• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.211-216
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 조영증강 초음파 진단시스템에서 유용성과 성능을 개선하기 위한 영상처리 기법을 제안한다. 의료초음파 영상에서 진단 파라미터 데이터를 가시화 하는 방법론으로서 연속적인 픽셀 값을 갖는 전이시간 데이터의 표현과, 4가지 유형의 값으로 분류되는 병변 진단 파라미터 영상을 생성하는 방법을 제시한다. 또한 생성된 파라미터 영상에서 노이즈를 제거하기 위한 방법론으로서 MRF 모델을 이용한 영상개선 기법을 제안한다. 이러한 파라미터 영상 생성기법은 초음파 진단 데이터에서 조영증강 패턴의 동적인 변화에 대한 육안 판별의 한계를 극복할 수 있게 한다. 제안된 방법은 원영상에서 영역의 윤곽선을 명확하게 하며 4가지 색상을 통하여 병변의 특성에 관한 시각적 판단을 용이하게 한다. MRF기반 영상개선 과정에서 연속적인 픽셀 값에 대한 에너지함수를 정의하고 이를 최적화 하는 기법을 개발하였으며 실제 의료영상을 사용한 실험을 통하여 제안된 이론의 유용성을 평가하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.215-222
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• 1991

In this paper, we present a result of our study on how to construct a pilot MPACS (medical hic lure archiving and communication System) based on X -Window system. The proposed MPACS Is composed of image acquisition units, image archiving and processing units, display units, and all units are Interfaced with a LAN The image management is done according to the TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) , and the dis- play system is built upon generally accepted software packages, namely the X -Window system. Also, lossless and lossy digital image compression methods were implemented and tested with X -ray and CT images.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 의료영상 저장 및 전송 시스템에 필수적인 무손실 의료영상 압축 기법을 제안하였다. 의료영상은 방사선 영상 중에서 유방영상(mammography)과 자기공명영상을 사용하였으며, 이들 영상을 무손실로 압축하기 위하여 영역성장에 의한 영상분할 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리듬은 원 영상이 에러 영상과 불연속 계수 영상, 그리고 상위 비트 데이터 등 세 가지의 부 영역으로 분할되도록 하였다. 그리고 영역성장 과정 후 생성된 불연속 계수 영상 데이터와 에러 영상을 국제 이진영상압축 표준이며 그레이코드(graycode)화된 영상의 압축에 적합한 JBIG(Joint Bi-level Image expert Group) 알고리듬을 이용하여 압축시켰다. 제안한 알고리듬과 타 연구에서 사용된 기법들을 비교 검토 한 결과 제안한 무손실 압축 기법을 적용하여 얻어지는 압축율은 JBIG, JPEG, LZ 기법에 비해 평균적으로 각각 3.7%, 7.9%, 23.6% 정도 개선됨을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.418-431
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• 2024

The usage of virtual reality (VR) in healthcare field has been gaining attention lately. The main use cases revolve around medical imaging and clinical skill training. Healthcare professionals have found great benefits in these cases when done in VR. While medical imaging on the desktop has lots of available software with various tools, VR versions are mostly stripped-down with only basic tools. One of the many tool groups significantly missing is annotation. In this paper, we survey the current situation of medical imaging software both on the desktop and in the VR environment. We will discuss general information on medical imaging and provide examples of both desktop and VR applications. We will also discuss the current status of annotation in VR, the problems that need to be overcome and possible solutions for them. The findings of this paper should help developers of future medical image annotation tools in choosing which problem they want to tackle and possible methods. The findings will be used to help in our future work of developing annotation tools.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.192-198
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• 2008

