• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.443-445
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• 2021

갑상선 결절(thyroid nodule)은 검진 인구에서 빈번하게 진단되는 질환이지만 현재까지 진단방법은 경험적이며 정성적 판단에 의존하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구는 갑상선 결절을 평가하기 위하여 시행한 초음파 의료영상을 이용하여 정량 분석할 수 있는 소프트웨어를 개발하였으며 갑상선 양성 결절환자에서의 임상활용 가능성을 평가하고자 한다. 임상 연구는 총 13명의 갑상선 양성 결절 환자를 대상으로 하였다. 환자별 갑상선 초음파영상을 이용하여 정상부위와 병변부위에서 정량 지표인 변동계수를 각각 측정하였다. 환자별 정상부위와 병변부위의 변동계수 차이는 대응표본 T 검정을 사용하여 비교하였으며 유의한 차이를 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구를 통하여 개발한 정량분석 소프트웨어를 실제 갑상선 양성 결절 환자에서 갑상선 결절을 분석·평가하는데 활용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.84-85
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• 1998

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.602-605
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• 2021

최근 인공지능 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있는 가운데 국내외에서 오픈 데이터셋을 제공하고 있어 기술개발이 가속화되고 있다. 데이터셋은 지도학습을 위한 학습데이터로 라벨링 데이터를 포함하고 있어 다양한 라벨링 기능이 적용된 도구 개발이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 의료영상의 라벨링 데이터를 정교하고 빠르게 생성하기 위한 라벨링 웹 애플리케이션에 대해서 기술한다. 이를 구현하기 위해서 Back Projection, Grabcut 기법을 이용한 반자동 방식과 기계학습 모델을 통해서 예측한 자동 방식의 라벨링 기능을 구현하였다. 이와 관련하여 라벨링 기능별 수행 결과를 근감소증 진단을 위한 영상 라벨링 수행결과와 정량분석 결과를 보였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.498-504
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• 2009

In the PACS system, the radiology image(X-ray) and its report are saved as separated parts. The exchange of the radiology image between clinics that installed this system are easily achieved by the DICOM standardization. But it is difficult to exchange the radiology report between clinics because a solution of PACS system is different according to manufacturers. The radiology report should be unified the vocabulary and the type of code for effective sharing and exchanging, and also the radiology image and its report should be integrated for the accurate analysis. In this paper, we propose the sharing system of medical information based on HL7-CDA, it defines the templates and converts the structured documents. For this purpose, we design the XML schema of the radiology report and turn the DICOM files into defined schema. The HL7-CDA documents based on XML is easily displayed on web browser and can help the diagnosis by inserting the radiology image.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.227-232
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• 2013

The pixels used in a digital X-ray detector have different sensitivities and offset values. A non-uniform image is consequently obtained. Flat-field correction was introduced to resolve this problem and carried out image preprocessing in a digital imaging system. Nevertheless, the non-uniform images caused by several reasons have been being occasionally acquired. In this study, the non-uniform images acquired in digital imaging systems were applied to flat-field correction, and NPSs were calculated and analyzed with those images before and after correction. It was confirmed that low frequency noise were effectively eliminated.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.69-78
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• 2016

Ischemic stroke is a disease that the brain tissues cannot function by reducing blood flow due to thrombosis or embolisms. Due to the nature of the disease, it is most important to identify the status of cerebral vessel and the medical images are necessarily used for its diagnosis. Among many indicators, brain MRI is most widely utilized because experts can effectively obtain the semantic information such as cerebral anatomy aiding the diagnosis with it. However, in case of emergency diseases like ischemic stroke, even though a intelligent system is required for supporting the prompt diagnosis and treatment, the current systems have some difficulties to provide the information of medical images intuitively. In other words, as the current systems have managed the medical images based on the basic meta-data such as image name, ID and so on, they cannot consider semantic information inherent in medical images. Therefore, in this paper, to provide core information like cerebral anatomy contained in brain MRI, we suggest a template-driven medical images mapping method. The key idea of the method is defining the mapping characteristics between anatomic feature and representative images by using template images that can be representative of the whole brain MRI image set and revealing the semantic relations that only medical experts can check between images. With our method, it will be possible to manage the medical images based on semantic.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.132-137
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• 2019

