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Liver Tumor Detection Using Texture PCA of CT Images (CT영상의 텍스처 주성분 분석을 이용한 간종양 검출)

  • Sur, Hyung-Soo;Chong, Min-Young;Lee, Chil-Woo
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.13B no.6 s.109
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    • pp.601-606
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    • 2006
  • The image data amount that used in medical institution with great development of medical technology is increasing rapidly. Therefore, people need automation method that use image processing description than macrography of doctors for analysis many medical image. In this paper. we propose that acquire texture information to using GLCM about liver area of abdomen CT image, and automatically detects liver tumor using PCA from this data. Method by one feature as intensity of existent liver humor detection was most but we changed into 4 principal component accumulation images using GLCM's texture information 8 feature. Experiment result, 4 principal component accumulation image's variance percentage is 89.9%. It was seen this compare with liver tumor detecting that use only intensity about 92%. This means that can detect liver tumor even if reduce from dimension of image data to 4 dimensions that is the half in 8 dimensions.

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in children: differential diagnosis from multiple sclerosis on the basis of clinical course

  • Lee, Yun-Jin
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • v.54 no.6
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    • pp.234-240
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    • 2011
  • Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that typically presents as a monophasic disorder associated with multifocal neurologic symptoms and encephalopathy. ADEM is considered an autoimmune disorder that is triggered by an environmental stimulus in genetically susceptible individuals. The diagnosis of ADEM is based on clinical and radiological features. Most children with ADEM initially present with fever, meningeal signs, and acute encephalopathy. The level of consciousness ranges from lethargy to frank coma. Deep and subcortical white-matter lesions and gray-matter lesions such as thalami and basal ganglia on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are associated with ADEM. In a child who presents with signs of encephalitis, bacterial and viral meningitis or encephalitis must be ruled out. Sequential MRI is required to confirm the diagnosis of ADEM, as relapses with the appearance of new lesions on MRI may suggest either multiphasic ADEM or multiple sclerosis (MS). Pediatric MS, defined as onset of MS before the age of 16, is being increasingly recognized. MS is characterized by recurrent episodes of demyelination in the CNS separated in space and time. The McDonald criteria for diagnosis of MS include evidence from MRI and allow the clinician to make a diagnosis of clinically definite MS on the basis of the interval preceding the development of new white matter lesions, even in the absence of new clinical findings. The most important alternative diagnosis to MS is ADEM. At the initial presentation, the 2 disorders cannot be distinguished with certainty. Therefore, prolonged follow-up is needed to establish a diagnosis.

Petrologic Study on the so-called Schistose Granites in the northeastern part of the Kwangju (광주(光州) 북동부(北東部)에 분포(分布)하는 소위(所謂) 편상화강암(片狀花崗岩)에 관(關)한 암석학적(岩石學的) 연구(硏究))

  • Kim, Jeong Bin;Kim, Yong Jun
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.197-214
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    • 1984
  • This studg is to clarify intrusion sequence and petrogenetic processes of the so-called schistose granites in the northeastheastern part of the Kwangju, Chonnam Province. The study area is composed of the Pre-cambrian and Unknown age metasediments, the Unknown age schistose granites and basic plutons, the Cretaceous sedimentary and volcanic rocks, and the Cretaceous Ogang-ri granite and dykes. The schistose granites of the study area is divided into three rock units based on relative intrusion age, mineralogical constituent and texture;SoonChang schistose granite, two mica granite and Sam-o-ri schistose granite. The schistose granites intruded into metasediments, are intruded by Ogang-ri granite and dikes, and overlain by the Cretaceous sedimentary and volcanic rocks. The schistose granites vary widely in composition (granite-granodiorite-tonalite) and content of porphyroblastic feldspar Caugen and rectangular shaped). The foliation of schistose granites shows similar trend to the Shinian direction. In especially, strong foliation reflects dynamic metamorphism by mortar texture and much content of well oriented biotite. These schistose granites are characterized by its gray feldspar porphyroblasts. This feldspar is considered to be formed by potassic metasomatism and assimilation of pelitic metasediments of unexposed highly metamorphosed rocks deeply buried under the level of the schistose granites emplacement. Variation of silica versus oxides of major elements shows that the schistose granites are similar to the trend of Daly's average basalt-andesite-dacite-rhyolite which shows the trend of the fractional crystallization of magma. AMF diagram shows that the schistose granite is corresponded to contaminated differentiation products such as Lower California batholith and Cascade lava. These evidence suggest that the schistose granite is a series of differentiation products formed by fractional crystallization that associated with srtongly contamination and potassic metasomatism.

