• 한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국의학물리학회 2002년도 Proceedings
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• pp.38-41
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• 2002

Mammography is considered the single most important diagnostic tool in the early detection of breast cancer. Today's dedicated mammographic equipment, specially designed x-ray screen/film combinations, coupled with controlled film processing, produces excellent image quality and can detect very low contrast small lesions. In mammography, it is most important to produce consistent high-contrast, high-resolution images at the lowest radiation dose consistent with high image quality. Some of the major technical development milestones that have let to today's high quality in mammographic imaging are reviewed. Both the American College of Radiology Mammography Accreditation Program and the Mammography Quality Standards Act have significant impact on the improvement of the technical quality of mammographic images in the United States and worldwide. A most recent development in digital mammography has opened up avenues for improving diagnosis.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제9B권1호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2002

In this paper, an implementation method of the efficient image transmission stage using watermarking and channel ceding is proposed. Usually, image communication system consists of both a transmitter part and a receiver part. The transmitter part takes charge of copyright protection of the generated image data, and image coding and compression that can deal with channel noises when transmitting. In the transmitter part, we propose a channel coding method which protects both the watermark signal and the original signal for protecting the copyright of image data and solving channel noises when transmitting. Firstly, copyright protection of image data is conducted. For this, image structure analysis is performed, and both the improvement of image quality and the generation of the watermark signal are made. Then, the histogram is constructed and the watermark signals are selected from this. At this stage, by embedding of the coefficients of curve fittness into the lower 4 bits of the image data pixels, image quality degradation due to the embedding of watermark signals are prevented. Finally, turbo coding, which has the most efficient error correction capability in error correction codes, has been conducted to protect signals of watermark and preserved original image quality against noises on the transmission channel. Particularly, a new interleaving method named "semi random inter]easer" has been proposed.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.63-73
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 원본 영상에 존재하는 가로축 방향과 세로축 방향의 단순 볼록 곡면 혹은 단순 오목 곡면 특성을 정밀하게 조사한 후, 다양한 곡면의 특성을 효과적으로 활용하여 실제 영상의 픽셀 값에 더욱 근접한 보간 값을 구하고 이를 사용하여 확대 영상을 생성하는 확대 영상의 화질 개선 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법의 절차에 따라 구해진 보간 값은 실제 영상에 존재하는 단순 볼록 곡면, 단순 오목 곡면, 복합 곡면상의 값을 갖게 되기 때문에 실제 영상에 더욱 근접한 확대 영상을 생성할 수 있어 확대 영상의 화질이 향상된다. 제안 기법을 적용하여 확대한 영상의 PSNR 값이 기존의 기법들을 적용하여 확대한 영상의 PSNR 값보다 큰 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.657-660
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• 2009

영상 보간법은 다양한 영상 처리를 위하여 사용되는 기반 기술로서, 보간 과정에서 발생하는 화질열화를 최소화하기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 손실 정보 추정을 이용하여 개선된 양선형 보간법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에서는 획득된 저해상도 영상의 다운 샘플링 및 보간을 통하여 저해상도 영상 생성시 발생하는 손실 정보를 추정하고, 추정한 손실 정보를 고해상도로 보간된 영상에 적용하여 화질 열화를 최소화한다. 동일한 영상을 이용한 실험을 통해서 기존 방법들 보다 0.97~1.79dB의 PSNR이 향상된 것을 알 수 있었고, 윤곽선을 비롯한 주관적 화질 향상을 역시 확인하였다. 제안하는 방법은 영상 해상도 개선과 영상 복원을 위한 다양한 응용 환경에서 유용하게 사용될 수 있다.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.37-52
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• 2022

