• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1312-1314
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 조영증강 의료 초음파 영상에서 효과적인 병변 탐색을 위한 방법론을 고찰한다. 병변 영상을 포함하는 ROI 추출을 위하여 조영효과의 전이 형태에 대한 단계 분할 기법과 동적 프로젝션 데이터의 분석 기법을 제안한다. 프레임간 유사도 척도의 분석을 통하여 비정상 프레임을 제거한 후 조영제의 도달시간(AT: Arrival Time)과 확산구간을 추출하여 탐색 대상 데이터의 양을 감소시킨다. 대상구간에서 초음파 영상의 수평방향 및 수직방향 프로젝션 데이터에 대한 동적 특성을 분석함으로써 후보영역을 추출하며 마이크로 버블의 추출, 조영효과의 증가속도 및 비율 등의 요소를 고려하여 ROI 를 선별하고 그 형태를 재조정한다. 부수적으로, 대상영역에서의 각 픽셀정보에 대하여 명도변화곡선(TIC) 특성분석을 통하여 영상을 재구성하고 병변영상의 형태와 윤곽선을 추출하게 된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.360-362
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 X-ray 영상에서 척추 영역을 추출 및 분석하여 척추만곡도를 자동으로 측정하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 X-ray 영상에서 어깨뼈와 골반뼈 등과 같이 필요 없는 영역을 제거한 ROI(Region of Interest) 영역을 추출하고, 추출된 ROI 영역에서 척추 에지를 검출하기 위해 가우시안-라플라시안(Laplacian of Gaussian) 필터를 적용하여 척추 에지를 검출한다. 추출된 척추 영역을 척추의 Apex를 기준으로 Above Apex와 Below Apex 영역으로 구분하고 허프 변환(Hough Transform) 기법을 적용하여 두 영역에 대한 ($r,{\theta}$) 허프 공간을 구한다. ($r,{\theta}$) 허프 공간에서 척추만곡도 측정에 필요한 수평 직선만을 검출하기 위하여 수직 직선을 나타내는 교점들의 영역을 제거하여 척추만곡도 측정에 필요한 영역을 추출한다. 제안된 척추 추출 방법을 다양한 X-ray 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 전문의가 척추만곡도를 효과적으로 측정하고 분석할 수 있는 척추 영역이 추출된 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.73-80
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a medical image processing method for detection of periodontal disease. The proposed method is the method of an automatic image alignment and detection of minute changes, to overcome defects in the conventional subtraction radiography by digital image processing technique, that is necessary for getting subtraction image and ROI(Region of Interest) focused on a selection method using the structured features in target images. And the method services accuracy, consistency and objective information or data to results. In result, easily and visually we can identify minute differences in the affected parts whether they have problems or not, and using application system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.239-241
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 클러스터 개수를 동적으로 생성하는 개선된 FCM을 적용하여 초음파 영상에서 충수염을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 초음파 영상에서 ROI 영역을 추출한 후, Max-Min 기반 이진화 기법을 적용한다. 이진화된 영상에서 근막 영역의 크기가 ROI 영역의 1/3이상을 차지한다는 정보를 이용하여 Labelling 기법을 적용하여 근막 영역을 추출한다. 근막의 최하단 좌표를 이용하여 근막의 하단 영역을 추출한 후, 근막의 하단 영역에서 객체들의 선명도를 높이기 위해 Blurring 기법과 Sharpening 기법을 적용한다. 충수염의 후보 영역을 추출하기 위해 FCM 알고리즘을 개선하여 양자화를 수행한다. 개선된 FCM 알고리즘으로 양자화를 수행하여 충수염의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 충수염의 후보 영역에서 8방향 윤곽선 추적 기법을 적용하여 객체들을 추출한다. 추출된 객체들 중에서 낮은 명암도를 가지고 초음파 전체 영상 크기의 1/3이하 되는 객체를 충수염으로 추출한다. 초음파 영상을 대상으로 제안된 방법을 적용하여 실험한 결과, 기존의 방법보다 충수염 영역의 추출률이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.41-50
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• 2001