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A Study on Application of Remote Sensing for Thermal Plume Analysis (온배수 확산분석을 위한 Remote Sensing 활용에 관한 연구)

  • Yeu, Bock-Mo;Cho, Gi-Sung
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.1 no.2 s.2
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    • pp.185-194
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    • 1993
  • In this research, the image obtained by TM platformed in the LANDSAT-5 and the terrestrial infrared image obtained by the Thermo Tracer were employed in order to search the distribution of industrial thermal plume discharged into seas. Sea surface temperature distributions were deduced based on the infrared band 6 in the TM image of the LANDSAT by employing the transformal formula provided by the CSFC of the NASA and post-calibration values. The temperature distributions were also obtained with the processing mode of the TH1100 series from the terrestrial thermal image or the Thermo tracer. According to the results of the image analyses with this methods, it was found that sea surface temperatures in shallow coastal area largely affected by the temperatures of the freshwater and inland and that the range and the area of distribution of the thermal plume can be visualized quantitatively. Furthermore, when the terrestrial thermal infrared scanner is used, the more details of the distribution range can be obtained, and the image results are comparable to those obtained from the LNADSTA.

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밀리미터파 레이다 시스템을 이용한 전력선 검출

  • Kang, Gum-Sil;Yong, Sang-Soon;Kang, Song-Doug;Kim, Jong-Ah;Chang, Young-Jun
    • Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.242-250
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes the detection method of wire-like obstacles using millimeter-wave radar system. Passive sensor like CCD camera can be used for the detection of high power electric cables on the hills or mountains and it can give very good quality of obstacle target information. But this system is very limited to use by bad weather condition. The detection capability for different diameters of wire targets using millimeter radar system have been accomplished. To simulate the target on the moving helicopter, rotating targets are used with fixed radar system. In the experiment 11mm, 16mm and 22mm diameter of wires have been detected in single, two and three wires in one position. The detected signal from single wire was very clear on gray level image. Three wires placed very closely together could be recognized in range, cross range image plane. For two and three wires, blur effect due to mutual scattering effect is observed.

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A Study on Recognition of New Car License Plates Using Morphological Characteristics and a Fuzzy ART Algorithm (형태학적 특징과 퍼지 ART 알고리즘을 이용한 신 차량 번호판 인식에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kwang-Baek;Woo, Young-Woon;Cho, Jae-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.273-278
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    • 2008
  • Cars attaching new license plates are increasing after introducing the new format of car license plate in Korea. Therefore, a car new license plate recognition system is required for various fields using automatic recognition of car license plates, automatic parking management systems and arrest of criminal or missing vehicles. In this paper, we proposed an intelligent new car license plate recognition method for the various fields. The proposed method is as follows. First of all, an acquired color image from a surveillance camera is converted to a gray level image and binarized by block binarization method. Second, noises of the binarized image removed by morphological characteristics of cars and then license plate area is extracted. Third, individual characters are extracted from the extracted license plate area using Grassfire algorithm. lastly, the extracted characters are learned and recognized by a fuzzy ART algorithm for final car license plate recognition. In the experiment using 100 car images, we could see that the proposed method is efficient.

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Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Botrytis cinerea Occurring in Korea (우리나라에 발생하는 잿빛곰팡이병균 Botrytis cinerea의 분자계통학적 유연관계)

  • Back, Chang-Gi;Lee, Seung-Yeol;Jung, Hee-Young
    • The Korean Journal of Mycology
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.138-143
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    • 2014
  • Several isolates were collected from apple, pepper, strawberry, cucumber and tomato having typical gray mold symptoms. All the isolates were identified as Botrytis cinerea by using morphological characteristics and PCR-RFLP method. It was difficult to analyze the phylogenetic relationship of these isolates by using ITS region, HSP60 and G3PDH because these genes were highly homologous in their nucleotide in inter-species of B. cinerea and intra-species of genus Botrytis. However, phylogenetic analysis using combined sequences (RPB2, HSP60 and G3PDH genes) clearly showed that all isolate of B. cinerea were different from Botrytis spp. Furthermore, it was also confirmed that strawberry isolate was distantly related to apple, pepper, cucumber and tomato isolates that were closely related to each other in nucleotide level.

