• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제29권11호
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• pp.803-808
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• 2002

본 논문은 복부 컴퓨터단층촬영(CT) 영상에서의 자동화된 신장 및 신장암 추출에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 필름으로 보관된 복부 CT 영상을 디지털화하여 영상분석을 수행하였으며, 명암값에 의한 임계값(Gray-Level Thresholding) 처리 기법을 사용하여 신장만을 분리하였다. 신장암의 샘플영상에 대한 텍스쳐(Texture)분석 결과를 토대로, 대표적인 통계적 모멘트 값인 평균 및 표준 편차값을 동질성 시험 기준으로 삼아 신장암의 SEED를 선택하였다. 선택된 SEED의 중앙 픽셀을 시작점으로 하여, 명암값을 동질성 시험기준으로 사용한 영역확장(Region Growing) 방법을 적용하여 신장암을 추출하였다. GE사의 Hispeed Advantage CT 스캐너를 사용하여 촬영된 9개의 예, 총 113매 영상을 Lumisys LS-40 필름 디지타이저로 디지털화 하여 적용한 결과, 85%의 신장암 추출 민감도를 가진다.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제17B권4호
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• pp.275-286
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• 2010

디지털 콘텐츠의 원본 품질을 유지할 수 있고 지적 재산권을 보호할 수 있는 가역 워터마킹 기술에 대한 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히 원본 품질을 중요시하는 의료, 군사, 예술작품 분야에서 가역 워터마킹의 필요성이 증대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 추정 오차 확장 및 오류 예측 보정을 통한 고용량 가역 워터마킹 기술을 제안한다. 보간 기법을 사용하여 픽셀의 값을 추정하고, 추정값과 원본값의 차이에 대한 히스토그램을 계산한 후에 이를 확장하여 워터마크 메시지를 삽입한다. 기존의 인접 픽셀 사이의 차이값이 아닌 추정치를 활용함으로써 메시지가 삽입되는 히스토그램 값의 집중도를 높여서 높은 삽입 용량을 달성하였다. 삽입된 워터마크는 추정값과 원본값의 차이에 대한 히스토그램을 복원하여 검출한다. 삽입 후에 발생할 수 있는 오버플로우 및 언더플로우 문제는 오류 예측 기법을 통하여 해결하였다. 제안하는 가역 워터마킹 알고리즘의 성능을 검증하기 위하여 다양한 영상을 활용하여 기존 알고리즘과 비교 분석을 수행하였다. 그 결과에 따르면 제안한 알고리즘은 완전한 가역성을 갖으며, 삽입 후에도 높은 영상 품질을 유지하고, 높은 삽입 용량을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.334-343
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• 1996

Quality evaluation for food and agricultural products have always been one of the most elusive problems associated with the handling , processing and marketing in a food plant production. In order to detect physical foreign materials in food and agricultural products, non-destructive techniques have been developed for many years. Application of X-ray system to detect physical foreign materials in food and agricultural products could be considered to be a high potential method. Especially , it is impossible to detect internal physical foreign materials by visual inspections. In this study, it was tried to be applied for two different X-ray devices. Soft X-ray system with CdTe sensor and X-ray CT scanner were evaluated for advantage of the detection of non-meltallic foreign materials in food and agricultural products . Though the soft X-ray is not a high energy radiation, it is possible to detect small different density in a material. The CdTe sensor has a high resolution for t e soft X-ray energy region. The density characteristics of foods and foreign material were expressed region. The density characteristics of foods and foreign materials were expressed as a soft X-ray energy spectrum. The energy spectrum was analyzed by a personal computer with a multi-channel analyzer. X-ray CT scanner can provide visual image and analyze by three dimensional information inside food and agricultural products. The X-ray CT scanner using as a medical equipment was used to detect a foreign material. The density characteristics of food and foreign materials in food were tried to be detected by the threshold value on the basis of the CT numbers. The soft X-ray absorption characteristics for acrylin plates and distilled water were obtained and could be found the possibility of detecting a small physical foreign materials such as a plastic wrapping film , a stone and grasshopper in food and agricultural products.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.128-141
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• 2015