Over the past decades, radiation therapy combined with imaging modalities that ensure optimal image guidance has revolutionized cancer treatment. The two major purposes of using imaging modalities in radiotherapy are to clearly delineate the target prior to treatment and set up the patient during radiation delivery. Image guidance secures target position prior to and during the treatment. High quality images provide an accurate definition of the treatment target and the possibility to reduce the treatment margin of the target volume, further lowering radiation toxicity and improving the quality of life of cancer patients. In this review, the various types of image guidance modalities used in radiation therapy are distinguished into ionized (kilovoltage and megavoltage image) and nonionized imaging (magnetic resonance image, ultrasound, surface imaging, and radiofrequency). The functional aspects, advantages, and limitation of imaging using these modalities are described as a subsection of each category. This review only focuses on the technological viewpoint of these modalities and any clinical aspects are omitted. Image guidance is essential, and its importance is rapidly increasing in modern radiotherapy. The most important aspect of using image guidance in clinical settings is to monitor the performance of image quality, which must be checked during the periodic quality assurance process.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 흉부 CR 영상에 대하여 다양한 디지털 영상처리 기법을 가하여 영상의 질을 개선시키고 화질 평가를 수행하였다. 또한 흉부 CR 영상의 선예도를 개선하기 위해서 고주파 강조 필터링과 히스토그램 평활화를 MATLAB으로 구현하여 시뮬레이션 한 결과 고주파 강조 필터링과 히스토그램 평활화를 통해서 원영상의 대조도가 개선되었다. 디지털영상처리에 의해 화질의 개선된 정도를 평가하기 위해서 영상의 관찰에 의한 주관적 평가기법을 이용하였다. 신호 또는 병소가 있는 영상에서 신호 또는 병소를 발견할 확률로 감도를 계산하였다. 고주파 강조 필터링과 히스토그램 평활화가 수행된 영상의 감도는 원영상보다 개선되었고, 의료영상에서 수행된 디지털 영상처리는 영상의 질을 향상시켰다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.94-104
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• 2022

Because of its convenience and compatibility with various image processing techniques, digital image representation of holograms is generally used in digital holography, and thus, quality assessment of digital holograms is an essential issue. This study proposes a new objective quality metric for digital phase hologram image processing. The proposed metric is based on a newly defined phase distortion created by taking the 2π periodicity of phase information into account. The experimental results show that the proposed metric correlates with reconstruction image quality better than the existing metric under random distortions and also works well with JPEG 2000 compression. It is expected to be broadly used in phase image processing and compression applications including phase holograms.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.391-396
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to compare and analyze the patient dose according to the distance between the X-ray tube focus and the image receptor, and to propose a new method for quantitatively evaluating the image quality. Using this quantitative evaluation method, the optimal distance for increasing x-ray image quality with low radiation dose was estimated between source and image receptor in Rib series radiography. Phantom images were obtained by changing the distance between focus and image receptor (100 cm and 180 cm). The patient radiation dose was estimated using entrance surface dose and dose area product. In order to evaluate image quality objectively, a non - reference image evaluation method was employed with paper and salt noise and Gaussian filter. As a result of this study, when the SID was changed from 100 cm to 180 cm, the entrance surface dose decreased by 4 ~ 5 times and the dose area product decreased by 3 times. In addition, there is no significant difference in image quality between of SID 180 cm and SID 100 cm. In conclusion, it was demonstrated that performing the rib series radiography at SID 180 cm is an optimal method to reduce the exposure dose and improve the image quality.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2007

본 논문은 지문 데이터베이스를 평가하는데 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 image quality를 측정하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 image quality를 측정하는 hybrid segmentation 방법을 소개하고, 다양한 지문 데이터베이스에 대해 실험한 결과를 분석한다. 개발한 방법의 객관적인 평가를 위해 NIST에서 제공하는 NFIQ 프로그램을 통해 얻은 결과와 variance와 coherence의 fusion을 이용한 hybrid segmentation 결과를 비교한다. NFIQ는 지문 영상의 품질을 정확하게 측정하지만 결과가 $1{\sim}5$로 세분화되어 있지 못한 문제점을 가지고 있다. 반면 제안하는 hybrid 방법은 NFIQ보다 더 정확하고 세분화된 평가 결과를 제공한다. 두 방법에 의해 실험한 데이터베이스들을 평가한 결과, 동일한 영상에 대해 NFIQ와 hybrid segmentation의 결과가 유사하며 지문 영상의 품질을 세분화하여 측정할 수 있는 점에서 NFIQ보다 뛰어나다고 할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.347-365
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• 2013

The performance of finger-vein recognition methods is limited by camera optical defocusing, the light-scattering effect of skin, and individual variations in the skin depth, density, and thickness of vascular patterns. Consequently, all of these factors may affect the image quality, but few studies have conducted quality assessments of finger-vein images. Therefore, we developed a new finger-vein recognition method based on image quality assessment. This research is novel compared with previous methods in four respects. First, the vertical cross-sectional profiles are extracted to detect the approximate positions of vein regions in a given finger-vein image. Second, the accurate positions of the vein regions are detected by checking the depth of the vein's profile using various depth thresholds. Third, the quality of the finger-vein image is measured by using the number of detected vein points in relation to the depth thresholds, which allows individual variations of vein density to be considered for quality assessment. Fourth, by assessing the quality of input finger-vein images, inferior-quality images are not used for recognition, thereby enhancing the accuracy of finger-vein recognition. Experiments confirmed that the performance of finger-vein recognition systems that incorporated the proposed quality assessment method was superior to that of previous methods.