• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.494-504
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• 2002

볼륨랜더링은 연속적인 2차원 영상들을 기반으로 하여 3차원 데이터로 만드는 것이다. 오브젝트의 내부영역까지도 가시화 할 수 있는 장점 때문에, 최근 MRI, PET, SPECT같은 의료 영상의 경우 볼릅랜더링을 이용해서 진단에 많이 사용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 볼륨랜더링을 쉽게 할 수 있도록 2차원 데이터를 바탕으로 볼륨데이터를 만드는 방법을 제시하고, 볼륨랜더링 기법을 이용해 의료 영상에 적용시켜 보았다. 또한 2차원 데이터를 추출하는 샘플링 단계에서 해상도를 향상시키기 위해 linear interpolation과 cubic interpolation을 통해 볼륨랜더링된 영상의 공간 해상도를 조절하도록 설계 및 구현하여 보았으며, 변형함수(transfer function)를 이용하여 각각의 결과를 비교하였다 2차원 영상의 샘플링에 사용되는 interpolation 방법을 3차원 영상에 적용하여 구현하였다. 의료영상의 볼륨랜더링 기법은 3차원 입체 데이터로 구현되는 것이므로 영상 분석을 통한 진단에 크게 기여 할 것으로 기대된다.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2004

Respiratory effects in full time welders include bronchitis, airway irritation, lung function changes, and lung fibrosis. Welder's pneumoconiosis has been generally determined to be benign and not associated with respiratory symptoms based on the absence of pulmonary function abnormalities in welders with marked radiographic abnormalities. Accordingly, to investigate pulmonary function changes during 60 days induced by welding-fume exposure, male Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to manual metal arc-stainless steel (MMA-SS) welding fumes with concentrations of 64.8$\pm$0.9 mg/$m^3$ (low dose) and 107.8 $\pm$ 2.6 mg/$m^3$ (high dose) total suspended particulates for 2 hr/day, 5 days/week in an inhalation chamber for 60 days. Pulmonary function was measured every week with whole body plethysmograph compensated (WBP Comp, SFT38116, Buxco Electronics, Sharon, CT). The rats exposed to the high dose of welding fumes exhibited statistically significant (p<0.05~0.01) body weight decrease as compared to the control whereas cell number increase of the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) (total cell, macrophage, polymorphonuclear cell and lymphocyte) during the 60 days exposure period. And only tidal volume was significantly decreased in dosedependantly during 60 days of MMA-SS welding fume exposure. This pulmonary function change with inflammatory cell recruitment confirms the lung injury caused by the MMA-SS welding fume exposure.

• 수산경영론집
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2001

The research on the price-volume relation in the market is very important because it examines into regular phenomenon revealed by market participants including producers and middlemen. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between price and trading volume in the oyster producing market. In order to accomplish the purpose of this study, the contents of empirical analysis include the time series properties of price and trading volume, the short-term and long-term relationships between price and trading volume, and the determinants of trading volume. The data used in this study correspond to daily price and trading volume covering the time period from January 1998 to April 2001. The empirical results can be summarized as follows : First, price and trading volume follow random walks and they are integrated of order 1. The first difference is necessary for satisfying the stationary conditions. Second, price and trading volume are cointegrated. This long-run relationship is stronger from trading volume to price. Third, error correction model suggests that feedback effect exists in the long-run and that price tends to lead trading volume by about five days in the short run, that is, to be required period by digging, conveying, and peeling oystershell for selling oyster. Fourth, price and price volatility is a determinant of trading volume. In particular, trading volume is a negative function of price. It is believed that the conclusion drawn from this study would provide a useful standard for the policy makers in charge of reducing the oyster price volatility risk caused by trading volume(selling quantities).

• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2015

Measured bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data have been used to represent complex interaction between lights and surface materials for photorealistic rendering. However, their massive size makes it hard to adopt them in practical rendering applications. In this paper, we propose an adaptive method for B-spline volume representation of measured BRDF data. It basically performs approximate B-spline volume lofting, which decomposes the problem into three sub-problems of multiple B-spline curve fitting along u-, v-, and w-parametric directions. Especially, it makes the efficient use of knots in the multiple B-spline curve fitting and thereby accomplishes adaptive knot placement along each parametric direction of a resulting B-spline volume. The proposed method is quite useful to realize efficient data reduction while smoothing out the noises and keeping the overall features of BRDF data well. By applying the B-spline volume models of real materials for rendering, we show that the B-spline volume models are effective in preserving the features of material appearance and are suitable for representing BRDF data.