Purpose: The scan time reduction helps to yield more accurate results and induce the minimization of patient's motion. Also we can expect that satisfaction of examination will increase. Nowdays medical equipment companies have developed various programs to reduce scan time. We used Onco. Flash (Pixon method, SIEMENS) that is an image processing technique gated cardiac blood pool scan and going to evaluate its clinical usefullness. Materials and Method: We analyzed the 50 patients who were examined by gated blood pool scan in nuclear medicine department of Asan Mediacal Center from June $20^{th}$ 2008 to August $14^{th}$ 2008. We acquired the Full-time (6000 Kcounts) and Half-time (3000 Kcounts) LAO image in same position. And we acquired LVEF values ten times from Full-time, Half-time images acquired by the image processing technique and analyzed its mean and standard deviation values. To estimate LVEF in same conditions, we set automatic location of the LV ROI and background ROI based on same X and Y-axis. Also we performed blinding tests to physician. Results: After making a quantitative analysis of the 50 patients EF values, each mean${\pm}$standard deviation is shown at Full-time image $68.12{\pm}7.84%$, Half- time (acquired by imaging processing technique) $68.49{\pm}8.73%$. In the 95% confidence limit, there was no statistically significant difference (p>0.05). After blinding test with a physician for making a qualitative analysis, there was no difference between Full-time image and Half-time image acquired by the image processing technique for observing LV myocardial wall motion. Conclusion: Gated cardiac blood pool scan has been reported its relatively exact EF measured results than ultrasound or CT. But gated cardiac blood pool scan takes relatively longer time than other exams and now it needs to improve time competitive power. If we adapt Half-time technique to gated cardiac blood pool scintigraphy based on this study, we expect to reduce possible artifacts and improve accessibility as well as flexibility to exam. Also we expect patient's satisfaction.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.569-576
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• 2012

This paper presents an x-ray medical image panorama system which can overcome the smallness of the images that exist on a source computer during remote medical processing. In the system, after the standard medical image format DICOM is converted to the PC standard image format, a MSR algorithm is used to enhance X-ray images of low quality. Then SURF and Multi-band blending are applied to generate a panoramic image. Also, this paper evaluates the proposed SURF based system through the average gray value error and image quality criterion with X-ray image data by comparing with a SIFT based system. The results show that the proposed system is superior to SIFT based system in image quality.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.281-284
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• 2007

A realization for image distortion correction processing system with DSP processor is presented in this paper. The image distortion correcting algorithm is realized by DSP processor for focusing on more real time processing than image quality. The lens and camera distortion coefficients are processed by YCbCr Lookup Tables and the correcting algorithm is applied to reverse mapping method for geometrical transform. The system experimentation results in the processing time about 34.6 msec on $720{\times}480$ curved image at 150 degree visual range.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.634-640
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 방사선 영상을 기반으로 관심 영역의 자동 추출 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘은 입력 영상에서 병변부위를 검출하기 위해 세그먼테이션, 특징 추출 및 참조 이미지 매칭을 이용한다. 추출된 영역은 참조 DB에서 일치하는 병변 이미지를 검색하고, 일치된 결과는 칼만 필터 기반의 적합성 피드백을 이용해 병변을 자동 추출한다. 제안 알고리즘은 왼손 x-ray 입력 영상을 기반으로 성장판을 추출하기 위해 왼손 이미지의 윤곽선을 추출하고, 이것은 다중 스케일 해시안 행렬 기반의 세션화를 이용해 후보 영역을 생성 한다. 그 결과, 제안 알고리즘은 관심영역 분할 단계에서는 0.02초로 빠른 분할이 가능하였고, 분할 영상을 기준으로 ROI 추출시 평균 0.53, 강화 단계에서는 0.49초로 매우 정확한 이미지 분할이 가능한 것을 실험을 통해 알 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.93-100
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• 2024

In this paper, we propose a novel robust blind crypto-watermarking method for medical images security based on hiding of DICOM patient information (patient name, age...) in the medical imaging. The DICOM patient information is encrypted using the AES standard algorithm before its insertion in the medical image. The cover image is divided in blocks of 8x8, in each we insert 1-bit of the encrypted watermark in the hybrid transform domain by applying respectively the 2D-LWT (Lifting wavelet transforms), the 2D-DCT (discrete cosine transforms), and the SVD (singular value decomposition). The scheme is tested by applying various attacks such as noise, filtering and compression. Experimental results show that no visible difference between the watermarked images and the original images and the test against attack shows the good robustness of the proposed algorithm.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.12-15
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new method of background removing for digital self-adaptive acquisition in medical X-ray imaging. We analysis the construction of video digital acquisition system and main factors of acquired image quality, propose a more efficiency method to against background non-uniformly. With proposed method, non-uniform illumination back ground was well removed without image quality degradation.