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Using 3D image-based body shape Measurement to increase the accuracy of body shape Measurement (체형 측정의 정확도를 높이기 위한 3차원 영상 기반의 체형 측정 활용)

  • So, Ji Ho;Jeon, Young-Ju
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.803-806
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    • 2020
  • The body shape measurement method using 3D images has been widely used due to the recent development of 3D measurement cameras and algorithms. Existing 3D imaging devices are expensive devices, and there is a limit to their universalization. Due to the recent spread of inexpensive 3D cameras and the development of various measurement methods, various possibilities are being shown. It is expected to have a great impact on the medical device market that requires accurate data collection. Various medical device products using artificial intelligence are emerging, and accurate data collection is the most important to develop accurate artificial intelligence algorithms. Collection equipment using 3D cameras is expected to act as a major factor in the development of artificial intelligence algorithms using 3D images.

A Study on High-Resolution Technique in MRI Scan for Cerebral Aneurysm Disease -Comparison between High-Resolution Technique and Standard Technique- (뇌 동맥류 질환 자기공명검사에서 고분해능(High-Resolution) 기법의 관한 연구 - 고분해능기법과 표준기법 비교 -)

  • Choi, Sung-Hyun;Goo, Eun-Hoe;Hwang, Sun-Kwang;Lee, Gang-Won;Lee, Jong-Woong
    • Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to examine usefulness of 3T equipment-based time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (3T-TOF MRA) by comparing standard technique (ST) with high resolution technique (HRT) in evaluation of cerebral blood vessel. The 3T-TOF MRA was performed for 31 patients who were suspected of having cerebrovascular disease from March to July 2010. For evaluation of cerebral blood vessel, classification was conducted randomly: group I that included vertebral artery and basilar artery, group II that ranged from 2.5cm before basin part of common carotid artery to basin part of internal and external carotid arteries and to genu part of internal carotid artery, group III that ranged from vertebral part of internal carotid artery to the first basin art of anterior and middle cerebral through education recognizes the importance of dose reduction and examine if their efforts and further reduce patient dose could achieve optimization of the medical exposure is considered.

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The Evaluation of Image Quality According to the Change of Reconstruction Algorithm of CT Images (재구성 알고리즘 변화에 따른 CT 영상의 화질 평가)

  • Han, Dong-Kyoon;Park, Kun-Jin;Ko, Shin-Kwan
    • Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.127-132
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    • 2010
  • In this study, the correlation among the changes of Modulation Transfer Function(MTF) in the noise and high-contrast resolution and the change of Contrast to noise ratio(CNR) in the low-contrast resolution will be examined to investigate the estimation of image quality according to the type of algorithms. The image data obtained by scanning American Association of Physicists in Medicine(AAPM) phantom was applied to each algorithm and the exposure condition of 120 kVp, 250 mAs, and then the CT number and noise were measured. The MTF curved line of the high-contrast resolution was calculated with Point Spread Function(PSF) by using the analysis program by Philips, resulting in 0.5 MTF, 0.1 MTF and 0.02 MTF respectively. The low-contrast resolution was calculated with CNR and the uniformity was measured to each algorithm. Since the measurement value for the uniformity of the equipment was below ${\pm}$ 5 HU, which is the criterion figure, it was found to belong to the normal range. As the algorithm got closer from soft to edge, the standard deviation of CT number increased, which indicates that the noise increased as well. As for MTF, 0.5 MTF, 0.1 MTF and 0.02 MTF were all sharp algorithms, and as the algorithm got closer from soft to edge, it was possible to distinguish more clearly with the naked eye. On the other hand, CNR gradually decreased, because the difference between the contrast hole CT number and the acrylic CT number was the same while the noise of hole increased.

