• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.476-481
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• 2009

The most troublesome artifacts in micro computed tomography (micro-CT) are ring artifacts. The ring artifacts are caused by non-uniform sensitivity and defective pixels of the x-ray detector. These ring artifacts seriously degrade the quality of CT images. In flat-panel detector based micro-CT systems, the ring artifacts are hardly removed by conventional correction methods of digital radiography, because very small difference of detector pixel signals may make severe ring artifacts. This paper presents a novel method to remove ring artifacts in flat-panel detector based micro-CT systems. First, the bad lines of a sinogram which are caused by defective pixels of the detector are identified, and then, they are corrected using a cubic spline interpolation technique. Finally, a ring artifacts free image is reconstructed from the corrected projections. We applied the method to various kinds of objects and found that the image qualities were much improved.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.82-89
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• 2006

최근 가스 터빈 엔진의 설계에 있어서 엔진 운용 및 정비에 소요되는 비용은 중요한 설계변수로 대두되었다. 이에 따라 엔진의 유지 및 보수가 조립상태에서 이루어져야 한다는 개념이 확대되고 있으나, 실제로 이것은 엔진의 상태를 정확히 예측할 수 있을 때에만 가능한 것이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 항공기에 장착/운용 중인 각 성능요소들을 측정하고 분석하여 엔진 성능을 진단하는 가스경로해석과 퍼지로직을 적용한 엔진 성능진단 코드를 개발하였으며, 이를 스마트 무인기용 터보축 엔진에 적용하여 지상 정지 상태에서의 엔진의 단일 성능저하를 정량적으로 예측하였다.

• 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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• 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 1992년도 제4회 한글 및 한국어정보처리 학술대회
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• pp.581-590
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• 1992

고품위 입출력 장치의 급속한 발달과 전자 출판 시스템의 출현은 더 다양한 서체를 요구하게 되었다. 컴퓨터에서 사용되고 있는 한글 서체는 명조, 고딕체를 제외하고는 주로 장식용 폰트를 만들어 사용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 Cubic B-Spline 곡선을 이용하여 다양한 필기체 폰트를 구현하였고, 필기체가 가지는 특성(날림의 정도, 글자의 기울이기 정도, 각 음소의 크기, 각 글자의 크기의 균일성 등)에 따라 인자를 부여하여 개별화되고 사실적인 폰트를 생성하였다. 각 인자의 조합은 암호화되어 각 개인의 폰트로 부여된다. 즉, 개인의 고유 폰트는 폰트 암호(password)로 부여되고, 제어인자는 폰트암호의 해쉬값에 의해 선택되며, 사용자들로부터 이 제어인자들을 숨기게 되면 각 사용자들의 폰트는 유일하고, 안전하게 되므로, 일정정도의 안정성이 보장된다고 보여진다. 그리고 본 연구에서 구현된 폰트는 한글 필기체 문자인식의 정도를 측정하는 다양한 데이타를 제공하는 데에도 의미가 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2017년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.478-481
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 기존의 삼각형 타입의 퍼지 스트레칭을 개선한 사다리꼴 형태의 퍼지 스트레칭 기법과 FCM 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하여 결절종을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 결절종 추출방법은 결절종 영역과 그 외의 영역 간의 명암 대비를 강조하기 위해 사다리꼴 형태의 퍼지 스트레칭 기법을 적용한 후에 Monotone Cubic Spline 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에 대해 FCM 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하고 양자화된 결과를 이용하여 ROI 영역을 이진화한다. 결절종이 타원 형태와 명암도가 낮은 값을 가진다는 형태학적 특징을 이용하기 위해서 이진화 ROI 영역에 팽창 기법을 적용하여 결절종의 후보 영역을 추출하고 8방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 잡음 영역이 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 결절종 후보 영역에서 최종 결절종 영역을 추출하기 위해 라벨링 기법을 적용한다. 제안된 결절종 추출 방법의 성능을 분석하기 위해서 20명의 환자를 대상으로 20장을 실험한 결과, 기존의 방법보다 TPR(Ture Positive Rate)이 높게 나타나는 것을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.301-314
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• 2015

Aiming at accurately distinguishing modeless component and natural vibration mode terms from data series of nonlinear and non-stationary processes, such as Vortex-Induced Vibration (VIV), a new empirical mode decomposition method has been developed in this paper. The key innovation related to this technique concerns the method to decompose modeless component from non-stationary process, characterized by a predetermined 'maximum intrinsic time window' and cubic spline. The introduction of conceptual modeless component eliminates the requirement of using spurious harmonics to represent nonlinear and non-stationary signals and then makes subsequent modal identification more accurate and meaningful. It neither slacks the vibration power of natural modes nor aggrandizes spurious energy of modeless component. The scale of the maximum intrinsic time window has been well designed, avoiding energy aliasing in data processing. Finally, it has been applied to analyze data series of vortex-induced vibration processes. Taking advantage of this newly introduced empirical decomposition method and mode identification technique, the vibration analysis about vortex-induced vibration becomes more meaningful.

