• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.558-568
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• 2019

Objective: To evaluate whether computed tomography (CT) reconstruction algorithms affect the CT texture features of the liver parenchyma. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study comprised 58 patients (normal liver, n = 34; chronic liver disease [CLD], n = 24) who underwent liver CT scans using a single CT scanner. All CT images were reconstructed using filtered back projection (FBP), hybrid iterative reconstruction (IR) (iDOSE⁴), and model-based IR (IMR). On arterial phase (AP) and portal venous phase (PVP) CT imaging, quantitative texture analysis of the liver parenchyma using a single-slice region of interest was performed at the level of the hepatic hilum using a filtration-histogram statistic-based method with different filter values. Texture features were compared among the three reconstruction methods and between normal livers and those from CLD patients. Additionally, we evaluated the inter- and intra-observer reliability of the CT texture analysis by calculating intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). Results: IR techniques affect various CT texture features of the liver parenchyma. In particular, model-based IR frequently showed significant differences compared to FBP or hybrid IR on both AP and PVP CT imaging. Significant variation in entropy was observed between the three reconstruction algorithms on PVP imaging (p < 0.05). Comparison between normal livers and those from CLD patients revealed that AP images depend more strongly on the reconstruction method used than PVP images. For both inter- and intra-observer reliability, ICCs were acceptable (> 0.75) for CT imaging without filtration. Conclusion: CT texture features of the liver parenchyma evaluated using the filtration-histogram method were significantly affected by the CT reconstruction algorithm used.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.389-398
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• 2012

Texture is an important visual feature for image analysis. Many approaches have been proposed to model and analyze texture features. Although these approaches significantly contribute to various image-based applications, most of these methods are sensitive to the changes in the scale and orientation of the texture pattern. Because textures vary in scale and orientations frequently, this easily leads to pattern mismatching if the features are compared to each other without considering the scale and/or orientation of textures. This paper suggests an Orientation Matching Scheme (OMS) to ease the problem of mismatching rotated patterns. In OMS, a pair of texture features will be compared to each other at various orientations to identify the best matched direction for comparison. A database including rotated texture images was generated for experiments. A synthetic retrieving experiment was conducted on the generated database to examine the performance of the proposed scheme. We also applied OMS to the similarity computation in a K-means clustering algorithm. The purpose of using K-means is to examine the scheme exhaustively in unpromising conditions, where initialized seeds are randomly selected and algorithms work heuristically. Results from both types of experiments show that the proposed OMS can help improve the performance when dealing with rotated patterns.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.436-442
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• 2017

A novel method of Skin lesion segmentation based on the combination of Texture and Neural Network is proposed in this paper. This paper combines the textures of different pixels in the skin images in order to increase the performance of lesion segmentation. For segmenting skin lesions, a two-step process is done. First, automatic border detection is performed to separate the lesion from the background skin. This begins by identifying the features that represent the lesion border clearly by the process of Texture analysis. In the second step, the obtained features are given as input towards the Recurrent Echo state neural networks in order to obtain the segmented skin lesion region. The proposed algorithm is trained and tested for 862 skin lesion images in order to evaluate the accuracy of segmentation. Overall accuracy of the proposed method is compared with existing algorithms. An average accuracy of 98.8% for segmenting skin lesion images has been obtained.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.2109-2123
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• 2017

This paper presents a super-resolution reconstruction method based on sparse representation for two-dimensional bar code images. Considering the features of two-dimensional bar code images, Kirsch and LBP (local binary pattern) operators are used to extract the edge gradient and texture features. Feature extraction is constituted based on these two features and additional two second-order derivatives. By joint dictionary learning of the low-resolution and high-resolution image patch pairs, the sparse representation of corresponding patches is the same. In addition, the global constraint is exerted on the initial estimation of high-resolution image which makes the reconstructed result closer to the real one. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm for two-dimensional bar code images by comparing with other reconstruction algorithms.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.22-30
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• 2001

본 논문은 유방질환 중에서 유관(duct )에 발생하는 유방종양을 Benign, DCIS(ductal carcinoma in situ) NOS (invasive ductal carcinoma)로 분류하기 위해 3가지 분류기 (classifier) 를 생성한 후, 비교 분석하였다. 분류기 생성에서 가장 중요한 단계인 특징 추출 단계에서 세포핵의 기하학적 특징을 형태학적 특징을 추출하여 분류기를 생성하고 염색질 패턴의 내부적 변화를 나타내는 질감 특징을 추출하여 2가지 배율(100/400배)에서 2개의 분류기를 생성하였다. 400배 배율의 유방질환 영상에서 세포핵을 추출하여 핵의 형태학적 특징값인 핵의 면적, 둘레. 가로, 세로(장. 단축) 의 길이, 원형성의 비율을 구한 후 이 특징값들을 조합하여 판별분석에 의해 분류기를 생생하고, 분류 정확도를 검증하였다. 100배 배율과 400배의 배율의 유방질환 영상에서 1, 2, 3, 4 단계(level)의 wavelet 변환를 적용한 후, 분할된 서브밴드에서 GLCM(Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix)을 이용하여 질감 특징(entropy Energy, Contrast, Homogeneity)를 추출하고, 이 특징값들을 조합하여 판변 분석에 의해 분류기를 생성한 후 분류 정확도를 검증하였다. 이 세 분류기를 비교 분석 하였을때 현민경 100배 배율의 영상을 3단계 wavelet 변환을 적용하고 질감 특징을 추출하여 생성한 분류기가 다른 두 분류기보다 유방 질환 Benign, DCIS; NOS를 분류하는데 더 나은 결과를 보였다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2015

