• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.341-350
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• 2019

Purpose: To determine the MR parameters affecting India ink artifacts on opposed-phase chemical shift magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Materials and Methods: The use of a female Sprague-Dawley rat was approved by our Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Using an iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least-squares estimation (IDEAL) images, which is a modified Dixon method, axial opposed-phase images of the abdominal cavity were obtained with different MR parameters: series 1, different repetition times (TRs; 400, 2000, and 4000 ms); series 2, different echo times (TEs; 10, 50, and 100 ms); series 3, different field of views (FOVs; 6, 8, 16, and 24 cm); series 4, different echo train lengths (ETLs; 2, 4, and 8); series 5, different bandwidths (25, 50, and 85); and series 6, different slice thicknesses (1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 mm). Artifacts on opposed images obtained with different parameters were compared subjectively by two radiologists. For objective analysis, the thickness of the artifact was measured. Spearman's correlation between altered MR parameters and thicknesses of India ink artifact was obtained via objective analysis. Results: India ink artifact was increasingly apparent using shorter TE, larger FOV and ETL, and thicker slices upon subjective analysis. The objective analysis revealed a strong negative correlation between the thickness of the artifact and TE (r = -0.870, P < 0.01); however, strong positive correlations were found between FOV (r = 0.854, P < 0.01) and slice thickness (r = 0.971, P < 0.01). Conclusion: India ink artifact was thicker with shorter TE, larger FOV, and larger slice thickness.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.41-44
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• 2018

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of different numbers of basis images and the use of metal artifact reduction (MAR) on the production and reduction of artifacts in cone-beam computed tomography images. Materials and Methods: An acrylic resin phantom with a metal alloy sample was scanned, with 450 or 720 basis images and with or without MAR. Standard deviation values for the test areas (around the metal object) were obtained as a way of measuring artifact production. Two-way analysis of variance was used with a 5% significance level. Results: There was no significant difference in artifact production among the images obtained with different numbers of basis images without MAR (P=.985). MAR significantly reduced artifact production in the test areas only in the protocol using 720 basis images (P=.017). The protocol using 450 basis images with MAR showed no significant difference in artifact production when compared to the protocol using 720 basis images with MAR (P=.579). Conclusion: Protocols with a smaller number of basis images and with MAR activated are preferable for minimizing artifact production in tomographic images without exposing the patient to a greater radiation dose.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.439-442
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• 2001

The Accuracy of a free-form artifact is affected by machine tool errors, machining process errors, environmental causes and other uncertainty. This paper deals with methodological approach about machine tool errors that are defined the relationship between CMM and OMM inspections of the free-form artifact. In order to analyze the measurement data, Reverse engineering was used. In other words, Surface of Free-Form Artifact is generated by NURBS surface approximation method. Finally, Volumetric error map is made to compare surface of CMM data with that of OMM data.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.194-197
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• 2005

Digital display products are gradually becoming diversified and pursuing high-quality image display. Digital TV supports various video signal formats from conventional SD to digital HD because the format conversion of video image is required. Traditional format conversion of the video image is achieved by a 1-dimensional linear interpolator applying both horizontal and vertical direction. Jagging artifact can be expressed as the linkage of line segments in several directions. In this paper, we present the method that removes jagging artifact effectively using PCA (Principle Component Analysis) and reserve the detail in a given image.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.543-549
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• 2013

자율신경계 및 중추신경계 반응 신호는 취득 시 피험자의 움직임이 있는 경우 노이즈가 첨가되어 의도한 분석이 불가능하게 될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 생리신호 취득시 피험자의 영상을 동시에 촬영 및 분석하고 움직임을 감지하여, 생리신호의 노이즈 구간을 정의하는 방법을 제안한다. 움직임 감지를 위해 시계열에서 영상 프레임간 1차 미분하고 임계치 이상 움직임이 발생했을 때를 해당 신호의 노이즈 발생 구간으로 정의하였다. 또한, 영상을 사용하지 않는 방법으로써, 수집된 신호를 주기 단위로 분석하여 길이와 높이를 특징으로 한 정상 신호를 2차원 가우시안 확률밀도함수로 모델화하여, 신호의 훼손 구간을 정의하는 방법을 제안한다. 두 방법으로 정의된 훼손 구간은 가우시안 함수를 기반으로 보간하였다. 광혈류량 신호에 적용한 결과, 심전도 신호에서 추출된 평균 심박간격에 가까운 수치로 복원됨을 확인하였다. 또한, 영상기반 방법은 정상구간을 훼손구간으로, 신호기반 방법은 훼손구간을 정상구간으로 잘못 인식하는 경우가 나타남을 확인하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.369-376
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• 2007