The quantification analysis of renal scintigraphy is strongly affected by the location, shape and size of region of interest(ROI). When ROIs are drawn manually, these ROIs are not reproducible due to the operators' subjective point of view, and may lead to inconsistent results even if the same data were analyzed. In this study, the effect of the ROI variation on the analysis of renal scintigraphy when the ROIs are drawn manually was investigated, and in order to obtain more consistent results, methods for automated ROI definition were developed and the results from the application of the developed methods were analyzed. Relative renal function, glomerular filtration rate and mean transit time were selected as clinical parameters for the analysis of the effect of ROI and the analysis tools were designed with the programming language of IDL5.2. To obtain renal scintigraphy, $^{99m}$Tc-DTPA was injected to the 11 adults of normal condition and to study the inter-operator variability, 9 researchers executed the analyses. The calculation of threshold using the gradient value of pixels and border tracing technique were used to define renal ROI and then the background ROI and aorta ROI were defined automatically considering anatomical information and pixel value. The automatic methods to define renal ROI were classified to 4 groups according to the exclusion of operator's subjectiveness. These automatic methods reduced the inter-operator variability remarkably in comparison with manual method and proved the effective tool to obtain reasonable and consistent results in analyzing the renal scintigraphy quantitatively.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.129-136
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a new real-time lane detection method that is efficient for road environment. Existing methods have a problem of low reliability under environmental changes. In order to overcome this problem, we emphasize the lane candidate area by using gray level division. And Extracts a straight line component near the lane by using the Hough transform, and generates an ROI for each straight line based on the extracted coordinates. And integrates the generated ROI images. Then, the lane is determined by dividing the object using the dual queue in the ROI image. The proposed method is able to detect lanes even in the environmental change unlike the conventional method. And It is possible to obtain an advantage that the area corresponding to the background such as sky, mountain, etc. is efficiently removed and high reliability is obtained.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.76-82
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• 2012

As the portable camcorder becomes popular, various video stabilization algorithms for de-shaking of camera motion have been developed. In the past, most video stabilization algorithms were based on 2-dimensional camera motion, but recent algorithms show much better performance by considering 3-dimensional camera motion. Among the previous video stabilization algorithms, 3D video stabilization algorithm using content-preserving warps is known as the state-of-the art owing to its superior performance. But, the major demerit of the algorithm is its high computational complexity. So, we present a computationally light full-frame warping algorithm based on ROI (region-of-interest) while providing comparable visual quality to the state-of-the art in terms of ROI. First, a proper ROI with a target depth is chosen for each frame, and full-frame warping based on the selected ROI is applied.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.27-34
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• 2010

This paper proposes an efficient method for verifying palmprint which is captured at the natural interface without any physical restriction. The location and orientation of the region of interest (ROI) in palm images are variously appeared due to the translation and rotation of hand. Therefore, it is necessary to extract the ROI stably for palmprint recognition. This paper presents a method that can extract the ROI, which is based on the reference points that are located at the center of the crotch segments between index finger and middle finger and between ring finger and little finger. It also proposes a palmprint recognition method using the histogram of local binary patterns (LBP). Experiments for evaluating the performance of the proposed method were performed on 1,597 palmprint images acquired from 100 different persons. The experimental results showed that ROI was correctly extracted at the rate of 99.5% and the equal error rate (EER) and the decidability index d' indicating the performance of palmprint verification were 0.136 and 3.539, respectively. These results demonstrate that the proposed method is robust to the variations of the translation and rotation of hand.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.98-105
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose the method and system which determines the condition for safe and unsafe lane changing. To determine the condition, first, the system sets up the Region of Interest(ROI) on the neighboring lane. Second, a dangerous vehicle is extracted during the line changing. Third, the condition is determined to wm or not by calculating the moving direction, relative distance md relative velocity. To set up the ROI, the only one side lane is detected and the interested region is expanded. Using the coordinate transformation method, the accuracy of the ROI raised. To correctly extract the vehicle on the neighboring lane, the Adaptive Background Update method and Image Segmentation method which uses the feature of the travelling road are used. The object which is extracted by the dangerous vehicle is calculated the relative distance, the relative velocity and the moving average. And then in order to ring, the direction of the vehicle and the condition for safe and unsafe is determined. As minimizes the interested region and uses the feature of the travelling road, the computational quantity is reduced and the accuracy is raised and a stable result on a travelling road images which demands a high speed calculation is showed.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.93-101
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• 2009

This paper suggests a new algorithm automatically searching for Region-of-Interest(ROI) with high speed, using the edge information of high frequency subband transformed with wavelet. The proposed method executes a searching algorithm of 4-direction object boundary by the unit of block using the edge information, and detects ROIs. The whole image is splitted by $64{\times}64$ or $32{\times}32$ sized blocks and the blocks can be ROI block or background block according to taking the edges or not. The 4-directions searche the image from the outside to the center and the algorithm uses a feature that the low-DOF image has some edges as one goes to center. After searching all the edges, the method regards the inner blocks of the edges as ROI, and makes the ROI masks and sends them to server. This is one of the dynamic ROI method. The existing methods have had some problems of complicated filtering and region merge, but this method improved considerably the problems. Also, it was possible to apply to an application requiring real-time processing caused by the process of the unit of block.