A Study on the Rainwater Quality Monitoring and the Improvement, Collection and Storage System (빗물 집수 및 저장 시스템 개선과 수질 분석 모니터링)

  • Kim, Chul-Kyung
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.353-362
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    • 2011
  • In our nature, the utilization of rainwater is essential for healthy water recirculation. This is one of the solutions of the increment of impermeability surface according to the development of new cities; this study of the improvement of rainwater quality has been carried on through the improvement of collecting and restoring system of rainwater. The southwestern region of Daejeon City, the rainwater coefficient of run off was 0.40 and this number had computed to 0.59 after the development. After filtration of rainwater, the heavy metal (Cu, As, Cr, Fe, Mn) contents level were lower than underground water. Moreover, collected rainwater showed better quality than underground water in following criteria; hardness, permanganate consumption quality, chloride, evaporation residue, sulfates and nitrate nitrogen. This water quality met the gray water quality standards. The rainwater quality was still suitable to use as bathroom flushing and gardening after 100 days of storage. This study proved that modification (installation of cover with gutter to existing rainwater collection system, proper filtering, and installation of underground storage tank) of collection system could improve quality of water and maintain this approximately 100 days.

Contrast Enhancement of Remotely Sensed Images Using Histogram Equalization (히스토그램 평활화를 이용한 원격감지 영상의 콘트라스트 향상)

  • Seo, Yong-Su
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.11 no.1 s.24
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    • pp.13-19
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    • 2003
  • In this paper we discussed the processing procedures of histogram equalization(HE) method and brightness preserving bi-histogram equalization(BBHE) method in the contrast enhancement methods for the performance comparison. With remotely sensed image data of Landsat TM we compared the performances of three methods of Min-Max method, HE method, BBHE method. The experimental results demonstrate that the HE method and BBHE method are more effective in the contrast enhancement performances than the Min-Max method. In the HE method the mean brightness of the resultant output images approached to the middle gray level with regardless of input image mean. In the BBHE method, it is capable of preserving the mean brightness of a original image compared to the HE method while enhancing the contrast of original image effectively. Thus BBHE method is provided more natural enhancement effect than the HE method.

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Metallurgical Analysis of Forged Iron Axe Excavated from the Wood-framed Tomb at the Hwangseongdong, Gyeongju, Korea (경주 황성동 목곽묘에서 출토된 단조 철부의 금속학적 특성 분석)

  • Lee, Chan-Hee;Lee, Myeong-Seong;Kim, Jeong-Hun;Yi, Ki-Wook
    • 한국문화재보존과학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.33-42
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    • 2004
  • The forged iron axe found in the No. 2 wood-framed tomb (the middle 3rd century) of Hwangseongdong, Gyeongju is rectangular on the plane level. It shows an obtuse angle in the edge part, while the joint part has the both sides folded up and shows the traces of wood. Under the reflected light, the Iron axe shines in metal luster, which is bright light gray or light creamy colors. The result of x-ray diffraction analysis shows that the axe consists of magnetite and geothite, which can explain why the composition and structure of the original ore has been kept intact. The microtexture of the axe has the irregular network of ferrite and pearlite, and tile cementite of tiny amount in the ferrite background. The overall treatment of the texture seems to be thermal with a high ratio of carbon. There are fine-grained magnetite, wolframite, quartz, calcite, mica, hornblende and pyroxene inside the axe. Those must be the impurities that they failed to remove in the refining process. The normal ferrite is composed of pure iron whose $Fe_2O_3$ proportion is from 99.16 to $99.84\;wt.\%$. Other than them, the ferrite parts usually contain $Al_2O_3\;and\;SiO_2$. The irregular network of pearlite also contains Impurities including $Al_2O_3\;and\;SiO_2$ and shows highly diverse patterns of carbon content. It's because the axe was carburized after the material was made to resemble pure iron. The decarbonization work didn't go well along the process marks. It's estimated that the original ore was bloom produced in low-temperature reduction and formed around in $727^{\circ}C$, which is eutetic temperature.

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