• 융합신호처리학회 학술대회논문집
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• 한국신호처리시스템학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.169-172
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• 2000

직접 volume rendering 방식에서 좋은 해상도의 이미지를 얻기 위해서 계산되는 많은 trilinear interpolation은 고성능 그래픽 워크스테이션이나 특별한 목적의 하드웨어 사양을 요구하며 제한적으로 구현이 되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 PC 그래픽 하드웨어 상에서 2D-Texture를 이용하여 volume rendering을 MRI head set 영상을 적용하여 구현해 보았다. 또한 최근에 지원되는 PC 그래픽 보드의 multi-texturing성능을 이용하여 volume rendering 할 수 있는 방법을 보여준다. 이러한 OuenGL 확장 기능을 이용하여 픽셀 연산과 rendering 성능을 PC 기반에서 항상 시켜 보았다.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2021

직접 볼륨 렌더링은 볼륨 표면의 연산 없이 2차원 공간에 투영하여 렌더링 한다. 직접 볼륨 렌더링에서 전이함수(TF)는 볼륨에 색상과 투명도와 같은 광원 특성을 할당하는데 활용된다. 하지만 초보자가 TF를 조작하여 볼륨데이터를 파악하고 색상을 할당하기까지 오랜 시간이 필요합니다. 본 논문에서는 직관적인 볼륨 렌더링을 위해 인터넷에서 수집한 이미지를 사용하여 TF에 볼륨의 색상을 매핑하는 접근 방식을 제안한다. 또한 우리는 K-means 클러스터링을 활용한 색상 추출 방법을 토의한다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2009

Objectives : Whilst hypertension exerts a negative effect on several organs there have been few studies regarding its effect on pulmonary function. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between hypertension and pulmonary function in rural Korean adults Methods : In 2006, 2534 people were recruited, aged 40 to 70, in Kangwha County. We selected 1454(male: 624, female: 830) participants whose pulmonary function results were repeatable. Blood pressure(BP) was measured twice and the average calculated. Participants were divided into two groups(hypertensive group and non-hypertensive group) in accordance with The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. Pulmonary function was measured by dry rolling seal spirometry. Forced expiratory volume in the one second and forced vital capacity were converted into percent-predicted values based on average pulmonary function amongst Koreans. Results : The number of hypertensive participants in the present study was 460(male: 205, female: 255) and the number of non-hypertensive participants was 994(male: 419, female: 575). Our findings have shown that the mean values for expiratory volume in the one second and forced vital capacity were significantly lower for hypertensive people than for non-hypertensive people, among women(P=0.002 for forced expiratory volume in the one second, p<0.001 for forced vital capacity volume). Odds ratio analysis revealed that hypertensive participants were more likely to have lower pulmonary function than non-hypertensive participants, again significantly among women. Conclusions : The pulmonary function of hypertensive women was significantly lower than that of non-hypertensive women aged 40-70.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.255-273
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• 2014

본 연구는 인천내항, 인천북항, 평택항 간 물동량의 영향관계 분석을 위해 그랜저 인과관계 검정, 벡터자기회귀모형을 사용하였다. 그랜저 인과관계 검정결과 인천내항 물동량은 평택항 물동량의 원인변수임을, 평택항 물동량은 인천북항 물동량의 원인변수임을 확인하였다. 한편, 벡터자기회귀모형을 적용함으로써 얻은 충격반응함수를 통해 인천내항 물동량은 인천북항 물동량, 평택항 물동량과는 음의 관계가 존재함을 알 수 있었고, 인천북항 물동량과 평택항 물동량 간에는 양의 관계가 존재함을 알게 되었다. 또한, 벡터자기회귀모형을 적용함으로써 얻게 된 예측오차 분산분해를 통해 인천내항 물동량의 예측오차는 시간의 경과에 따라 인천북항 물동량의 변동에 의해 설명되는 비중이 커짐을, 평택항 물동량의 예측오차는 시간의 경과에 따라 인천내항 물동량의 변동에 의해 설명되는 비중이 커짐을 알게 되었다. 연구결과 평택항 물동량의 변동이 인천항 전체에 부정적인 영향을 미치는 것은 아니며, 부속 항만에 따라 영향을 달리 받을 수 있음을 알게 되었다. 이는 인천항, 평택항을 운영하는 항만운영 당국간 경쟁과 협력이 모두 가능하다는 것을 보여주며, 상호 협력할 부분과 경쟁할 부분을 명확히 한다면 양항이 함께 발전할 수 있을 것임을 의미한다.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.733-738
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• 2005

