• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.186-188
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 초음파 영상에서 DBSCAN(Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise)과 FCM 클러스터링 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하여 결절종을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 초음파 영상 촬영 시 좌우 상단의 지방층 영역과 하단 영역의 명암도가 어두운 영역을 잡음 영역으로 설정한다. 그리고 초음파 영상에 퍼지스트레칭 기법을 적용하여 잡음 영역을 최대한 제거 한 후에 ROI 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에서 밀도 분포를 분석하기 위하여 히스토그램을 분석한 후에 DBSCAN을 적용하여 초음파 영상에서 결절종 후보에 해당되는 명암도를 추출한다. 추출한 후보 명암도를 대상으로 FCM 클러스터링 기법을 적용한다. FCM을 적용하는 단계에서 결절종의 저에코 혹은 무에코의 특징을 이용하여 클러스터 중심 값이 가장 낮은 클러스터를 양자화 한 후에 라벨링 기법을 적용시켜 결절종의 후보 객체를 추출한다. 제안된 결절종 추출 방법의 성능을 분석하기 위해 전문의가 결절종 영역을 표기한 초음파 영상과 표기되지 않은 초음파 영상 120쌍을 대상으로 DBSCAN, FCM, 그리고 제안된 방법 간의 성능을 비교 분석하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 120개의 초음파 영상에서 106개 결절종 영역이 추출되었고 FCM 기법에서는 80개가 추출되었고 DBSCAN에서는 36개가 추출되었다. 따라서 제안된 방법이 결절종 추출에 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.1044-1050
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• 2010

Endoscopic ultrasonography is a medical procedure in endoscopy combined with ultrasound to obtain images of the internal organs. It is useful to have a predictive pathological manifestation since a doctor can observe tumors under mucosa. However, it is often subjective to judge the degree of malignant degeneration of tumors. Thus, in this paper, we propose a feature analysis procedure to make the pathological manifestation more objective so as to improve the accuracy and recall of the diagnosis. In the process, we extract the ultrasound region from the image obtained by endoscopic ultrasonography. It is necessary to standardize the intensity of this region with the intensity of water region as a base since frequently found small intensity difference is only to be inefficient in the analysis. Then, we analyze the spot region with high echo and calcium deposited region by applying LVQ algorithm and bit plane partitioning procedure to tumor regions selected by medical expert. For detailed analysis, features such as intensity value, intensity information included within two random points chosen by medical expert in tumor region, and the slant of outline of tumor region in order to decide the degree of malignant degeneration. Such procedure is proven to be helpful for medical experts in tumor analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.390-397
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• 2009

Endoscopic ultrasonography is a medical procedure in endoscopy combined with ultrasound to obtain images of the internal organs. It is useful to have a predictive pathological manifestation since a doctor can observe tumors under mucosa. However, it is often subjective to judge the degree of malignant degeneration of tumors. Thus, in this paper, we propose a feature analysis procedure to make the pathological manifestation more objective so as to improve the accuracy and recall of the diagnosis. In the process, we extract the ultrasound region from the image obtained by endoscopic ultrasonography. It is necessary to standardize the intensity of this region with the intensity of water region as a base since frequently found small intensity difference is only to be inefficient in the analysis. Then, we analyze the spot region with high echo and calcium deposited region by applying LVQ algorithm and bit plane partitioning procedure to tumor regions selected by medical expert. For detailed analysis, features such as intensity value, intensity information included within two random points chosen by medical expert in tumor region, and the slant of outline of tumor region in order to decide the degree of malignant degeneration. Such procedure is proven to be helpful for medical experts in tumor analysis.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.15
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• pp.73-88
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• 2009

Light is a basic force that functions in all the formative arts. Light (brightness) is an important subject of study in that it contains the force to control emotion and has much influence upon the shaping of a visual image and a feeling. If an artist systematizes the characteristics of brightness and creates an image, he or she can acquire a useful tool of expression. Because light is a powerful medium of expression of a visual image, a study on the characteristics of brightness for the emotional expression of an image in the contextual relationship with narratives seemingly has a crucial meaning. Emotion is influenced by a visual image very much, and a visual image is inevitably influenced by light. The brightness by light is basically classified into bright, dim, and dark. And the three basic stages of brightness specialize an image according to the setting of scope of maximal and minimal luminosity, and the image is further differentiated by the size of bright portion or dark portion. Since emotion is such a phenomenon as immaterial and psychological, it is difficult to break down it. Furthermore, clarifying the principle of an image in which the shade of light is associated is impossible. However, the width of luminosity and the change of size can give quite a change to a visual image, and the visual image has further influence upon man's emotion too. Although the influence of brightness upon a visual image varies with extents, circumstances, and personal tastes and interests, even the same image clearly changes with the adjustment of brightness.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.608-617
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• 2017

Methods of contrast enhancement have problem such as side effect of over-enhancement with non-gaussian histogram distribution, tradeoff enhancement efficiency against brightness preserving. In order to enhance contrast at various histogram distribution, segmentation to region with gaussian distribution and then enhance contrast each region. First, we segment an image into several regions using GMM(Gaussian Mixture Model)fitting by that k-mean clustering and EM(Expectation-Maximization) in $L^*a^*b^*$ color space. As a result region segmentation, we get the region map and probability map. Then we apply local contrast enhancement algorithm that mean shift to minimum overlapping of each region and preserve brightness histogram equalization. Experiment result show that proposed region based contrast enhancement method compare to the conventional method as AMBE(AbsoluteMean Brightness Error) and AE(Average Entropy), brightness is maintained and represented detail information.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.504-511
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• 2014

