• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.455-463
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• 2014

This paper presents data from performance tests carried out to assess a manganese nodule crusher. Manganese nodules should be crushed into smaller pieces in order to assure the slurry flow of the lifting system. Both artificial nodules and real manganese nodules are used to evaluate nodule breaking ability of the crusher. The crushing performance of the crusher depends on the flow rate and pressure of the power transmission device. The size of the crushed manganese nodules also depends on the shape of the crushing drum. In this paper, several comparative tests are carried out to evaluate and improve the crushing performance and find the optimal design point of the crusher.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.137-142
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• 2012

The temporal subtraction technique as one of computer aided diagnosis has been introduced in medical fields to enhance the interval changes such as formation of new lesions and changes in existing abnormalities on deference image. With the temporal subtraction technique radiologists can easily detect lung nodules on visual screening. Until now, two-dimensional temporal subtraction imaging technique has been introduced for the clinical test. We have developed new temporal subtraction method to remove the subtraction artifacts which is caused by mis-registration on temporal subtraction images of lungs on MDCT images. In this paper, we propose a new computer aided diagnosis scheme for automatic enhancing the lung nodules from the temporal subtraction of thoracic MDCT images. At first, the candidates regions included nodules are detected by the multiple threshold technique in terms of the pixel value on the temporal subtraction images. Then, a rule-base method and artificial neural networks is utilized to remove the false positives of nodule candidates which is obtained temporal subtraction images. We have applied our detection of lung nodules to 30 thoracic MDCT image sets including lung nodules. With the detection method, satisfactory experimental results are obtained. Some experimental results are shown with discussion.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.653-660
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• 2016

Snakehead, Channa argus were intraperitoneally infected with Nocardia seriolae. at the concentrations of $1.5{\times}10^7cfu/m{\ell}$ or $1.5{\times}10^8cfu/m{\ell}$. The infected fish were kept in aquaria at $25^{\circ}C$ and $30^{\circ}C$ for 3 weeks. Clinical signs and mortality were monitored daily to evaluate the virulence. All artificially infected fish showed the same clinical sign found in naturally infected fish. All the fish infected with $1.5{\times}10^8cfu/m{\ell}$ of N. seriolae died within 24days. N. seriolae showed higher virulence to snakehead at the temperature $30^{\circ}C$. Internal lesions such as whitish nodules in the infected internal organs were not correlated with mortality but some degenerative changes were observed in all the infected organs within a week. Whitish nodules in the infected organs which are the typical character in nocardial infection was initially found at two weeks after the artificial infection in snakehead.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.21-28
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• 1971

Dry matter production, leaf area growth and total nitrogen changes were studied in Glycine max. soybean communities, which were grown in sandy loam soils controlled to provide various moisture levels, i.e., 5-7%(level 1), 8-10%(level 2), 11-13%(level 3), 14-15%(lev디 4), 17-20%(level 5) and 22-24%(level 6). A summary of the results is shown. The maximum dry matter production of leaves, stems and nodules and the maximum leaf area per unit area were at level 5, but the maximum of root dry matter production was at level 4. Total nitrogen content of the soybean plant decreased with growth, but each level of soil moisture content also showed a little difference. Water content of the plant decreased with plant age and soil water deficiency, especially in roots and nodules. Nodule formation increased in proportion to soil moisture content. total nitrogen content of the soil on which the soybeans grew, increased from 0.23% before sowing to 0.30% at 100 days after sowing. It seems that soil water content acts as a linear factor in the elongation or dry weight increase of shoots and roots until increasing to level 5. Considering the pattern of plant growth through analysis of the shoot and root dry weight ratio, or the photosynthetic organ and non-photosynthetic organ dry weight ratio, the asymptote of plant growth at a high soil water content exceeded that at a low soil water content.

