• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.70-76
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• 2004

The most important work for early detection of liver cancer and decision of its characteristic and location is good segmentation of a liver region from other abdominal organs. This paper proposes a fully automatic liver segmentation algorithm based on the abdominal morphology characteristic as an easy and efficient method. Multi-modal threshold as pre-processing is peformed and a spine is segmented for finding morphological coordinates of an abdomen. Then the liver region is extracted using C-class maximum a posteriori (MAP) decision and morphological filtering. In order to estimate results of the automatic segmented liver region, area error rate (AER) and correlation coefficients of rotational binary region projection matching (RBRPM) are utilized. Experimental results showed automatic liver segmentation obtained by the proposed algorithm provided strong similarity to manual liver segmentation.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.171-176
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• 2005

This paper proposes an automatic liver segmentation method using improved partial histogram threshold (PHT) algorithms. This method removes neighboring abdominal organs regardless of random pixel variation of contrast enhanced CT images. Adaptive multi-modal threshold is first performed to extract a region of interest (ROI). A left PHT (LPHT) algorithm is processed to remove the pancreas, spleen, and left kidney. Then a right PHT (RPHT) algorithm is performed for eliminating the right kidney from the ROI. Finally, binary morphological filtering is processed for removing of unnecessary objects and smoothing of the ROI boundary. Ten CT slices of six patients (60 slices) were selected to evaluate the proposed method. As evaluation measures, an average normalized area and area error rate were used. From the experimental results, the proposed automatic liver segmentation method has strong similarity performance as the MSM by medical Doctor.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.234-239
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• 2014

This paper proposes a new automatic detection method to inspect mura defects on display film surface using morphological image processing and labeling. This automatic detection method for mura defects on display films comprises 3 phases of preprocessing with morphological image processing, Gabor filtering, and labeling. Since distorted results could be obtained with the presence of non-uniform illumination, preprocessing step reduces illumination components using morphological image processing. In Gabor filtering, mura images are created with binary coded mura components using Gabor filters. Subsequently, labeling is a final phase of finding the mura defect area using the difference between large mura defects and values in the periphery. To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed detection method, detection rate was assessed by applying the method in 200 display film samples. As a result, the detection rate was high at about 95.5%. Moreover, the study was able to acquire reliable results using the Semu index for luminance mura in image quality inspection.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.135-136
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• 2017

When driving at night time environment, the whole body of transports does not visible to us. Due to lack of light conditions, there are only two options, which is clearly visible their taillights and break lights. To improve the recognition correctness of vehicle detection, we present an approach to vehicle detection and tracking using finding contour of the object on binary image at night time. Bilateral filtering is used to make more clearly on threshold part. To remove unexpected small noises used morphological opening. In verification stage, paired tail lights are tracked during their existence in the ROI. The accuracy of the test results for vehicle detection is about 93%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.159-160
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 이동 가능한 로봇이 취득한 이진 평면도(binary floor map)의 필터링 알고리즘을 제안한다. 로봇청소기와 같은 가사로봇은 실내를 이동이면서 위치를 0 과 1 의 이진 코드로 기록함으로써 이진 실내 평면도를 생성하는데, 로봇의 위치센서 오류와 각종 장애물 등으로 인하여 이진 영상에 왜곡이 발생한다. 먼저 실내 평면도와 발생하는 왜곡의 특징을 분석하여 이를 효과적으로 검출하는 이진 패턴을 정의한다. 패턴에 기반한 모폴로지 변환(morphological transform)을 반복적으로 수행함으로써, 이진 실내 평면도의 왜곡을 줄이고 실제 평면도에 근사하도록 화질을 개선한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1696-1705
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• 1996

The theory of stack filtering, which is a generalization of median filtering, is used to the detection of intensity edges in noisey images. The proposed approach, called the Difference of Estimates(DoE) approach, is a new formulation of a morphological scheme which has been very sensitive to impulse noise. In this approach, stack filters are applied to a noisy image to obtain local estimates of the dilated and eroded versions of the noise-free image. Thresholding the difference between these two estimates yields the binary edge map. We find that this approach yields results comparable to those obtained with the Canny operator for images with additive Gaussian noise, burt works much better when the noise is impulsive.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.909-914
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• 2002

In this thesis, noise reduction of image with impulse noise in circle image removed noise to harness existing median filter for noise reduction from image data of damage by noise when impulse noise is high or noise reduction is low, but it is not made up of noise reduction to harness existing median filter in case of existence of non-impulse noise. Therefore noise reduction of image with non-impulse noise had to remove noise by morphological arithmetic in this thesis's proposition. In contrast to median filtering, result of edge detection is more efficient after remove non-impulse noise by method of thesis's proposition and it compare and demonstrate through this experimentation.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1995 no.05
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• pp.49-53
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• 1995

In this paper, we classify between the chromosome and blood cell, and find the location of chromosome. First, the gray level images be the binary images using the threshold method. Then, the spot noises are removed by the morphological filtering. Features are obtained using the updated Run length(RL) coding and are classified using the Bayes decision rule. The performances of classification are 83.3% in chromosome and 93.3% in blood cell. Because each sub-images ($256{\times}256$) is obtained from the full image($512{\times}512$), we realize the location of chromosome if we get the corrected chromosome classifications.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.839-842
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• 2009

It is used to differential image for moving object detection in general. But it is difficult to detect the accurate detection which uses differential image between frames. In this paper, the proposed method overcome the noise that is generated by camera, grabber card, or weather condition. It extract to moving big object such as human or vehicle. The proposed method process morphological filtering and binary for the image with noise, reduce error. We are expect to apply to a real-time moving object detection system at fog condition, pass the limit of the object detection method using the differential image.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.216-220
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• 2018

In this paper, we present visual sensing techniques that can be used to teach a robot using a laser pointer. The light spot of an off-the-shelf laser pointer is detected and its movement is tracked on consecutive images of a camera. The three-dimensional position of the spot is calculated using stereo cameras. The light spot on the image is detected based on its color, brightness, and shape. The detection results in a binary image, and morphological processing steps are performed on the image to refine the detection. The movement of the laser spot is measured using two methods. The first is a simple method of specifying the region of interest (ROI) centered at the current location of the light spot and finding the spot within the ROI on the next image. It is assumed that the movement of the spot is not large on two consecutive images. The second method is using a Kalman filter, which has been widely employed in trajectory estimation problems. In our simulation study of various cases, Kalman filtering shows better results mostly. However, there is a problem of fitting the system model of the filter to the pattern of the spot movement.