• Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.14-23
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• 2023

The pressure difference across stenotic blood vessels is a commonly used clinical metric for diagnosing many cardiovascular diseases. At present, most clinical pressure measurements rely solely on invasive catheterization. In this study, we propose a novel method for non-invasive pressure estimation using the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and a 3D multi-path integration approach. We verify spatio-temporal convergence on an in-silico dataset of a cylindrical straight pipe phantom with steady and pulsatile flow fields. We then evaluate the proposed method on an in vitro dataset of reconstructed control, pre-operative, and post-operative carotid artery cases acquired from 4D flow MRI. The performance of our method is compared to existing approaches based on the pressure Poisson equation and work-energy relative pressure. The results demonstrate the proposed method's high accuracy, robustness to spatio-temporal subsampling, and reduced sensitivity to noise, highlighting its great potential for non-invasive pressure estimation.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.542-551
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• 2000

In this paper, a novel technique is presented for automatic brain region segmentation in single channel MR image data sets for 3D visualization and analysis. The method detects brain contours in 2D and 3D processing of four steps. The first and the second make a head mask and an initial brain mask by automatic thresholding using a curve fitting technique. The stage 3 reconstructs 3D volume of the initial brain mask by cubic interpolation and generates an intermediate brain mask using morphological operation and labeling of connected components. In the final step, the brain mask is refined by automatic thresholding using curve fitting. This algorithm is useful for fully automatic brain region segmentation of T1-weighted, T2-weighted, PD-weighted, SPGR MRI data sets without considering slice direction and covering a whole volume of a brain. In the experiments, the algorithm was applied to 20 sets of MR images and showed over 0.97 in comparison with manual drawing in similarity index.

• 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.39-42
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• 2003

Leading edge extension(LEX) in a highly swept shape applied to a delta wing features the modern air-fighters. The LEX vortices generated upon the upper surface of the wing at high angle of attack enhance the lift force of the delta wing by way of increased negative suction pressure over the surfaces. The present 3-D stereo PIV includes the Identification of 2-D cross-correlation equation, stereo matching of 2-D velocity vectors of two cameras, accurate calculation of 3-D velocity vectors by homogeneous coordinate system, removal of error vectors by a statistical method followed by a continuity equation criterion and so on. A delta wing model with or without LEX was immersed in a circulating water channel. Two high-resolution, high-speed digital cameras$(1280pixel\times1024pixel)$ were used to allow the time-resolved animation work. The present dynamic stereo PIV represents the complicated vortex behavior, especially, in terms of time-dependent characteristics of the vortices at given measuring sections. Quantities such as three velocity vector components, vorticity and other flow information can be easily visualized via the 3D time-resolved post-processing to make the easy understanding of the LEX effect or vortex emerging and collapse which are important phenomena occurring in the field of delta wing aerodynamics.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.263-269
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• 2014

Flight test data visualization functions can improve an understanding of flight test results, test procedures, and the performance of a flight vehicle after flight tests. FlyingView was developed for researchers to analyse flight test data in a 3D virtual environment. It also can display X-Y plots using flight test data. It was developed and applied to flight tests of an air-to-ground weapon system of ADD. This paper describes the capabilities of FlyingView.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.3 s.303
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• pp.41-50
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• 2005

A novel image mosaicking technique suitable for 3D urban visualization is proposed. It is not effective to apply 2D image mosaicking techniques for urban visualization when, for example, one is filming a sequence of images from a side-looking video camera along a road in an urban area. The proposed method presents the roadside scene captured by a side-looking video camera as a continuous set of textured planar faces, which are termed 'multiple planes' in this paper. The exterior parameters of each frame are first calculated through automatically selected matching feature points. The matching feature points are also used to estimate a plane approximation of the scene geometry for each frame. These planes are concatenated to create an approximate model on which images are back-projected as textures. Here, we demonstrate algorithm that creates efficient image mosaics in 3D space from a sequence of real images.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.6
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• pp.553-560
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• 2008

