• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.478-481
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 기존의 삼각형 타입의 퍼지 스트레칭을 개선한 사다리꼴 형태의 퍼지 스트레칭 기법과 FCM 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하여 결절종을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 결절종 추출방법은 결절종 영역과 그 외의 영역 간의 명암 대비를 강조하기 위해 사다리꼴 형태의 퍼지 스트레칭 기법을 적용한 후에 Monotone Cubic Spline 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에 대해 FCM 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하고 양자화된 결과를 이용하여 ROI 영역을 이진화한다. 결절종이 타원 형태와 명암도가 낮은 값을 가진다는 형태학적 특징을 이용하기 위해서 이진화 ROI 영역에 팽창 기법을 적용하여 결절종의 후보 영역을 추출하고 8방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 잡음 영역이 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 결절종 후보 영역에서 최종 결절종 영역을 추출하기 위해 라벨링 기법을 적용한다. 제안된 결절종 추출 방법의 성능을 분석하기 위해서 20명의 환자를 대상으로 20장을 실험한 결과, 기존의 방법보다 TPR(Ture Positive Rate)이 높게 나타나는 것을 확인하였다.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2020

Chalk River Unidentified Deposits (CRUDs) were collected from the Korean pressurized water reactor (PWR) plant (A, B, and C) where the axial offset anomaly (AOA) occurred. AOA, also known as a CRUD-induced power shift, is one of the key issues in maintaining stable PWR plant operations. CRUDs were sampled from spent nuclear fuel rods and analyzed using an electron probe micro-analyzer (EPMA). This paper describes the characteristics of boron-deposits from the CRUDs sampled from twice-burnt assemblies from the Korean PWR. The primary coolant of a PWR contains boron and lithium. It is known that boron deposition occurs in a thick CRUD layer under substantial sub-cooled nucleate boiling (SNB). The results of this study are summarized as follows. Boron was not found at the locations where the existence was confirmed in simulated CRUDs, in other words, the cladding and CRUD boundaries. Nevertheless, we clearly observed the presence of boron and confirmed that boron existed as a lump in crystalline form. In addition, the study confirmed that CRUD existed in a crystal form with a unique size of about 10 ㎛.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.68-70
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 결절종을 추출하는 과정에서 비선형 퍼지 스트레칭 기법과 FCM 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하여 결절종을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 결절종 추출 방법은 비선형 형태의 퍼지 스트레칭 기법을 적용하여 명암 대비를 강조한 ROI 영역에 Monotone Cubic Spline기법과 FCM 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하여 Monotone Cubic Spline기법이 적용된 상단 부분을 분리한다. 분리된 상단 영역들에서 결절종이 명암도가 낮고 타원 형태를 가진다는 형태학적 특징을 이용하기 위해서 침식 기법을 적용하여 결절종의 후보 영역을 추출하고 8 방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 잡음 영역을 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 결절종 후보 영역에서 최종 결절종 영역을 추출하기 위해 라벨링 기법을 적용한다. 제안된 결절종 추출 방법의 성능을 분석하기 위해서 필립스 초음파 장비를 이용하여 20명 환자에서 획득한 20장의 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과 기존의 방법보다 TPR(Ture Positive Rate)이 높게 나타나는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.118-120
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• 2000

Currently, x-ray is mostly used for the diagnosis of dental cavity and osteoporosis. The osteoporosis is broadly defined as a decrease in the amount of bone mass per unit volume of the bone. Clinically the manifestation of low bone mass presents a clinical problem to the general population as an increase in fracture risk and especially in aging population[1]. Although the amount of the irradiated x-ray to the human body for the clinical diagnosis is relatively small, the exposition of the x-ray to the human body should be minimized as much as possible, since the x-ray is an ionizing radiation. To investigate other possible systems replacing X-ray, ultrasonic imaging and MRI(Magneto-Resonance-Imaging) systems were studied. Unfortunately, an effective and safe diagnosis tool for detecting the dental cavity and the osteoporosis is currently lacking. (omitted)

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.72-78
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• 2013

Compacted graphite iron 340 was carried out the heat treatment from 873 to 1,273 K. Compacted graphite iron 340 was evaluated relationship between the sound velocity, the attenuation coefficient and the tensile strength. The obtained results are as following. The signal strength of C scan images were weak according to increasing of heat treatment temperature and time. The amplitude of A scan and B scan was also low. This can be cause that the graphite was grown into the type of vermicular, and the many of grain boundary with ultrasound scattering were increase. The sound velocity was depend upon the heat treatment temperature and time, the attenuation coefficient had nothing to do with the temperature and time. The higher the heat treatment temperature, the tensile strength and the sound velocity were decreased. However, the tensile strength was proportional to the sound velocity. The higher tensile strength, the faster the sound velocity.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1290-1303
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• 2005

