• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.147-154
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• 2020

In this study, four types of composite added filtration (aluminum, nickel, copper, and zinc) were combined for each thickness to evaluate dose reduction and optimal images due to X-ray attenuation. To evaluate dose and image quality. X-ray generators, Dose Area Product(DAP) and ICY programs with RQR9 standard quality were used. In the image quality evaluation element (PSNR, RMSE, SSIM), only images with PSNR value of 30 dB or more were analyzed. As a result, the best combination in dose evaluation was 3 mmAl + 0.6 mmNi (0.16µGy㎡), and the best filter in image quality evaluation was 0.9 mmAl (PSNR 34.24dB, RMSE 79.52, SSIM 0.24). In this study, the dose aspect and the image quality aspect are mentioned, So it is considered that further studies on patient's exposure dose and optimal image will be needed in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.523-526
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• 2003

디지털 영상장비 및 화질관련 ASIC 을 개발하는 데 있어서 영상의 화질개선을 위한 보다 과학적이고 객관적인 개발 방법 및 영상 품질 평가 방법의 개발이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 LG PDP 60", DTV 에 장착되는 ASIC 에 적용된 화질 개선 알고리즘 개발을 중심으로 다양한 종류의 영상장비 생산 현장에서 컬러과학 및 이미징과학에 대한 전문 지식이 없이 쉽게 알고리즘을 개발하고, 개발된 알고리즘을 관찰자 실험을 통해 평가, 분석할 수 있도록 개발한 컬러이미징 지원도구$(MagicQuality^{TM})$에 대하여 설명한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.157-165
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• 2023

Ultrasound imaging uses sound waves of frequencies to cause physical actions such as reflection, absorption, refraction, and transmission at the edge between different tissues. Improvement is needed because there is a lot of noise due to the characteristics of the data generated from the ultrasound equipment, and it is difficult to grasp the shape of the tissue to be actually observed because the edge is vague. The edge enhancement method is used as a method to solve the case where the edge surface looks clumped due to a decrease in image quality. In this paper, as a method to strengthen the interface, the quality improvement was confirmed by strengthening the interface, which is the high-frequency part, in each image using an unsharpening mask and high boost. The mask filtering used for each image was evaluated by measuring PSNR and SNR. Abdominal, head, heart, liver, kidney, breast, and fetal images were obtained from Philips epiq5g and affiniti70g and Alpinion E-cube 15 ultrasound equipment. The program used to implement the algorithm was implemented with MATLAB R2022a of MathWorks. The unsharpening and high-boost mask array size was set to 3*3, and the laplacian filter, a spatial filter used to create outline-enhanced images, was applied equally to both masks. ImageJ program was used for quantitative evaluation of image quality. As a result of applying the mask filter to various ultrasound images, the subjective image quality showed that the overall contour lines of the image were clearly visible when unsharpening and high-boost mask were applied to the original image. When comparing the quantitative image quality, the image quality of the image to which the unsharpening mask and the high boost mask were applied was evaluated higher than that of the original image. In the portal vein, head, gallbladder, and kidney images, the SNR, PSNR, RMSE and MAE of the image to which the high-boost mask was applied were measured to be high. Conversely, for images of the heart, breast, and fetus, SNR, PSNR, RMSE and MAE values were measured as images with the unsharpening mask applied. It is thought that using the optimal mask according to the image will help to improve the image quality, and the contour information was provided to improve the image quality.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.51-56
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• 2011

In this paper, a variety of digital image processing technique was applied to improve the quality of medical images which is a chest CR image. And the image quality was performed. On the other hand, the high-frequency emphasis filtering and the histogram equalization were realized by MATLAB programs to better the contrast of the chest CR image. As a result of simulation, the sharpness of the original image was elevated by the high-frequency emphasis filtering and the histogram equalization. To evaluate the degree which is improved the image quality by the digital image processing, the subjective evaluation is used by the observation of the image. The sensitivity which is the probability to find a signal or a lesion is calculated. The sensitivity of the image performed the high-frequency emphasis filtering and the histogram equalization became more improved than that of the original and the digital image processing performed in the medical image improved the quality of the image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.128-130
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• 2013

양안식 3DTV 비디오의 효율적인 압축을 위해 다양한 기술들이 연구되었으며, 그 중 좌우영상으로 상이한 해상도의 영상을 사용하는 비대칭 양안식 영상은 인간의 시각시스템이 상이한 해상도의 양안식 양상을 높은 쪽 영상의 품질에 가깝게 인지하는 특성을 이용한 대표적인 비트레이트를 절감 방식이다. 이에 다양한 연구에서 좌우해상도 차이에 따른 화질 저하 정도를 측정하려는 시도가 이루어졌으나, 기존 연구에서는 적정 시청거리를 고려하지 않고 좌우 영상의 크기만을 고려하여 실험하였으며 따라서 각 연구별로 상이한 실험 결과가 도출되었다. 본 연구에서는 인간의 시각 시스템을 고려하여 적정 시청거리를 계산하고, 이에 따라 좌우영상 비율 별 화질평가를 수행하였다. 특히 본 연구에서는 좌영상을 IID급 방송콘텐츠로 가정하고, 우영상을 모바일 방송콘텐츠로 가정함으로써, 실험 결과의 방송 서비스 활용가능성을 높였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.4B
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• pp.314-321
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• 2011