• 대한영상의학회지
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• 제85권4호
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• pp.705-713
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• 2024

본 종설에서는 모니터코퍼레이션(주)의 폐결절 검출을 위한 인공지능 기반 컴퓨터 보조 병변 검출(artificial intelligence-based computer-aided detection; 이하 AI-CAD) 소프트웨어 LuCAS-plus의 임상적 활용에 관한 연구와 실제 사용 경험을 기술하였다. AI-CAD의 폐암 검진에 대한 임상시험에서는 민감도와 특이도 측면에서 의료진의 판단과 비슷한 수준의 성능을 보였으며, 악성 종양의 폐전이 진단에 적용한 실증연구에서도 높은 검출 성능을 보여주었다. 또한 폐전이 진단에서 AI-CAD와 결절 매칭 알고리즘을 함께 사용할 경우 위양성 결과를 유의하게 감소시킬 수 있었다. 실제 판독에서도 AI-CAD를 적용함으로써 흉부 CT 판독의 정확성을 향상시키고, 판독에 드는 시간과 노력을 절약할 수 있었다. 종합하면, 폐결절 검출 AI-CAD는 폐암 검진과 악성 종양 경과 관찰 흉부 CT 판독에 유의한 도움을 줄 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.113-119
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• 1999

The most common cause of death is ostrich chick fading syndrome(OCFS), which is due to bacterial infection during artificial incubation and hatching. Six farmed ostrich chicks aged 3 and 10 days in Chonbuk province, were submitted to Chonbuk Livestock Development and Research Institute for necropsy, Clinically, birds showed hair loss, ocular exudate, lethargy, diarrhea, and subsequently died 3-5 days after onset of clinical signs. Grossly, umbilicus was enlarged. White-yellowish purulent nodules were scattered on the lung and the membrane of air-sac was thickened and had inflamed exudate on the surface in two chicks that died 3 days after hatching. In 10 days-old chick, intestine was shown rodding segmentally. Yolk sac was still retarded and its surface was partially hemorrahgic. The synovial fluid of the leg was yellowish. Microscopically, multifocal purulent exudates were scattered on the lung. Capillary microthrombi in the glomerulus were prominent and tubular epithelia were necrotic. Necrotic hepatocytes were scattered and intestine were congested. Microbiologically, Pseudomonas sp and/or E coli were isolated from air-sac, lung and/or liver. This case suggests that poor hygiene during artificial incubation, hatching or in the first week after hatching may cause high mortality of the ostrich chicks.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.116-121
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• 2006

Fundamental investigations have been carried out to find the applicability of manganese nodule as an adsorbent of nickel ion with an intention that nickel can be secured in manganese nodule along with the treatment of wastewater. The average content of manganese in nodules which used in the experiments was about 27%. The content of nickel in manganese nodules was observed to increase up to 4 times higher with comparison to its original value after adsorption. When the initial concentration of nickel ion in artificial wastewater was lower than 500 mg/L, its adsorbed amount on manganese nodule was shown to increase continuously. However, no more than about 82 mg/L of nickel was attained at higher initial nickel ion concentration than 500 mg/L. The adsorption of nickel ion was increased with temperature under experimental conditions and as the size of manganese nodule particles became smaller more nickel ion was adsorbed on adsorbent. Regarding the effect of pH, the adsorption of nickel ion was more hindered as the solution became acidic. Adsorption behavior of nickel ion on manganese nodule was found to follow the Freundlich model well and kinetic analysis showed that the adsorption reaction of nickel ion was second order. Thermodynamic parameters for the nickel ion adsorption were estimated on the basis of thermodynamic equations and they were in good agreement with experimental results.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.468-475
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• 2020