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A Study on the Analysis and Verification of Evaluation system for the Usability Evaluation of Purpose-Based XR Devices (목적 기반 XR 디바이스의 사용성 평가를 위한 평가체계 분석 및 검증 연구)

  • Young Woo Cha;Gi Hyun Lee;Chang Kee Lee;Sang Bong Lee;Ohung Kwon;Chang Gyu Lee;Joo Yeoun Lee;JungMin Yun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.20 no.spc1
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    • pp.56-64
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    • 2024
  • This study aims to compare and evaluate the usability of domestic and overseas XR devices. With the recent release of 'Apple Vision Pro', interest in the XR field is increasing rapidly. XR devices are being used in various fields such as defense, medical care, education, and entertainment, but the evaluation system for evaluating usability is still insufficient. Therefore, this study aims to derive improvements in domestic equipment through comparative evaluation of usability for two HMD-type devices and one glasses-type device that are released. In order to conduct the study, 20 participants in their 20s to 30s who were interested in XR devices and had no visual sensory organ-related disabilities were evaluated by wearing VR equipment. As a quantitative evaluation, electromyography through an EMG sensor and the device and body temperature of the device through a thermal imaging camera were measured. As a qualitative evaluation, the safety of wearing, ease of wearing, comfort of wearing, and satisfaction of wearing were evaluated. As a result of comparing the usability of the devices based on the results, it was confirmed that domestic HMD-type device needs improvement in the strap part.

Evaluation of Angle Dependence on Positional Radioisotope Source Detector using Monte Carlo Simulation in NDT (몬테카를로 시뮬레이션을 이용한 방사선원 위치 검출기의 각도의존성 연구)

  • Han, Moojae;Heo, Seunguk;Shin, Yohan;Jung, Jaehoon;Kim, Kyotae;Heo, Yeji;Lee, Deukhee;Cho, Heunglae;Park, Sungkwang
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.141-146
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    • 2019
  • Radiation sources used in the field of industrial non-destructive pose a risk of exposure due to ageing equipment and operator carelessness. Thus, the need for a safety management system to trace the location of the source is being added. In this study, Monte Carlo Simulation was performed to analyse the angle dependence of the unit-cell comprising the line-array dosimeter for tracking the location of radiation sources. As a result, the margin of error for the top 10% of each slope was 5.90% at $0^{\circ}$, 8.08% at $30^{\circ}$, and 20.90% at $60^{\circ}$. The ratio of the total absorbed dose was 83.77% at $30^{\circ}$ and 53.36% at $60^{\circ}$ based on $0^{\circ}$(100%) and showed a tendency to decrease with increasing slope. For all gradients, the maximum number was shown at $30^{\circ}$ No. 9 pixels, and for No. 10, there was a tendency to drop 7.24 percent. This study has shown a large amount of angle dependence, and it is estimated that the proper distance between the source and line-array dosimeters should be maintained at a distance of not less than 1 cm to reduce them.

A Performance Improvement of Ultrasonic Diagnosis Transducer by Transient Acoustic Field Analysis (과도음장 해석을 통한 초음파 진단 탐촉자의 성능 개선)

  • 박은주;송행용;김무준;김동현;이수성;하강열
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.744-756
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    • 2002
  • The transient acoustic fields formed by a 3.5 ㎒ curved linear array transducer which is commonly used in ultrasonic medical imaging system for diagnosis of abdomen are systematically analyzed to obtain new design parameters for the better acoustic image. In the analysis with an assumption of radiating waveform, element size, radius of curvature, amplitude apodization are considered as parameters giving constitutive relations with the fields. As simulation results, appropriate new parameters with the reduced curvature and elevation aperture and the apodization of Hamming window, which make an improved acoustic beam with lower side lobe levels than a conventional typical transducer, are obtained.

Multimodal Bio-signal Measurement System for Sleep Analysis (수면 분석을 위한 다중 모달 생체신호 측정 시스템)

  • Kim, Sang Kyu;Yoo, Sun Kook
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.609-616
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we designed a multimodal bio-signal measurement system to observe changes in the brain nervous system and vascular system during sleep. Changes in the nervous system and the cerebral blood flow system in the brain during sleep induce a unique correlation between the changes in the nervous system and the blood flow system. Therefore, it is necessary to simultaneously observe changes in the brain nervous system and changes in the blood flow system to observe the sleep state. To measure the change of the nervous system, EEG, EOG and EMG signal used for the sleep stage analysis were designed. We designed a system for measuring cerebral blood flow changes using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Among the various imaging methods to measure blood flow and metabolism, it is easy to measure simultaneously with EEG signal and it can be easily designed for miniaturization of equipment. The sleep stage was analyzed by the measured data, and the change of the cerebral blood flow was confirmed by the change of the sleep stage.