Theoretically one might suggest the abdominoplasty can cause respiratory decompensation resulting from musculofascial plication, which reduces the respiratory reserve by decreasing intra-abdominal volume and diaphragmatic excursion. This prospective study was perfomed to evaluate the effect of abdominoplasty and the change of intraoperative Paw on the pulmonary function of 20 consecutive otherwise healthy subjects. The pulmonary function test was performed preoperatively, and repeated 2 months after the operation. Additionally, we monitored intraoperative Paw. Comparison of the pulmonary function test showed a significant decrease(p<0.001) in the mean forced vital capacity(FVC) and the mean forced expiratory volume in one second($FEV_1$) throughout the study period. Postoperatively, the mean FVC decreased by 11.65% and the mean $FEV_1$ decreased by 16.15%. The mean Paw increased by $6.6cmH_2O$($3-12cmH_2O$) by musculofascial plication. And we found that the decrease in FVC and $FEV_1$ was significantly correlated with intraoperative changing of Paw in abdominoplasty(p<0.001). FVC and $FEV_1$ could be decreased by abdominoplasty due to decreasing intra-abdominal volume and diaphragmatic excursion, but there was no respiratory symptom clinically in all patients 2 months after the operation. In conclusion, We found that the decrease in FVC and FEV1 after 2 months of abdominoplasty was significantly correlated with intraoperative Paw change during operation. The intraoperative Paw was increased to $12cmH_2O$ without any respiratory symptom in this study. We suggested that the increase in intraoperative Paw less than about $10cmH_2O$ can not affect on respiratory function clinically.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.564-573
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• 2023

Objective: To investigate the feasibility of assessing the viscoelastic properties of the brain using magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) and a novel MRE transducer to determine the relationship between the viscoelastic properties and glymphatic function in neurologically normal individuals. Materials and Methods: This prospective study included 47 neurologically normal individuals aged 23-74 years (male-to-female ratio, 21:26). The MRE was acquired using a gravitational transducer based on a rotational eccentric mass as the driving system. The magnitude of the complex shear modulus |G^*| and the phase angle 𝛗 were measured in the centrum semiovale area. To evaluate glymphatic function, the Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis Along the Perivascular Space (DTI-ALPS) method was utilized and the ALPS index was calculated. Univariable and multivariable (variables with P < 0.2 from the univariable analysis) linear regression analyses were performed for |G^*| and 𝛗 and included sex, age, normalized white matter hyperintensity (WMH) volume, brain parenchymal volume, and ALPS index as covariates. Results: In the univariable analysis for |G^*|, age (P = 0.005), brain parenchymal volume (P = 0.152), normalized WMH volume (P = 0.011), and ALPS index (P = 0.005) were identified as candidates with P < 0.2. In the multivariable analysis, only the ALPS index was independently associated with |G^*|, showing a positive relationship (β = 0.300, P = 0.029). For 𝛗, normalized WMH volume (P = 0.128) and ALPS index (P = 0.015) were identified as candidates for multivariable analysis, and only the ALPS index was independently associated with 𝛗 (β = 0.057, P = 0.039). Conclusion: Brain MRE using a gravitational transducer is feasible in neurologically normal individuals over a wide age range. The significant correlation between the viscoelastic properties of the brain and glymphatic function suggests that a more organized or preserved microenvironment of the brain parenchyma is associated with a more unimpeded glymphatic fluid flow.