In this paper, we proposed a three-dimensional visualization system for medical images in augmented reality based on deep learning. In the proposed system, the artificial neural network model performed fully automatic segmentation of the region of lung and pulmonary nodule from chest CT images. After applying the three-dimensional volume rendering method to the segmented images, it was visualized in augmented reality devices. As a result of the experiment, when nodules were present in the region of lung, it could be easily distinguished with the naked eye. Also, the location and shape of the lesions were intuitively confirmed. The evaluation was accomplished by comparing automated segmentation results of the test dataset to the manual segmented image. Through the evaluation of the segmentation model, we obtained the region of lung DSC (Dice Similarity Coefficient) of 98.77%, precision of 98.45%, recall of 99.10%. And the region of pulmonary nodule DSC of 91.88%, precision of 93.05%, recall of 90.94%. If this proposed system will be applied in medical fields such as medical practice and medical education, it is expected that it can contribute to custom organ modeling, lesion analysis, and surgical education and training of patients.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.425-435
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 암석비탈면 등에서 주요 녹화식물로 많이 이용되고 있는 등나무를 대상으로 황폐지 토양조건에서 인위적으로 함수율을 조절하여 등나무의 내건성과 토양수분조건에 따른 생장특성을 시험하였는 바, 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 등나무 묘목은 토양함수율 5% 수준에서 수분 스트레스를 받아 고사하였고, 토양함수율 10% 수준에서는 전 생장기간 동안 생장률에 큰 변화가 없었다. 따라서 본 시험토양에서 토양함수율 5% 수준이 등나무 모목의 위조함수율이며, 토양함수율 10% 수준이 생장에 대한 임계토양수분 범위로서, 등나무는 내건성이 있는 것으로 확인되었다. 2. 묘목의 신장생장, 직경생장, 엽생장, 총 건물생산량 등의 주요 생장요소들을 기준으로 분석한 결과등나무 묘목의 생장은 전반적으로 토양함수율이 높을수록 양호하였으며, 이들 각 생장요소들(Y)은 토양함수율(W)에 대해 Y=a+bW+cW2의 곡선형을 나타내었다. 3. 토양함수율 20 % 이상에서는 생장기간이 길어질수록 묘목 생장량이 뚜렷이 증가하였으며, 각 토양함수율 수준에서 묘목 생장량(Y)은 생장기간(D)에 대해 Y=a+bD+cD2의 곡선형을 나타내었다. 4. 토양함수율 20% 이상에서는 동일한 수분조건에서 근류균 접종구는 대조구에 비해 총 건물생산량을 기준으로 하면 평균 30%의 생장촉진효과가 있었다. 5. 근류균은 토양함수율이 높을수록 접종이 용이하고 근류의 형성량도 많았다.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제56권5호
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• pp.501-507
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• 2018

We described here the morphological characteristics for the species identification and fish hosts of Isoparorchis sp. (Digenea: Isoparorchiidae) in the Republic of Korea (Korea). Total 1,371 freshwater fishes collected in Yangcheon (Stream) in Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do were examined by the artificial digestion methods to survey the infection status of digenetic trematode metacercariae for 4 years (2013-2016). Adult and larval worms of Isoparorchis sp. were detected in 38 (8.4%) out of 451 fish in 4 species, i.e., Pungtungia herzi, Acheilognathus koreensis, Squalidus japonicus coreanus and Odontobutis platycephala, examined. The infection density was 1.1 worm per fish infected. They were mainly found in the subcutaneous tissues and abdominal cavities. Nodules with worms in the subcutaneous tissues were revealed as the blue ink-colored bulges. Adults leaf-like, $21.6{\times}9.84mm$ in average size. The ratio of body length to body width was 2.20: 1. Oral sucker subterminal, $1.03{\times}1.22mm$. Pharynx muscular, $0.55{\times}0.54mm$. Esophagus very short. Ceca convoluted, terminated near the posterior end. Ventral sucker anterior 1/3.75, $1.99{\times}2.10mm$. The ratio of ventral sucker to oral sucker was 1.74: 1. Testes round to elliptical, both sides of ventral sucker, $1.43{\times}1.33mm$. Vitellaria highly dendritic, posterior 1/3 level. Eggs operculated, embryonated, $52{\times}32{\mu}m$ in size. By the present study, 4 fish species aforementioned are to be listed as the fish hosts of Isoparorchis sp. in Korea and additionally the morphological characteristics are to be described for the species identification.