In this paper, a method of color image segmentation based on DBSCAN(Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) using compactness of superpixels and texture information is presented. The DBSCAN algorithm can generate clusters in large data sets by looking at the local density of data samples, using only two input parameters which called minimum number of data and distance of neighborhood data. Superpixel algorithms group pixels into perceptually meaningful atomic regions, which can be used to replace the rigid structure of the pixel grid. Each superpixel is consist of pixels with similar features such as luminance, color, textures etc. Superpixels are more efficient than pixels in case of large scale image processing. In this paper, superpixels are generated by SLIC(simple linear iterative clustering) as known popular. Superpixel characteristics are described by compactness, uniformity, boundary precision and recall. The compactness is important features to depict superpixel characteristics. Each superpixel is represented by Lab color spaces, compactness and texture information. DBSCAN clustering method applied to these feature spaces to segment a color image. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, computer simulation is carried out to several outdoor images. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can provide good segmentation results on various images.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.5197-5218
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• 2019

Large-scale retrieval algorithm is problem for visual analyses applications, along its research track. In this paper, we propose a high-efficiency region division-based image retrieve approaches, which fuse low-level local color histogram feature and texture feature. A novel image region division is proposed to roughly mimic the location distribution of image color and deal with the color histogram failing to describe spatial information. Furthermore, for optimizing our region division retrieval method, an image descriptor combining local color histogram and Gabor texture features with reduced feature dimensions are developed. Moreover, we propose an extended Canberra distance method for images similarity measure to increase the fault-tolerant ability of the whole large-scale image retrieval. Extensive experimental results on several benchmark image retrieval databases validate the superiority of the proposed approaches over many recently proposed color-histogram-based and texture-feature-based algorithms.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.185-193
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• 2011

결핵은 환자를 미리 발견하여 치료함으로서, 질병의 전파를 차단하여 새로운 감염자가 발생을 최소화하고, 결핵을 조기에 예방 및 진단하는 것이 중요하다. 그러므로 현재 의학에서는 디지털 의료영상을 활용하여 질병진단의 보조 수단으로서 컴퓨터자동진단시스템이 응용되고 있다. 본 연구에서 주성분 분석(PCA)과 질감분석(Texture features)의 알고리즘을 이용하여 결핵의 질병을 자동으로 판별 및 인식하였으며, 그 기준에 따라 디지털 흉부 방사선영상에서 컴퓨터자동진단의 실용화를 위한 선행연구를 하였다. 실험결과는 주성분분석을 이용한 병변 인식률은 전문의의 질병에 대한 판독률보다 낮게 나타났지만, 질감분석의 인식률은 전문의 판독결과보다 높은 병변 인식률을 나타내었다. 그러므로 제안하는 알고리즘을 활용한 컴퓨터자동진단시스템은 임상의사에게 부가적인 보조 수단으로서 예비판독 단계의 정보를 제공하여 질병의 조기진단 및 예방이 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.227-235
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• 2012

유방영상은 유방 전체의 재현 가능한 영상을 만들며, 만져지지 않는 조기 유방암의 가장 중요한 소견인 미세석회화와 종괴를 발견할 수 있어 유방 질환의 일차적인 선별검사로 이용되고 있다. 유방 병변의 미세석회화는 조기 유방암의 진단에 있어서 중요한 병변으로 보고되고 있지만 유방초음파 검사에서 검출이 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 유방초음파 영상에서 미세석회화 검출을 위해 6가지의 질감분석 파라미터를 이용하였으며, 정상 초음파영상과 미세석회화가 보이는 초음파 영상 간의 병변인식률을 알아보았다. 실험결과로는 유방촬영영상과 유방 초음파영상에서 병변을 구별하는 컴퓨터자동진단 인식률은 70~98%로 상당히 높은 결과를 나타내었다. ROC 분석에서도 평균대조도와 엔트로피 파라미터의 특이도는 다소 낮게 나타났으나, 나머지 4개 파라미터의 민감도와 특이도는 90% 이상을 나타내어 초음파영상에서 미세석회화 검출의 가능성을 보였다. 향후 6가지 질감분석 알고리즘들 외에 추가적인 파라미터 알고리즘의 연구가 계속 진행되어 컴퓨터자동진단의 실용화기반을 마련한다면 전문의 진단의 예비단계로서 더욱 중요한 의미를 가질 것이며, 유방암의 조기진단에 매우 유용할 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.220-223
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• 2004

Automatic image registration is an essential element of remote sensing because remote sensing system generates enormous amount of data, which are multiple observations of the same features at different times and by different sensor. The general process of automatic image registration includes three steps: 1) The extraction of features to be used in the matching process, 2) the feature matching strategy and accurate matching process, 3) the resampling of the data based on the correspondence computed from matched feature. For step 2) and 3), we have developed an algorithms for automated registration of satellite images with RANSAC(Random Sample Consensus) in success. However, for step 1), There still remains human operation to generate GCP Chips, which is time consuming, laborious and expensive process. The main idea of this research is that we are able to automatically generate GCP chips with comer detection algorithms without GPS survey and human interventions if we have systematic corrected satellite image within adaptable positional accuracy. In this research, we use SUSAN(Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus) algorithm in order to detect the comer. SUSAN algorithm is known as the best robust algorithms for comer detection in the field of compute vision. However, there are so many comers in high-resolution images so that we need to reduce the comer points from SUSAN algorithms to overcome redundancy. In experiment, we automatically generate GCP chips from IKONOS images with geo level using SUSAN algorithms. Then we extract reference coordinate from IKONOS images and DEM data and filter the comer points using texture analysis. At last, we apply automatically collected GCP chips by proposed method and the GCP by operator to in-house automatic precision correction algorithms. The compared result will be presented to show the GCP quality.