This paper presents a hybrid recognition method, which is based on the nonlinear histogram equalization and the multidimensional intensity variation of an images. The nonlinear histogram equalization based on a adaptively modified function is applied to improve the quality by adjusting the brightness of the image. The multidimensional intensity variation by considering the a extent of 4-step changes in brightness between the adjacent pixels is also applied to reflect accurately the attributes of image. The statistical correlation that is measured by the normalized cross-correlation(NCC) coefficient, is applied to comprehensively measure the similarity between the images. The NCC is considered by the intensity variation of each 2-direction(x-axis and y-axis) image. The proposed method has been applied to the problem for recognizing the 50-face images of 40*40 pixels. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a superior recognition performances to the method without performing the histogram equalization, or the linear histogram equalization, respectively.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.1_2
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• pp.20-32
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• 2001

각 장기는 고유한 명암값의 범위와 각 명암값에 대한 서로 다른 비율을 지니고 있으므로 제안된 연구에서는 이러한 명암값의 비율을 이용하여 장기의 영역과 노이즈를 구분할 수 있도록 하였다. 장기의 영역을 세 종류의 메쉬영상으로 표현하여 이들의 유니온 영상으로 장기의 전반적인 형태인 템플리트를 생성하였다. 템플리트 방식은 기존의 방식에서 명암값의 범위가 같은 노이즈의 제거가 어려운 단점을 해결하여 장기의 영역만을 분리할 수 있었다. 장기의 위치를 탐색하기 위한 위치탐색과정에서는 장기의 존재여부의 파악과 함께 분리된 장기까지 추적할 수 있도록 하였다. 외곽선 표현을 위해서는 템플리트로 이진영상에서 서브트랙션(subtraction)하는 방법을 사용하여 장기의 말단부위까지 세밀하게 표현하였다. 제안된 연구에서 사용된 오프닝과 클로징 방법으로 기존의 structuring element를 사용하는 방법에 비해 처리속도를 단축시킬 수 있었다. 추출된 장기의 면적을 토대로 체적계산을 시행하였고 동물실험을 통하여 임상 실험치를 제시하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.11
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• pp.928-937
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• 2013

This paper presents a novel contrast enhancement method based on singular value decomposition and image pyramid. The proposed method consists mainly of four steps. The proposed algorithm firstly decomposes image into band-pass images, including basis image and detail images, to improve both the global contrast and the local detail. In the global contrast process, singular value decomposition is used for contrast enhancement; the local detail scheme uses weighting factors. In the final image composition process, the proposed algorithm combines color and luminance components in order to preserve the color consistency. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm improves contrast performance and enhances detail compared to conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.489-492
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a system for robust face detection based on wavelet transform using the standard models of image distortion. In the previous works, it was known to be difficult to treat a distorting of image information such as noises and light of the images obtained by a still camera and a movie camera. we analyze the high frequence information by using wavelet transform. This information is used for testing the image distortion and constructing the standard models of image distortion. The experimental results show that our extracting method based on standard models of image distortion is very effective.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.520-529
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• 2007

간암은 세계적으로 흔한 악성 종양에 속하지만 우리나라에서 간암은 위암, 폐암 다음으로 높은 사망률을 보이며 이러한 간암은 조기진단이 요구된다. 전문의는 간암의 진단을 위해 조영증강 CT영상을 이용하여 육안으로 간암을 판별하는데, 조영증강 CT영상을 이용한 진단은 주 종양의 진단에는 도움이 되지만 주 종양에서 주위 간 조직으로 전이된 간암들을 판별하는 것은 어려우며 실제로 시술 중에야 전이된 간암의 존재를 알 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 조영증강 CT영상을 이용하여 간과 주 종양을 자동으로 추출한 후, 미세하게 주 종양 주위로 전위된 간암들을 추출하는 방법을 제안하여 전문의를 보조할 수 있는 보조 전문가 시스템으로서의 유용성을 확인하고자한다. 조영증강 CT영상은 흉부에서 5mm간격으로 40 ${\sim}$ 50장정도로 촬영된다. 조영증강 CT영상을 이용하여 간 영역을 추출하기 위해서 간의 형태학적 정보 그리고 명암도와 명암의 분포도를 이용한 양자화 기법 등을 적용하여 추출하며 추출된 간 영역에서 간암의 후보 영역 추출은 간암의 명암도와 형태학적 특징 정보를 이용하여 추출한다. 본 논문에서는 간암의 추출을 위해 맵 상에 흩어져 분포되어 있는 유사 패턴들의 무게 중심을 찾아 하나의 패턴으로 그룹화 하는 개선된 SOM 알고리즘을 제안하여 간암 판별에 적용한 후, 기존의 SOM 알고리즘과 비교 분석한 결과. 본 논문에서 제안된 SOM 알고리즘을 적용한 간암 추출이 더 효율적임을 확인 할 수 있었으며, 전문의가 판별한 것과 비교 분석한 결과, 전문의를 보조할 수 있는 보조 전문가 시스템으로서의 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.