An Optimized GPU based Filtered Backprojection method (범용 그래픽스 하드웨어 기반 여과후 역투사 최적화 기법에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jong-Hyun;Lee, Byeong-Hun;Lee, Ho;Shin, Yeong-Gil
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.02a
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    • pp.436-442
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    • 2009
  • Tomography images reconstructed from conebeam CT make it possible to observe inside of the projected object without any damage, and so it has been widely used in the industrial and medical fields. Recent advanced imaging equipment can produce high-resolution CT images. However, it takes much time to reconstruct the obtained large dataset. To reduce the time to reconstruct CT images, we propose an accelerating method using GPU (graphics processing unit). Reconstruction consists of mainly two parts, filtering and back-projection. In filtering phase, we applied 4ch image compression method and in back-projection phase, computation reduction method using depth test is applied. The experimental results show that the proposed method accelerates the speed 50 times than the CPU-based program optimized with OpenMP by utilizing the high-computing power of parallelized GPU.

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A Study on the magnetization of metal orthopedic prosthesis in magnetic resonance imaging (자기공명 영상장치에서 정형보철금속의 자화(磁化)에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyeong-Gyun;Song, Duk-Chung;Choi, Seong-Dae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.34-39
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    • 2013
  • For orthopedic artificial metal stainless steel, the magnetization of the magnetic field due to the presence of the titanium was to observe the change. Magnetic field meter (Tesla meters) a certain distance (ISO Centre) 1.5 Tesla magnetic field, the magnetization in the center with the passage of time were measured. Therefore, these artificial metal clip shape and magnetization of the sample size to produce a ferromagnetic material for comparison is the experimental dependence. For comparison of the experimental dependence of the magnetization, thereby producing a test piece size such as shaping prosthetic metal Clip is a ferromagnetic material. The experimental results, the metal orthopedic implants, there was no change in the magnetization indicated by ferromagnetic material in its natural state. However, in a magnetic field of 1.5T (Tesla), showed a sensitivity that is magnetized rapidly compared to the ferromagnetic material. In conclusion, high in the order of Clip, Stainless, of Titanium, the degree of dependence of the magnetization intensity of magnetization was the order Stainless, Titanium, of Clip in a magnetic field.

A Design of Access Control Method for Security Enhance based Smart Device (스마트 디바이스 기반의 보안성 강화를 위한 접근제어 기법 설계)

  • Park, Jungoh
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2018
  • Smart devices refer to various devices and control equipment such as health care devices, imaging devices, motor devices and wearable devices that use wireless network communication (e.g., Wi-fi, Bluetooth, LTE). Commercial services using such devices are found in a wide range of fields, including home networks, health care and medical services, entertainment and toys. Studies on smart devices have also been actively undertaken by academia and industry alike, as the penetration rate of smartphones grew and the technological progress made with the fourth industrial revolution bring about great convenience for users. While services offered through smart devices come with convenience, there is also various security threats that can lead to financial loss or even a loss of life in the case of terrorist attacks. As attacks that are committed through smart devices tend to pick up where attacks based on wireless internet left off, more research is needed on related security topics. As such, this paper seeks to design an access control method for reinforced security for smart devices. After registering and authenticating the smart device from the user's smart phone and service provider, a safe communication protocol is designed. Then to secure the integrity and confidentiality of the communication data, a management process such as for device renewal or cancellation is designed. Safety and security of the existing systems against attacks are also evaluated. In doing so, an improved efficiency by approximately 44% compared to the encryption processing speed of the existing system was verified.