Independent Component Analysis (ICA), one of the blind source separation methods, can be applied for extracting unknown source signals only from received signals. This is accomplished by finding statistical independence of signal mixtures and has been successfully applied to myriad fields such as medical science, image processing, and numerous others. Nevertheless, there are inherent problems that have been reported when using this technique: instability and invalid ordering of separated signals, particularly when using a conventional ICA technique in vibratory source signal identification of complex structures. In this study, a simple iterative algorithm of the conventional ICA has been proposed to mitigate these problems. The proposed method to extract more stable source signals having valid order includes an iterative and reordering process of extracted mixing matrix to reconstruct finally converged source signals, referring to the magnitudes of correlation coefficients between the intermediately separated signals and the signals measured on or nearby sources. In order to review the problems of the conventional ICA technique and to validate the proposed method, numerical analyses have been carried out for a virtual response model and a 30 m class submarine model. Moreover, in order to investigate applicability of the proposed method to real problem of complex structure, an experiment has been carried out for a scaled submarine mockup. The results show that the proposed method could resolve the inherent problems of a conventional ICA technique.

• The Journal of Advanced Prosthodontics
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2010

PURPOSE. This study compared the accuracy of an abutment-framework (A-F) taken with open tray impression technique combining cement-on crown abutments, a metal framework and resin cement to closed tray and resin-splinted open tray impression techniques for the 3-implant definitive casts. The effect of angulation on the accuracy of these 3 techniques was also evaluated. MATERIAL AND METHODS. Three definitive casts, each with 3 linearly positioned implant analogs at relative angulations 0, 30, and 40 degrees, were fabricated with passively fitted corresponding reference frameworks. Ten impressions were made and poured, using each of the 3 techniques on each of the 3 definitive casts. To record the vertical gap between reference frameworks and analogs in duplicate casts, a light microscope with image processing was used. Data were analyzed by two-way analysis of variance and the Tukey test. RESULTS. The open tray techniques showed significantly smaller vertical gaps compare to closed tray technique (P < .05). The closed tray and the resin-splinted open tray technique showed significantly different vertical gaps according to the angulation of implant (P < .05), but the A-F impression technique did not (P > .05). CONCLUSION. The accuracy of the A-F impression technique was superior to that of conventional techniques, and was not affected by the angulation of the implants.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.41-47
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• 2012

모든 물체는 절대온도 0도 이상에서 복사에너지를 방출한다. 비냉각 열상시스템은 입사된 복사에너지를 검출하여 신호처리를 통해 영상으로 출력하는 장비이다. 최근에는 비냉각 열상장비를 활용하여 의료, 산업, 및 군수 등의 다양한 분야에 응용 되고 있으며, 다양한 응용분야에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 비냉각 열상시스템 검출기 내부에 열전소자가 없는 검출기를 보다 효과적으로 제어하여 영상의 화질을 향상시키고 이를 기반으로 온도 측정 정밀도를 극대화 할 수있는 효율적인 제어기법에 대해 설명한다. 제안하는 기법은 비냉각 열상시스템에 TEC-less 및 온도 검출 알고리듬을 적용하는 것이다. 실제 챔버를 활용하여 시험을 수행한 결과 알고리듬 적용 전 시스템보다 우수한 화질의 영상을 획득하고 온도 측정 정밀도가 $1^{\circ}C$이하로 향상됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2019

안와 내에서 안구의 상대적 위치는 여러 병적인 상태를 짐작할 수 있는 하나의 기준이 될 수 있다. 특히 안와골절, 갑상선 안질환, 안와 종양 등의 진단과 이에 약물 및 수술적 치료의 결과를 판단하는데 유용하다. 현재 안구 돌출 값을 측정하기 위해 주로 사용되는 대표적 측정 기기인 Hertel과 Naugle 안구돌출계 등은 검사자가 다를 경우, 같은 검사자가 반복적으로 측정하더라도 검사할 때마다 안와의 고정부위가 달라지는 현상, 또한 동일한 안구돌출계라고 하더라도 제조 회사가 다르다면 안와의 고정부위 디자인이 달라 검사자에 의한 측정 오차 발생이 필연적이다. 본 논문에서는 백색광 간섭계를 이용한 안구 돌출 측정 장치를 설계 및 제작하고 실제 사람의 안구 돌출을 측정하여 수동식 측정 방법에 비해 정밀도 및 반복 정도가 크게 높아진 것을 확인하였다.

