing for full high-definition stereo videos was accomplished using 30,278 look-up tables, 24,553 registers, and 1,794,297 bits of memory at an operating frequency of 200MHz.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.1060-1071
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• 2014

Signals of the Electroencephalogram (EEG) can reflect the electrical background activity of the brain generated by the cerebral cortex nerve cells. This has been the mostly utilized signal, which helps in effective analysis of brain functions by supervised learning methods. In this paper, an approach for improving the accuracy of EEG signal classification is presented to detect epileptic seizures. Moreover, Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is incorporated as a preprocessing step and Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) is used for denoising the signal adequately. Feature extraction of EEG signals is accomplished on the basis of three parameters namely, Standard Deviation, Correlation Dimension and Lyapunov Exponents. The Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is trained by incorporating Levenberg-Marquardt(LM) training algorithm into the backpropagation algorithm that results in high classification accuracy. Experimental results reveal that the methodology will improve the clinical service of the EEG recording and also provide better decision making in epileptic seizure detection than the existing techniques. The proposed EEG signal classification using feed forward Backpropagation Neural Network performs better than to the EEG signal classification using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) classifier in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity.