• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2016

The ultrasound imaging in medical diagnosis has become a popular modality because of its safe, noninvasive, portable, relatively inexpensive, and provides a real-time image formation. However, usefulness of ultrasound imaging is at times limited due to the presence of signal-dependent noise like as speckle. Therefore, noise reduction is very important, as various types of noise generated limits the effectiveness of medical image diagnosis. This paper introduces a speckle noise reduce algorithm using total variation denoising (TVD) in Laplacian pyramid. With this method, speckle is removed by TVD of bandpass ultrasound images in Laplacian pyramid domain. For TVD in each pyramid layer, a ${\lambda}$ is selected by trial-and-error method. The visual comparison of despeckled 'in vivo' ultrasound images from pancreas shows that the proposed method could effectively preserve edges and detailed structures while thoroughly suppressing speckle. For a Simulated B-mode image, contrast-to-noise-ratio (CNR) and signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) were obtained like 4.65 dB and 14.11 dB, respectively. The results show that the proposed method can conduct better than some of the existing methods in terms of the CNR and the SNR.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.24-30
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 안구 영상을 위한 OCT용 손잡이 형 프로브를 개발하였다. 프로브는 휴대하기 간편한 손잡이 형태로 구현하였으며, 어댑터의 대물렌즈를 교체함으로써 각막(cornea)과 망막(retina) 모두 영상화 할 수 있도록 설계 하였다. 시스템의 성능검증을 위해 in vivo로 실험용 쥐의 눈 영상을 2D로 획득하였으며, 획득한 영상을 3D 영상으로 재구성하였다. 3D 영상은 쥐의 미세한 부분의 구조를 잘 나타내었으며, 움직임에 의한 흔들림 현상(Motion artifact)이 나타나지 않았으므로 개발된 OCT시스템의 이미지 디스플레이 속도는 생체 내 실험 (in vivo)에 적합함을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.450-464
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• 2023

Pulse oximetry, a non-invasive technique for evaluating blood oxygen saturation, conventionally depends on isolated measurements, rendering it vulnerable to factors like illumination profile, spatial blood flow fluctuations, and skin pigmentation. Previous efforts to address these issues through imaging systems often employed red and near-infrared illuminations with distinct profiles, leading to inconsistent ratios of transmitted light and the potential for errors in calculating spatial oxygen saturation distributions. While an integrating sphere was recently utilized as an illumination source to achieve uniform red and near-infrared illumination profiles on the sample surface, its bulkiness presented practical challenges. In this work, we have enhanced the pulse oximetry imaging system by transitioning illumination from an integrating sphere to a multi-wavelength LED configuration. This adjustment ensures simultaneous emission of red and near-infrared light from the same position, creating a homogeneous illumination profile on the sample surface. This approach guarantees consistent patterns of red and near-infrared illuminations that are spatially uniform. The sustained ratio between transmitted red and near-infrared light across space enables precise calculation of the spatial distribution of oxygen saturation, making our pulse oximetry imaging system more compact and portable without compromising accuracy. Our work significantly contributes to obtaining spatial information on blood oxygen saturation, providing valuable insights into tissue oxygenation in peripheral regions.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.389.1-389.1
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• 2016

The flexible solid state device has been widely studied as portable and wearable device applications such as display, sensor and curved circuits. A zero-bias operation without any external power consumption is a highly-demanding feature of semiconductor devices, including optical communication, environment monitoring and digital imaging applications. Moreover, the flexibility of device would give the degree of freedom of transparent electronics. Functional and transparent abrupt p/n junction device has been realized by combining of p-type NiO and n-type ZnO metal oxide semiconductors. The use of a plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film substrate spontaneously allows the flexible feature of the devices. The functional design of p-NiO/n-ZnO metal oxide device provides a high rectifying ratio of 189 to ensure the quality junction quality. This all transparent metal oxide device can be operated without external power supply. The flexible p-NiO/n-ZnO device exhibit substantial photodetection performances of quick response time of $68{\mu}s$. We may suggest an efficient design scheme of flexible and functional metal oxide-based transparent electronics.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2007

초고속 인터넷의 발달과 휴대용 임베디드시스템이 보편화된 유비쿼터스 환경 아래에서 의료영상처리 분야에도 언제 어디서든지 원하는 환자에 대한 정보를 검색하고 판독할 수 있는 시스템에 대한 연구 및 개발이 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 특히, scout 영상은 진단 목적 이외에 새로운 응용분야에서 필요로 하고 있다. 유비쿼터스 시스템 개발로 의료 영상 뷰어는 PACS 시스템 및 웹브라우저와 결합한 병원에서 활용되고 있다. 본 논문은 무선 환경에서 잠재력을 보여주고 있는 이동단말기 기반의 의료영상 뷰잉시스템을 구현하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.423-428
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• 2007

Programmable FIR filters are used in various signal processing tasks in medical ultrasound imaging, which are one of the major factors increasing hardware complexity. A widely used method to reduce the hardware complexity of a programmable FIR filter is to encode the filter coefficients in the canonic signed digit (CSD) format to minimize the number of nonzero digits (NZD) so that the multipliers for each filter coefficients can be replaced with fixed shifters and programmable multiplexers (PM). In this paper, a new structure for programmable FIR filters with a improved frequency response and a reduced hardware complexity compared to the conventional shift-and-add architecture using PM is proposed for implementing a very small portable ultrasound scanner. The CSD codes are optimized such that there exists at least one common nonzero digit between neighboring coefficients. Such common digits are then implemented with the same shifters. For comparison, synthesisable VHDL models for programmable FIR filters are developed based on the proposed and the conventional architectures. When these filters have the same hardware complexity, pass-band ana stop-band ripples of the proposed filter are lower than those of the conventional filter by about $0.01{\sim}0.19dB$ and by about $5{\sim}10dB$, respectively. For the same filter performance, the hardware complexity of the proposed architecture is reduced by more than 20% compare to the conventional SaA architecture.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.217-223
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• 2022

본 연구는 엑스선 흉부촬영에서 격자를 이용하여 촬영법과 Air Gap Technique을 이용한 촬영법에서 얻은 영상을 평가하기 위하여 대학병원 영상의학과에서 10년 이상 근무한 방사선사 선생님 5인에게 주관적 평가 ROC와 객관적 평가 SNR를 시행하였다. 분석한 결과는 Cronbach Alpha 값이 0.714로 유의하게 높았다. Air Gap Technique 촬영법에서 팬톰과 상수용체 간격을 20 cm 띄우고 관전압 100 kVp, 관전류와 촬영시간 8 mAs로 설정하고 촬영한 영상을 ROC 평가에서 18점, SNR 평가에서 6.149로 가장 높은 점수를 얻었다. 또한 격자를 이용하여 촬영법에서는 팬톰과 상수용체 간격을 15 cm 띄우고 관전압 110 kVp, 관전류와 촬영시간을 8 mAs에서 촬영 시 ROC 평가점수가 19점과 객관적평가인 신호대잡음비(SNR)가 6,622으로 가장 높은 점수를 받았다. 이에 격자를 이용하여 나타나는 격자의 cut-off 현상으로 인하여 재촬영뿐만 아니라 판독지연, 환자의 피폭선량 증가, 기계적 수명단축 등의 단점을 벗어나는 Air Gap Technique 촬영법을 활용한다면, 중환자실 및 응급환자를 위한 이동형 엑스선 촬영장비를 사용할 경우를 포함하여 흉부 촬영 시에 많은 도움이 되리라 사료된다.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.155-161
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• 2016