• PNF and Movement
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.329-337
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• 2019

Purpose: Ultrasound imaging is commonly used to measure the pennation angle of human skeletal muscles in vivo. However, manual assessment of the pennation angle using ultrasound images is subjective and time-consuming and requires a high level of examiner skill. The architectural analysis of human skeletal muscles is thus challenging. Automated approaches using image processing techniques are therefore required to estimate the pennation angle in ultrasound images. The purpose of this study was thus to assess the intra-tester and inter-tester reliability and validity of the pennation angle using an automatic measurement program. Methods: Twenty-two healthy young adults (mean age = 22.55 years) with no medical history of neurological or musculoskeletal disorders voluntarily participated in this study. Ultrasound imaging was used to measure the pennation angle of the gastrocnemius muscle at rest. One examiner acquired images from all the participants. The intra-tester and inter-tester reliability were evaluated using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) to estimate reliability. Validity was measured using Pearson's correlation coefficient. Results: The intra-rater reliability was excellent for the automatic pennation angle measuring program and the manual pennation angle assessment method (ICC>0.95). The inter-rater reliability was also excellent for both methods (ICC>0.93). All the correlation coefficients for the automatic pennation angle measuring program and the manual pennation angle assessment method were 0.79, which indicated a significantly positive correlation (p<0.05). Conclusion: Pennation angle measurement using the automatic pennation angle measuring program showed acceptable reliability and validity. This study therefore demonstrated that the automatic measuring program was able to automatically measure the pennation angle of skeletal muscles using ultrasound images, and thus made it easy to investigate skeletal muscle architecture.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.361-368
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to develop a hand rehabilitation training system for hemiplegic patients. We also tried to find out five hand postures (WF: Wrist Flexion, WE: Wrist Extension, BG: Ball Grip, HG: Hook Grip, RE: Rest) in real-time using multi-channel EMG-based deep learning. We performed a pre-processing method that converts to Spider Chart image data for the classification of hand movement from five test subjects (total 1,500 data sets) using Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) deep learning with an 8-channel armband. As a result of this study, the recognition accuracy was 92% for WF, 94% for WE, 76% for BG, 82% for HG, and 88% for RE. Also, ten physical therapists participated for the usability evaluation. The questionnaire consisted of 7 items of acceptance, interest, and satisfaction, and the mean and standard deviation were calculated by dividing each into a 5-point scale. As a result, high scores were obtained in immersion and interest in game (4.6±0.43), convenience of the device (4.9±0.30), and satisfaction after treatment (4.1±0.48). On the other hand, Conformity of intention for treatment (3.90±0.49) was relatively low. This is thought to be because the game play may be difficult depending on the degree of spasticity of the hemiplegic patient, and compensation may occur in patient with weakened target muscles. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a rehabilitation program suitable for the degree of disability of the patient.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.553-560
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical risk according to the applicator heterogeneity, mislocation, and tissue heterogeneity correction through a dose verification program during brachytherapy of cervical cancer. We performed image processing with MATLAB on images acquired with CT simulator. The source was modeled and stochiometric calibration and Monte-Carlo algorithm were applied based on dwell time and location to calculate the dose, and the secondary cancer risk was evaluated in the dose verification program. The result calculated by correcting for applicator and tissue heterogeneity showed a maximum dose of about 25% higher. In the bladder, the difference in excess absolute risk according to the heterogeneity correction was not significant. In the rectum, the difference in excess absolute risk was lower than that calculated by correcting applicator and tissue heterogeneity compared to the water-based calculation. In the femur, the water-based calculation result was the lowest, and the result calculated by correcting the applicator and tissue heterogeneity was 10% higher. A maximum of 14% dose difference occurred when the applicator mislocation was 20 mm in the Z-axis. In a future study, it is expected that a system that can independently verify the treatment plan can be developed by automating the interface between the treatment planning system and the dose verification program.