• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.600-602
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• 2001

본 논문은 웨이블릿 필터를 이용하여 홍채영상의 에지를 검출하고 패턴매칭 기법을 적용하여 홍채의 결함조직에 대한 위치를 추정하는 연구이다. 필터는 웨이블릿 변환을 이용한 2차원 주파수 영역의 고역통과 필터를 사용하여 홍채영상의 에지를 검출하고, 이를 표준진단패턴과 오버랩 매칭으로 결함조직을 검출한다. 실험결과 처리속도가 기존의 에지검출기법에 비해 처리속도향상과 에지검출영상의 PSNR 증가에 따라 오버랩 패턴매칭기법에 의한 인식률에서 92%로 홍채결함조직을 자동 진단시스템에 응용 가능하다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.211-216
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• 2017

This paper proposes image processing techniques that improve usability and performance in a diagnostic system of the contrast-enhanced ultrasonography. For a methodology for visualizing diagnostic parameter data in an ultrasonic medical image, an expression of transition time data with successive pixel values and a method of generating a lesion diagnostic parameter image with four categorized values are presented. We also introduce a MRF-based image enhancement technique to eliminate noises from generated parametric images. Such parametric image generation technique can overcome the difficulty of discriminating dynamic change in patterns in the ultrasonography. The technique clarifies the contour of the region in the original image and facilitates visual determination of the characteristics of the lesion through four colors. With regard to this MRF-based image enhancement, we define the energy function of consecutive pixel values and develop a technique to optimize it, and the usability of the proposed theory is examined through experiments with medical images.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.166-173
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• 2014

A noncontact nondestructive testing (NDT) method is proposed to detect the damage of pipeline structures and to identify the location of the damage. To achieve this goal, a scanning laser source actuation technique is utilized to generate a guided wave and scans a specific area to find damage location more precisely. The ND: YAG pulsed laser is used to generate Lamb wave and a piezoelectric sensor is installed to measure the structural responses. The measured responses are analyzed using three dimensional Fourier transformation (3DFT). The damage-sensitive features are extracted by wavenumber filtering based on the 3D FT. Then, flaw imaging techniques of a pipeline structures is conducted using the damage-sensitive features. Finally, the pipes with notches are investigated to verify the effectiveness and the robustness of the proposed NDT approach.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.553-555
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• 2002

컴퓨터지원진단(Computer Aided Diagnosis; CAD) 시스템은 방사선 의사들이 흉부 X-ray 영상에서 결절을 탐지하는데 있어 실제적으로 발생할 수 있는 오진율을 줄이고, 폐 결절이 존재하는 폐야에서 결절의 존재 유무를 판단하여 검출을 표시함으로써 진단율을 개선시킬 수 있도록 하였다. 본 논문은 흉부 X-ray 영상에서의 폐 결절을 추출하는데 유전자 알고리즘(Genetic Algorithm)을 이용한 템플릿 매칭(Template Matching) 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 흉부 X-ray 영상에 존재하는 결절과 레퍼런스 이미지를 매칭시켜 적합도를 계산한 후, 그 값을 통하여 수치가 낮은 개체를 선택하여 높은 개체와 교차시킨다. 그리고 레퍼런스 이미지는 결절이 존재하는 환자 X-ray 영상에서 샘플 노듈을 추출한 후 가우시안 분포를 갖는 512개의 레퍼런스 이미지를 생성하였다. 본 논문에서 사용된 영상은 결절 50개, 비결절 30개와 흉부 X-ray 영상에서 육안으로 판별이 가능한 결절 영상을 20개를 포함하여 총 100개 영상을 사용하였다. 실험 결과 83%의 결절을 자동 추출 하였으며, 가장 적절한 레퍼런스 이미지를 발견하고 이를 흉부영상에 매칭시켜 정확한 결절의 위치를 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.335-337
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• 2021

안저 영상 촬영기술이 발달되며 진단에 사용되는 안저 영상에는 시각적으로 많은 변화가 일어났다. 새로운 촬영 기법인 초광각 안저 영상은 기존 영상에 비해 넓은 범위의 영상을 생성할 수 있다. 촬영 범위가 넓어짐에 따라 이미지에는 왜곡이 발생하고, 이로 인해 안저 영상을 통한 황반 부위 진단에 어려움을 야기하기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 왜곡을 보정하고 초광각 안저 영상을 기존 안저 영상의 영역으로 변환하는 시스템을 강화학습을 통해 구축한다. 제안하는 방법은 A3C 강화학습법을 사용하며 실험 결과는 제안 방법을 통해 안저 영상을 자동으로 변환할 수 있음을 보여준다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.26-37
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• 2003

Unlike a medical doctor, a dentist performs all the tasks necessary for diagnosis and treatment of a disease all by himself. To increase the diagnostic accuracy, dentists need an efficient working environment providing much more integrated information of clinical data and radiographic image. In this paper, we propose an integrated environment for the dental hospital. It provides paperless and filmless hospital environment by integrating seamlessly three major operations for the dental hospital including patient record generation and management, clinical image acquisition and analysis, and treatment planning and simulation. This system also allows clinicians to provide more predictable dental care for the patients by supporting instant access to all the clinical data and quantitative data analysis.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.77-83
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• 2016

Recently, interests for maintenance of transmission tower are increasing to extend life of structures and reduce maintenance cost. However, existing classical diagnosis method of corrosion deteriorated degree on the transmission tower steel members, visual inspection, has a problem that error often due to difference of inspector's individual knowledge and experience. In order to solve the problem, this study carried out to develop the corrosion deterioration inspection tool for transmission tower steel members. This tool is composed of camera equipment and computer-aided diagnosis system. We standardized the photographing method by camera equipment to obtain suitable pictures for image processing. Diagnosis system was designed to evaluate automatically degree of corrosion deterioration for member of transmission tower on the basis of the RGB color image processing techniques. It is anticipated that developed the corrosion deterioration inspection tool will be very helpful in decision of optimal maintenance time for transmission tower corrosion.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.1264-1272
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• 2012

Three-dimensional volume rendering method which shows the inside of human body is widely used in medical imaging area. Existing medical imaging system using a volume rendering method already has provided a variety of three-dimensional results. Recently existing results in the medical imaging among physicians and patients to facilitate communication have been studied since smart device which has advantage of portability applied in the medical imaging. In this paper, we propose 3D volume visualization system for a relatively low spec portable smart devices by using 2D textures and we also implements 2D diagnostic images of portable medical imaging visualization system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.759-762
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 건축물의 안전 진단에 최우선 요소로 고려되는 크랙(Crack : 갈라진 틈)을 영상 처리에 의해 자동 검출하고 크랙의 여러 가지 특징들을 자동으로 추출하는 방법에 대해 제안하고자 한다. 이는 우선 카메라로 입력한 건축불의 영상에서 전처리과정을 통해 잡음제거를 행하고 이에 경계 추출과 세선화 과정을 통해 크랙의 영역을 검출한다. 이후 크랙들의 특징을 추출하기 위해 크랙들을 분할하며 분할된 크랙들에 대해 곡선 적합을 통해 크랙들의 방향과 길이 등과 같은 특징들을 추출해 낸다. 본 논문에서 개발코자 하는 시스템은 크랙들의 특징들을 자동으로 추출해 냄으로써 기초적인 건축물의 안전 진단을 자동으로 행하는 시스템이 되리라 여겨진다.

• 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.