The amount of image data used in medical institution is increasing rapidly with great development of medical technology. Therefore, an automation method that use image processing description, rather than manual macrography of doctors, is required for the analysis large medical data. Specially, medical image registration, which is the process of finding the spatial transform that maps points from one image to the corresponding points in another image, and 3D analysis and visualization skills for a series of 2D images are essential technologies. However, a high establishment cost raise a budget problem, and hence small scaled hospitals hesitate importing these medical visualizing system. In this paper, we propose a visualization system which allows user to manage datasets and manipulates medical images registration using an open source graphics tool - VTK(Visualization Tool Kit). The propose of our research is to get more accurate 3D diagnosis system in less expensive price, compared to existing systems.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.6-12
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• 2004

웹은 플랫폼에 의존하지 않고 모든 사람들이 공통으로 이용할 수 있는 인터페이스를 제공하기 때문에 웹브라우저상에 3차원 의료 데이터를 가시화하여 표현한다면 원격 진단, 의료 교육 등에 이용될 수 있다. 이 논문은 3차원 의료정보를 3차원 의료 볼륨 데이터, 3차원 의료 영상, 볼륨 렌더링 응용의 3 종류로 구분하여 이들을 XML로 표현하는 방법 및 텍스처 맵핑 기반의 디렉트볼륨렌더링(Direct Volume Rendering)을 SVG(Scalable Vector Graphics)으로 표현하여 SVG 뷰어 상에 표시하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법의 실행 결과는 웹 브라우저 상에서 의료데이터의 분석이 가능하게 하고, 또한 볼륨렌더링 응용프로그램을 SVG로 표현, 결과 이미지를 SVG 뷰어로의 표시가 가능하다는 것을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.612-614
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• 1998

뇌정위 수술(Stereotactic Surgery)은 컴퓨터 단층영상과 자기공명 영상 같은 3차원 영상을 이용하여 뇌병변의 위치를 입체적으로 정확히 파악하여 정상 뇌에 대한 손상을 최소화하며 병변을 수술하는 기법이다. 본 논문에서는 수술 받을 환자의 컴퓨터 단층영상과 자기공명 영상 등 다양한 종류의 3차원 볼륨 데이터를 전처리한 다음 동일한 3차원 공간 내에서 정렬시켜 선택적 또는 동시적으로 3차원 영상을 가시화 하는 기법을 제안한다. 또한 3차원 영상에서 뇌정위 수술의 삽입점과 목표점을 지정할 수 있는 기능을 지원하며 수술 경로에 따른 가상 수술의 시뮬레이션을 통하여 수술 경로의 안전성을 검증할 수 있게 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.619-621
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• 2003

CT, MRI와 같은 의료 영상을 3차원 재구성을 통해 3차원으로 가시화하는 기술은 의료 분야에서 진단과 진료에 많이 활용되고 있다. 이는 의사에게 정확한 진단과 시술에 대한 확신을 환자에게는 시술에 대한 이해와 신뢰를 심어준다. 치아의 경우 치과 진료가 개개의 치아에 이루어진다는 점을 고려하면 개개의 치아가 개별적으로 모델링 되어 3차원 상에 가시화 되어야 한다. Contour 기반 알고리즘은 2차원 단면 데이터로부터 고속 렌더링과 높은 품질의 3차원 모델 생성이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 CT에서 추출한 치아 contour 데이터로부터 삼각형 패치를 생성하고, 어금니의 분기 문제를 해결하는 3차원 치아 모델 생성을 위한 contour 기반 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.476-479
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• 2000

한국전력연구원은 로봇제어기술과 가상현실기술을 접목하는 과정의 일환으로 로봇작업을 3D 그래픽으로 가시화(Visualization) 하는 연구를 수행하고 있다 본 논문에서는 원자력발전소 증기발생기 내부에 발생하는 슬러지를 제거하기 위한 로봇시스템과 그 작업내용의 3차원 Visualization 시스템 개발에 관한 내용을 다룬다. 본 시스템은 Microsoft사의 제작툴인 DirectX를 그래픽엔진으로 사용하였으며 C++로 작성되어있어 매우 개방적인 구조를 가지고 있어 타 분야로의 적용이 용이하다.