With the convergence of ubiquitous networking and medical technologies, ubiquitous healthcare(U-Healthcare) service has come in our life, which enables a patient to receive medical services at anytime and anywhere. In the u-Healthcare environment, intelligent real-time biosignal aquisition/analysis techniques are inevitable. In this study, we propose a motion artifact cancelation method in portable photoplethysmography(PPG) signal aquisition using an accelerometer and an adaptive filter. A preliminary experiment represented that the component of the pedestrian motion artifact can be found under 5Hz in the spectral analysis. Therefore, we collected PPG signals under both simulated conditions with a motor that generates circular motion with uniform velocity (from 1 to 5Hz) and a real walking condition. We then reduced the motion artifact using a recursive least square adaptive filter which takes the accelerometer output as a noise reference. The results showed that the adaptive filter can remove the motion artifact effectively and recover peak points in PPG signals, which represents our method can be useful to detect heart rate in real walking condition.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.397-403
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to obtain brain MRI images through Heavenly T₂ FLAIR and DWI techniques to find out strengths and weaknesses of each image. Data were analyzed on 13 normal people and 17 brain tumor patients. Philips Ingenia 3.0TCX was used as the equipment used for the inspection, and 32 Channel Head Coil was used to acquire data. Using Image J and Infinity PACS Data, 3mm² of gray matter, white matter, cerebellum, basal ganglia, and tumor areas were set and measured. Quantitative analysis measured SNR and CNR as an analysis method, and qualitative analysis evaluated overall image quality, lesion conspicuity, image distortion, susceptibility artifact and ghost artifact on a 5-point scale. The statistical significance of data analysis was that Wilcox-on Signed Rank Test and Paired t-test were executed, and the statistical program used was SPSS ver.22.0 and the p value was less than 0.05. In quantitative analysis, the SNR of gray matter, white matter, cerebellum, basal ganglia, and tumor of Heavily T₂ FLAIR is 41.45±0.13, 40.52±0.45, 41.44±0.51, 40.96±0.09, 35.28±0.46 and the CNR is 15.24±0.13, 16.75±0.23, 16.28±0.41, 15.83±0.17, 16.63±0.51. In DWI, SNR is 32.58±0.22, 36.75±0.17, 30.21±0.19, 35.83±0.11, 43.29±0.08, and CNR is 13.14±0.63, 14.21±0.31, 12.95±0.32, 11.73±0.09, 17.56±0.52. In normal tissues, Heavenly T₂ FLAIR obtained high results, but in disease evaluation, high results were obtained at DWI, b=1000 (p<0.05). In addition, in the qualitative analysis, overall image quality, lesion conspicuity, image distortion, susceptibility artifact and ghost artifact aspects of the Heavily T₂ FLAIR were evaluated, and 3.75±0.28, 2.29±0.24, 3.86±0.23, 4.08±0.21, 3.79±0.22 values were found, respectively, and 2.53±0.39, 4.13±0.29, 1.90±0.20, 1.81±0.21, 1.52±0.45 in DWI. As a result of qualitative analysis, overall image quality, image distortion, susceptibility artifact and ghost artifact were rated higher than DWI. However, DWI was evaluated higher in lesion conspicuity (p<0.05). In normal tissues, the level of Heavenly T₂ FLAIR was higher, but the DWI technique was higher in the evaluation of the disease (tumor). The two results were necessary techniques depending on the normal site and the location of the disease. In conclusion, statistically significant results were obtained from the two techniques. In quantitative and qualitative analysis, the two techniques had advantages and disadvantages, and in normal and disease evaluation, the two techniques produced useful results. These results are believed to be educational data for clinical basic evaluation and MRI in the future.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.87-95
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• 2019

점차 고도화되는 사이버 공격에 의한 많은 침해사고로 피해가 증가하고 있다. 많은 기관 및 기업체에서는 사고 탐지를 위한 인프라만에 많은 자원을 투자하기에 초기대응에 미흡하다. 침해사고의 초기대응은 공격의 유입경로 파악이 우선이며, 이루어지고 있는 많은 사이버 공격은 소프트웨어 취약점을 대상으로 하고 있다. 따라서, 소프트웨어 취약점을 대상으로 윈도우 시스템의 아티팩트를 분석하고, 분석한 데이터를 분류하면 신속한 초기대응에 활용할 수 있다. 그러므로 소프트웨어 별 공격 유입 시 남는 아티팩트를 분류하여 침해사고 분석 시에 활용할 수 있는 아티팩트 그룹핑을 제시한다.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2024

Purpose: To improve the image quality in positron emission tomography (PET), the attenuation correction technique based on the computed tomography (CT) data is important process. However, the artifact is caused by metal material during PET/CT scan, and the image quality is degraded. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate image quality according to with and without iterative metal artifact reduction (iMAR) algorithm using customized 3D printing phantom. Materials and Methods: The Hoffman and Derenzo phantoms were designed. To protect the gamma ray transmission and express the metal portion, lead substance was located to the surface. The SiPM based PET/CT was used for acquisition of PET images according to application with and without iMAR algorithm. The quantitative methods were used by signal to noise ratio (SNR), coefficient of variation (COV), and contrast to noise ratio (CNR). Results and Discussion: The results shows that the image quality applying iMAR algorithm was higher 1.15, 1.19, and 1.11 times than image quality without iMAR algorithm for SNR, COV, and CNR. Conclusion: In conclusion, the iMAR algorithm was useful for improvement of image quality by reducing the metal artifact lesion.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.1109-1114
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• 2018

뇌파(Electroencephalogram, EEG)는 외부 자극 때문에 발생하는 뇌 활동을 연구하기 위해 사용되는 도구로 두피에 전극을 부착하여 기록한다. 이 과정에서 잡파(artifact)가 혼입되어 신호를 왜곡시키기 쉬워 이를 제거하기 위한 후처리가 필수적이다. 잡파 제거를 위해 널리 사용되는 방법으로 독립성분분석(Independent Component Analysis, ICA)이 존재한다. 이 방법은 성능은 우수하나 뇌파 정보를 일부 손실시키는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 보완하기 위해 시선 추적 센서(Eyetracker)를 통해 얻은 눈 깜빡임 정보를 이용하여 필터 적용 범위를 제한함으로써 뇌파 정보 손실을 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 이후 신호 대 잡음 비(Signal to Noise Ratio, SNR), 스펙트럼 일관성(Spectral Coherence, SC) 등의 정량화 방법을 이용하여 기존의 방법과 제안하는 방법의 결과를 비교하였다.