There have been considerable standardization works to measure subjective video quality. However, these standardization methods are based on the situation where they have original or reference video sequences, and measure the video quality by looking the sequence during short time duration, e.g. 10 seconds. Since people's TV watching time durations in IPTV services are very long (e.g. more than 30 minutes), the quality measurements by the standards are not practical. In this paper, we analyze the effect of video quality rating period to MOS (Mean Opinion Score), and suggest a proper rating duration of subjective video quality for IPTV services.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.32-40
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed an reconstruction algorithm of transmitted frames from displayed image on video terminal. For image quality assessment of the video streaming in the wireless network, we need information of the image that is transmitted to the end-user's device. Generally, subjective methods are widely used to evaluate the image quality by human beings because it is difficult to extract the transmitted image from the end-user's device. This paper presents an image reconstruction algerian based on the displayed image in video terminal for the extraction of the transmitted image. In the proposed method, we acquired the displayed image on video terminal using the camera. Camera-acquired images exhibit geometric and color distortions caused by characteristics of cameras and display devices. Therefore we correct the geometric distortion by exploiting the homography and color distortion by pre-computed look-up table. The experimental results show that the proposed measurement system yields promising estimation performance in terms of PSNR of $27{\sim}28dB$. We also carried out performance evaluation of the proposed method in terms of EPSNR and the quality of the estimated images by the proposed algerian was in fairly good range of MOS test scale.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.24-35
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• 1997

Basic and transmission video quality testing was performed in real-time mode using hardware video codec based on MPEG-2 MP@ML standard including subsequent transmitting and receiving satellite simulator unit. The double-stimulus Impairment scale method and the double-stimulus continous quality scale method based on CCIR 500-5 were used as an evaluation method. The whole digital broadcasting satellite system consisting of MPEG-2 codec, system mux/demux, channel codec, channel, modem, antenna, etc. was put into the overall video quality testbed and the basic and transmission error quality assessment was performed at various bitrates and BER for an integrated system performance evaluation. In transmission error video quality testing, transmission error video quality maintained on average above 3.9 point on the 5-point scale. The low-bit rate quality such as film mode(@2Mbps) highly depended on the statitical characteristics of video source and maintained on average around 2.7 point.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.393-400
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to suggest a method to reduce the dose by Analyzing the dose area product (DAP) and image quality according to the change of tube current using NEMA Phantom. The spatial resolution and low contrast resolution were used as evaluation criteria in addition to signal to noise ratio (SNR) and contrast to noise ratio (CNR), which are important image quality parameters of intervention. Tube voltage was fixed at 80 kVp and the amount of tube current was changed to 20, 30, 40, and 50 mAs, and the dose area product and image quality were compared and analyzed. As a result, the dose area product increased from $1066mGycm^2$ to $6160mGycm^2$ to 6 times as the condition increased, while the spatial resolution and low contrast resolution were higher than 20 mAs and 30 mAs, Spatial resolution and low contrast resolution were observed below the evaluation criteria. In addition, the SNR and CNR increased up to 30 mAs, slightly increased at 40 mAs, but not significantly different from the previous one, and decreased at 50 mAs. As a result, the exposure dose significantly increased due to overexposure of the test conditions and the image quality deteriorated in all areas of spatial resolution, low contrast resolution, SNR and CNR.

• Information Display
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.34-43
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• 2012

네트워크 및 전송기술의 발달로, 고품질 HDTV, IPTV 및 3DTV 영상서비스가 가능하게 되었다. 통신망을 사용한 멀티미디어 서비스 및 DMB와 같은 이동 수신 방송 등은 사용자에게 편의성을 제공한다. 그러나 한정된 대역폭으로 인한 압축 열화와 전송오류로 인한 화질 열화의 발생으로 멀티미디어 서비스의 체감 품질(QoE: Quality of Experience)이 중요한 문제로 부각되고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 국제전기통신연합(ITU)과 VQEG 등의 국제 표준화 기관에서는 다양한 환경과 규격의 영상에 대해 영상의 품질을 측정하는 표준화를 진행하였다. 본 고에서는 동영상 화질 평가에 대해 기존에 진행된 표준에 대하여 소개하고, 현재 ITU에서 진행중인 표준화 동향 및 이슈들을 살펴본다.