• EDISON SW 활용 경진대회 논문집
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• 제5회(2016년)
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• pp.183-189
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• 2016

In this paper, an optimization study on a helicopter rotor blade cross-section was made. Generalization was made to the baseline cross-section to simplify the analysis. To have better performance in aeroelastic response, with the aerodynamic center being the origin of the baseline, the distance between aerodynamic center and shear center, and the distance between mass center and shear center of the blade were minimized. For efficient searching of optimum solutions over the design space, grid search method, which is a method of graphical search was used. Two design variables, radius of balancing weight at leading edge, and offset of the spar from leading edge were selected for the study. Cubic spline interpolation method was used to accommodate searching of the optimum solution. 2-Leveled searching system was devised in accordance with the interpolation method. Optimum solution was found to show 6% decrease in both distance between aerodynamic center and shear center, and mass center and shear center to the baseline.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.283-287
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• 1996

This paper described the estimator and eliminator far three kinds of artifacts in electrocardiogram. The most efficient estimation of baseline drift could be obtain in the cubic spline interpolation method with the PQ and TP segment which are considered to be isoelectric, from the experimental results obtained from the applied 4 types of algorithms. The time loss and distortion could be avoided with the aid of detection criteria by checking if baseline drifts exist or not. The AIEF proposed in this paper was verified as having the best removal performance with less distortion in the QRS complex through the comparison of 5 proposed algorithms. furthermore, the AIEF are most suitable far the ECG analyzer which was only needed relatively short time data due to the fast conversion into the stable state. The proposed parabolic filter with 11 points width was identified as having the best performance for the elimination of muscle artifacts. Also we could obtain 99.7% detection accuracy of spike component and minimize the error identifying QRS complex as spike.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.468-478
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• 2021

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to analyze the association between dietary omega-3 fatty acid intake and depression in postmenopausal women using data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) VI. SUBJECTS/METHODS: The KNHANES is a cross-sectional nationwide health and nutrition survey. Dietary data, including omega-3 fatty acids, were assessed using the 24-h recall method. Depression was evaluated using a survey questionnaire. The association between dietary omega-3 fatty acids and depression was evaluated using multivariate logistic regression analysis. Depression, according to the dietary omega-3 fatty acid intake, was expressed as the odds ratio (OR) with a 95% confidence interval (CI). A total of 4,150 postmenopausal women were included in the analysis. RESULTS: In the fully-adjusted model, the group with the highest dietary omega-3 fatty acid intake significantly showed lower prevalence of depression than the group with the lowest intake (OR, 0.52; 95% CI, 0.33-0.83); a significant linear trend was detected (P for trend = 0.04). According to the dose-response analysis using cubic restricted spline regression, this association was linear and monotonic (P for non-linearity = 0.32). CONCLUSIONS: In this study, the dietary omega-3 fatty acid intake in postmenopausal women was inversely proportional to depression in a dose-response manner. Large cohort studies are needed to verify the causality between omega-3 fatty acids and depression in Korean postmenopausal women.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제85권1호
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• pp.119-133
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• 2023

Impact event is the key factor influencing the operational state of the mechanical equipment. Additionally, nonlinear factors existing in the complex mechanical equipment which are currently attracting more and more attention. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel hybrid-separate identification strategy to solve the force identification problem of the nonlinear structure under impact excitation. The 'hybrid' means that the identification strategy contains both l1-norm (sparse) and l2-norm regularization methods. The 'separate' means that the nonlinear response part only generated by nonlinear force needs to be separated from measured response. First, the state-of-the-art two-step iterative shrinkage/thresholding (TwIST) algorithm and sparse representation with the cubic B-spline function are developed to solve established normalized sparse regularization model to identify the accurate impact force and accurate peak value of the nonlinear force. Then, the identified impact force is substituted into the nonlinear response separation equation to obtain the nonlinear response part. Finally, a reduced transfer equation is established and solved by the classical Tikhonove regularization method to obtain the wave profile (variation trend) of the nonlinear force. Numerical and experimental identification results demonstrate that the novel hybrid-separate strategy can accurately and efficiently obtain the nonlinear force and impact force for the nonlinear structure.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.81-92
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• 2022

To analyze the relationship between climatic factors (mean monthly temperature and total precipitation) and tree-ring growths of Pinus densiflora S. et Z. from National Parks (according to region) of the Korea, 20 trees were sampled from 13 National Parks. Only trees that were successfully cross-dated were used for dendrochronological analysis, and at least 11 trees were included. The tree-ring chronology of Mt. Bukhan (covering the shortest period of 1917 - 2016 [100 years]) was assessed, as well as that of Mt. Seorak (covering the longest period of 1687 - 2017 [331 years]). After cross-dating, each ring width series was double-standardized by first fitting a logarithmic curve and then a 50-year cubic spline. The relationships between climate and tree-ring growth were calculated with response function analysis. The results show a significant positive correlation between a given year's February-March temperature, May precipitation levels, and tree-ring growth. It indicates that a higher temperature in early spring and precipitation before cambium activity are important for radial growths of Pinus densiflora in the Korea.