The amount of data generated from medical images is increasingly exceeding the limits of professional visual analysis, and the need for automated medical image analysis is increasing. For this reason, this study evaluated the classification and accuracy according to the presence or absence of tumor using Inception V3 deep learning model, using MRI medical images showing normal and tumor findings. As a result, the accuracy of the deep learning model was 90% for the training data set and 86% for the validation data set. The loss rate was 0.56 for the training data set and 1.28 for the validation data set. In future studies, it is necessary to secure the data of publicly available medical images to improve the performance of the deep learning model and to ensure the reliability of the evaluation, and to implement modeling by improving the accuracy of labeling through labeling classification.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.881-887
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• 2023

This study aims to analyze the development and current trends of AI-based medical imaging devices commercialized in South Korea. As of September 30, 2023, there were a total of 186 AI-based medical devices licensed, certified, and reported to the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, of which 138 were related to imaging. The study comprehensively examined the yearly approval trends, equipment types, application areas, and key functions from 2018 to 2023. The study found that the number of AI medical devices started from four products in 2018 and grew steadily until 2023, with a sharp increase after 2020. This can be attributed to the interaction between the advancement of AI technology and the increasing demand in the medical field. By equipment, AI medical devices were developed in the order of CT, X-ray, and MR, which reflects the characteristics and clinical importance of the images of each equipment. This study found that the development of AI medical devices for specific areas such as the thorax, cranial nerves, and musculoskeletal system is active, and the main functions are medical image analysis, detection and diagnosis assistance, and image transmission. These results suggest that AI's pattern recognition and data analysis capabilities are playing an important role in the medical imaging field. In addition, this study examined the number of Korean products that have received international certifications, particularly the US FDA and European CE. The results show that many products have been certified by both organizations, indicating that Korean AI medical devices are in line with international standards and are competitive in the global market. By analyzing the impact of AI technology on medical imaging and its potential for development, this study provides important implications for future research and development directions. However, challenges such as regulatory aspects, data quality and accessibility, and clinical validity are also pointed out, requiring continued research and improvement on these issues.

• 전기의세계
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.26-31
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• 1989

PET는 다른 nuclear imaging system(SPECT등)과는 달리 기계적 collimator가 필요없이 전자적 collimation을 할 수 있고 이런 collimation역할로 인하여 SPECT보다 감도(sensitivity)가 좋고 또한 전체 영상영역에 걸쳐 해상도와 감도가 균일하며 감쇄상수의 보정이 쉽다. 기존 X선 CT나 NMR-CT에 비해 해상도와 신호대 잡음비가 떨어짐에도 불구하고 PET 시스템 독특한 장점은 영상 자체가 단순한 영상을 재현하는 것이 아니라 인체내의 생태학적 또는 생리학적인 변화에 대한 정량적 분석이 가능하다는데 있다. 즉, $^{11}$ C, $^{13}$N, $^{15}$ O, $^{18}$ F와 같은 물질은 인체내에 생리적현상과 매우 밀접한 관계를 가지고 있어 이들 물질의 분포나 변화를 제공하는 것은 다른 의료 영상기기와 뚜렷이 구별되는 점이라 할 수 있다. 따라서 앞으로 분해 능력이 2-3mm의 PET시스템의 개발은 임상은 물론 의료연구용으로 매우 유용할 것이며 종래의 NMR과 X선 CT 와는 다른 보완적인 정보를 제공하는 영상시스템으로써 의료산업계의 발전에 크게 기여를 할 것이라고 본다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.2
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• pp.164-172
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 시각화와 공간적, 속성 혼합 쿼리를 수행할 수 있는 관계형 데이터베이스를 설계하고 구현하였다. 쿼리에 사용되는 데이터형은 슬라이스, MPR, 볼륨 렌더링으로 시각화할 수 있으며, 쿼리는 아탈라스를 이용하는 경우와 그렇지 않는 경우를모두 고려하였다. 영상 데이터는 공간충전 곡선으로 공간적으로 클러스트링한 후 무손실 압축하여 데이터베이스에 저장된다. 본 논문은 저장 데이터의 양을 줄이기 위하여 관심영역의 크기에 따라 창의 크기가 변하는 적응적 Hibert 곡선을 제안하였으며, 실험에서 Hibert 곡선의 적용한 데이터보다 약 1.15배 높은 압축율을 보였다. 또한 아틀라스에 대한 뇌종양의 공간적 쿼리 결과를 통하여 본 의료 영상 데이터베이스의 유용성을 보였다.