• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.332-337
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• 2007

In the early twenty-first century, minimally invasive surgery is the mainstay of various kinds of surgical fields. Surgeons gave percutaneously surgical treatment of the screw directly using a fluoroscopic view in the past. The latest date, they began to operate the fractured carpal bone surgery using Computerized Tomography (CT). Carpal bones composed of wrist joint consist of eight small bones which have hexahedron and sponge shape. Because of these shape, it is difficult to grasp the shape of carpal bones using only CT image data. Although several image segmentation studies have been conducted with carpal bone CT image data, more studies about carpal bone using CT data are still required. Especially, to apply the software implemented from the studies to clinical fIeld, the outcomes should be user friendly and very accurate. To satisfy those conditions, we propose modified multi-seed region growing segmentation method which uses simple threshold and the canny edge detector for finding edge information more accurately. This method is able to use very easily and gives us high accuracy and high speed for extracting the edge information of carpal bones. Especially, using multi-seed points, multi-bone objects of the carpal bone are extracted simultaneously.

• 한국해양학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.12-23
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• 1981

A numerical experiment is made in order to clarify the mechanism of the upwelling phenomenon along the coast near the poleward edge of the western boundary current. The possibility of the upwelling is suggested from the analysis of the observational data in the east of Honshu, Japan, and in the south eastern coast of Korean Peninsula. This upwelling phenomenon is very deep and can be traced to the bottom layer. The upwelling phenomenon seems to be a general oceanic feature which characterizes the region along the west coast near the poleward edge of the western boundary current. This experiment is simulating the oceanic condition of the transition region between Kuroshio front and the Oyashio front in the east of Honshu, Japan. The possible explanations of the causes of the upwelling are as follows;In the interior of the modeled ocean the cold heavy water supplied from the north and the warm light water from the south make the north-south gradient of the pressure field and accelerate the eastward current to produce the h-orizontal divergence feld near the west coast. The divergence is compensated by the upwelling near the separation region. Another one is that the upwell-ed cold water strengthen constantly the pressure gradient which is balanced by the northward current and is weakened by the horizontal diffusion.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.459-467
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• 1997

The steady-state behavior of recycling neutral atoms in a tokamak edge region has been analyzed through a two-dimensional Monte Carlo simulation. A particle tracking algorithm used in earlier research on the neutral particle transport is applied to this Monte Carlo simulation in order to perform more accurate calculations with the EDGETRAN code which was previously developed for a two-dimensional edge plasma transport in the authors' laboratory. The physical model of neutral recycling includes charge-exchange and ionization interactions between plasmas and neutral atoms. The reflection processes of incident particles on the device wall are described by empirical formulas. Calculations for density, energy, and velocity distributions of neutral deuterium-tritium atoms have been carried out for a medium-sized tokamak with a double-null configuration based on the KT-2 conceptual design. The input plasma parameters such as plasma density, ion and electron temperatures, and ion fluid velocity are provided from the EDGETRAN calculations. As a result of the present numerical analysis, it is noticed that a significant drop of the neutral atom density appears in the region of high plasma density and that the similar distribution of neutral energy to that of plasma ions is present as frequently reported in other studies. Relations between edge plasma conditions and the neutral recycling behavior are discussed from the numerical results obtained herein.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:데이타베이스
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.263-279
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• 2009

CBIR(Content-based Image Retrieval) 시스템의 질의 처리에 사용되는 모양 특징은 크게 경계 기반과 영역 기반 등 두 가지로 나눌 수 있다. 경계기반 특징은 간단하지만 영역 기반 특징에 비해 효과적이지 않다. 영역 기반 모양 특징을 사용하는 대부분의 시스템은 먼저 영역을 추출해야 한다. 하지만 기존의 영역 기반 시스템들은 구현이 복잡하고, 특히 정확한 영역 추출이 어려우며 영역 간의 위치적인 관계가 거리 모델(distance model)에 반영되어 있지 않다. 본 논문에서는 Canny 에지 검출과 Hough 변환에 기반하여 목표 내부의 에지를 검출하고, 이와 함께 영역확장을 이용하여 목표 물체 내부의 영역을 정확히 추출할 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 또한 영역 간의 인접 관계를 이용한 수정된 IRM(Integrated Region Matching) 기법을 제안하였다. 이는 모양 특징을 이용한 유사성 검색에서 영상 간의 거리 모델로서 사용된다. 그리고 실험을 통해 수정된 IRM 기법과 우리의 영역 추출 기법이 효과적임을 보였다. 실험 결과는 새로운 영역 추출 방법이 기존의 다른 방법보다 훨씬 우수함을 보여준다.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2004년도 하계학술발표회
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• pp.84-85
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• 2004

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.60-67
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• 1998

Edge detection is the first step and very important step in image analysis. We cast edge detection as a problem in cost minimization. This is achieved by the formulation of a cost function that evaluates the quality of edge configurations. The cost function can be used as a basis for comparing the performances of different detectors. This cost function is made of desirable characteristics of edges such as thickness, continuity, length, region dissimilarity. And we use a simulated annealing algorithm for minimum of cost function. Simulated annealing are a class of adaptive search techniques that have been intensively studied in recent years. We present five strategies for generating candidate states. Experimental results(building image and test image) which verify the usefulness of our simulated annealing approach to edge detection are better than other operator.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제28B권12호
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• pp.51-58
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• 1991

In this paper, we propose a multiresolution edge detection method which selects the edge detection window size and scale automatically by using the local variance information as an edgeness measure of a region. The mode of the local variance distribution which is calculated over the (2p + 1) x (2p + 1) windows is used to determine the resolution of the given pixel and the edge operator with different scale can be applied to the pixel depending on its resolution. The combination of the resolution determination scheme with the conventional Canny and LOG edge detectors gives the proposed multiresolution edge detection schemes. The effectness of the proposed schemes is shown via computer simulation.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.173-176
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• 2007

We present a very simple and efficient bare-wafer inspection method using a knife-edge test. The wafer front surface and inner structures are inspected simultaneously. The wafer front surface is inspected visually using a knife-edge test while the inner structure is simultaneously inspected by a camera in the infrared region with a single white-light source. This paper presents a laboratory implementation of the test method with some experimental results.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.135-139
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• 1996

In this a paper, a new method to measure the wear of the single crystal diamond(SCD) tool using image processing is presented. To increase resoultion, high magnifying lens is used and to enlarge the measurement field of view, a image region matching method is applied. The shape of SCD tool is modeled by mathematical analysis. Cutting edge chipping and wear are calculated by the model. This method is proved to be efficient in detecting a few micron of wear and cutting edge loss by chipping along the whole cutting edge.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2004년도 춘계 학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.51-53
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• 2004

An analytical method is developed which focused on the end effects for determining the thermal stress distribution in an laminated beam bonded with adhesive layer. This method gives the stress distribution which satisfy the stress-free boundary condition at edge completely. Numerical example, in which an Al-Cu beam bonded with solder(Pb-Sn) is treated, shows that the shear and peeling stresses at the interfaces are significant near the edge and become negligible in the interior region.