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the reliability and validity of a personal computer-based muscle viewer (PC-BMW) compared with that of a portable ultrasound (P-US) for measuring upper trapezius (UT) and transversus abdominis (TrA) muscle thickness at rest and during contraction. Design: Observational inter-rater reliability study. Methods: Fifty-five healthy participants (25 men, 30 women) participated in this study. PC-BMW and P-US were randomly measured at the UT and TrA muscles. Two examiners randomly obtained the images of all participants in 3 test sessions lasting 2 days. Intra-class correlation coefficients (ICCs), standard error of measurement, contraction ratio, and correlation were used to estimate reliability and validity. Pearson's correlation coefficients were used to analyze the relationship between muscle thickness measures taken from PC-BMW and P-US. Results: The intra-rater reliability ICCs of UT and TrA muscle thickness for the PC-BMW were >0.995, indicating excellent reliability. Inter-rater reliability ICCs for the PC-BMW ranged from 0.963 to 0.987. The P-US also exhibited high reliability. A high correlation was found between the measurements of the two muscles in PC-BMW and P-US (p<0.01). Conclusions: PC-BMW provides clear and excellent images, is pocket-sized and less expensive than a conventional ultrasound imaging system. PC-BMW can be utilized variously and has the advantage of rehabilitative ultrasound imaging. More research is needed to evaluate the utility of PC-BMW for rehabilitation.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.256-261
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• 2011

최근 경부고속철도 자갈도상 구간의 일부에서 침하가 발생되고 이로 인하여 열차의 안전 및 운행속도와 승차감 저하라는 문제가 발생하였다. 따라서 이 문제를 해결하고 KTX 열차 운행을 정상화하기 위한 긴급대책이 요구된 적이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 현장의 요구에 대처하기 위해 철도노반 단층영상화 기법을 도입하게 되었다. 철도노반 단층영상화 기법은 철도노반의 지반강성을 단층영상의 형태로 가시화함으로써, 잠재적으로 과도한 침하를 유발할 수 있는 철도노반의 연약부위를 찾는데 있어서 현장기술자의 신속한 판단을 가능하게 하는 기법이다. 제안된 기법의 타당성과 적용성을 평가하기 위하여 실제 자갈도상 철도노반과 신설 철도노반 등 두 현장에 적용하여 보았고, SASW, PBT, DCP, FWD 시험결과와 비교하였다.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.133-138
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• 2010

Background and Objectives : High-speed imaging can be useful in studies of linguistic and artistic singing styles, and laryngeal examination of patients with voice disorders, particularly in irregular vocal fold vibrations. In this study, we introduce new laryngeal imaging systems which are commercially available high speed cameras connected with a laryngoscope. Materials and Method : The laryngeal images were captured from three different types of cameras. First, the adapter was made to connect with laryngoscope and Casio EX-F1 to capture the images using $2{\times}150$ Watt Halogen light source (EndoSTROB) at speeds of 1,200 tps (frame per second)($336{\times}96$). Second, Phantom Miro ex4 was used to capture the digital laryngeal images using Xenon Nova light source 175 Watt (STORZ) at speeds of 1,920 fps ($512{\times}384$). Finally, laryngeal images were captured using MotionXtra N-4 with 250 Watt halogen lamp (Olympus CLH-250) light source at speeds of 2,000tps ($384{\times}400$) by connecting with laryngoscope. All images were transformed into the Kymograph using KIPS (Kay's image processing Software) of Kay Pentex Inc. Results: Casio EX-F1 was too small to adjust the focus and screen size was diminished once the images were captured despite of high resolution images. High quality of color images could be obtained with Phantom Miro ex4 whereas good black and white images from Motion Xtra N-4 Despite of some limitations of illumination problems, limited recording time capacity, and time consuming procedures in Phantom Miro ex4 and Motion Xtra N-4, those portable devices provided high resolution images. Conclusion : All those high speed cameras could capture the laryngeal images by connecting with laryngoscope. High resolution images were able to be captured at the fixed position under the good lightness. Accordingly, these techniques could be applicable to observe the vocal fold vibration properties in the clinical practice.