In this research, a remote control system has been developed and implemented, which combines autonomous obstacle avoidance in real-time with force-reflective tele-operation. A tele-operated mobile robot is controlled by a local two-degrees-of-freedom force-reflective joystick that a human operator holds while he is monitoring the screen. In the system, the force-reflective joystick transforms the relation between a mobile robot and the environment to the operator as a virtual force which is generated in the form of a new collision vector and reflected to the operator. This reflected force makes the tele-operation of a mobile robot safe from collision in an uncertain and obstacle-cluttered remote environment. A mobile robot controlled by a local operator usually takes pictures of remote environments and sends the images back to the operator over the Internet. Because of limitations of communication bandwidth and the narrow view-angles of the camera, the operator cannot observe shadow regions and curved spaces frequently. To overcome this problem, a new form of virtual force is generated along the collision vector according to both distance and approaching velocity between an obstacle and the mobile robot, which is obtained from ultrasonic sensors. This virtual force is transferred back to the two-degrees-of-freedom master joystick over the Internet to enable a human operator to feel the geometrical relation between the mobile robot and the obstacle. It is demonstrated by experiments that this haptic reflection improves the performance of a tele-operated mobile robot significantly.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.39-45
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• 2013

Many researchers have studied the effectiveness of ultrasound in chemical and environmental engineering fields including material synthesis, pollutant removal, cleaning, extraction, and disinfection. Acoustic cavitation induced by ultrasound irradiation in aqueous phase can cause various sonophysical and sonochemical reactions without any chemicals. However most of the previous studies focused only on the relationships between ultrasonic conditions and the results of sonochemical reactions in lab-scale sonoreactors. As a results of this, only a few studies have been devoted to design and optimization of industrial scale sonoreactors. In this study, the effect of the distance between two opposite transducer modules on sonochemical reactions was investigated in single and dual irradiation systems (334 kHz) for four distances including 50, 100, 150, and 200 mm using KI dosimetry. It was found that the dual irradiation systems provided higher performance in terms of the zeroth reaction coefficient and the cavitation yield compared to the single irradiation systems. The sonochemiluminescence (SCL) images for the visualization of the cavitation field showed that cavitation active zone was larger and sonochemical reaction intensity was much higher in the dual irradiation system than in the single irradiation system.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.14A no.2
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• pp.77-84
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• 2007

The intima media thickness(IMT) of the carotid artery from B mode ultrasound images has recently been proposed as the most useful index of individual atherosclerosis and can be used to predict major cardiovascular events. Ultrasonic measurements of the IMT are conventionally obtained by manually tracing interfaces between tissue layers. The drawbacks of this method are the inter and intra observer variability and its inefficiency. In this paper, we present a multiresolution snake method combined with the dynamic programming, which overcomes the various noises and sensitivity to initialization of conventional snake. First, an image pyramid is constructed using the Gaussian pyramid that maintains global edge information with smoothing in the images, and then the boundaries are automatically detected in the lowest resolution level by minimizing a cost function based on dynamic programming. The cost function includes cost terms which are representing image features and geometrical continuity of the vessel interfaces. Since the detected boundaries are selected as initial contour of the snake for the next level, this automated approach solves the problem of the initialization. Moreover, the proposed snake improves the problem of converging th the local minima by defining the external energy based on multiple image features. In this paper, our method has been validated by computing the correlation between manual and automatic measurements. This automated detection method has obtained more accurate and reproducible results than conventional edge detection by considering multiple image features.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.3
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• pp.164-173
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• 2014

In underwater robotics, vision would be a key element for recognition in underwater environments. However, due to turbidity an underwater optical camera is rarely available. An underwater imaging sonar, as an alternative, delivers low quality sonar images which are not stable and accurate enough to find out natural objects by image processing. For this, artificial landmarks based on the characteristics of ultrasonic waves and their recognition method by a shape matrix transformation were proposed and were proven in Part 1. But, this is not working properly in undulating and dynamically noisy sea-bottom. To solve this, we propose a framework providing a selection phase of likelihood candidates, a selection phase for final candidates, recognition phase and tracking phase in sequence images, where a particle filter based selection mechanism to eliminate fake candidates and a mean shift based tracking algorithm are also proposed. All 4 steps are running in parallel and real-time processing. The proposed framework is flexible to add and to modify internal algorithms. A pool test and sea trial are carried out to prove the performance, and detail analysis of experimental results are done. Information is obtained from tracking phase such as relative distance, bearing will be expected to be used for control and navigation of underwater robots.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.497-503
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• 2004

Numerical simulation of blood flow has been conducted based on real vessel geometries generated front DICOM medical images of abdominal and iliac bifurcated arteries of a healthy man. A program was developed to read cross sectional images of the three dimensional arteries and smoothly extract boundary coordinates of vessels. Commercial programs were employed for mesh generation and flow simulation. Pressures, velocities, and flow distributions were found to lie within normal physiological ranges. Peak velocity measured in the iliac artery by ultrasound was 20% smaller than that obtained by simulation. The trend of velocity variation in a cardiac cycle was fairly similar between the simulation and the ultrasonic measurements. Simulation based on real vessel geometry of individual patient provides information on pressure, velocity, and its distribution in the diseased arteries or arteries to be surgically treated. The results of simulation may help surgeons to better understand hemodynamic status and surgical need of the patient by revealing variation of the hemodynamic parameters. Futhermore, they may serve as basic data for surgical treatment of arteries. This research is expected to develop to a program in the future that early diagnose atherosclerosis by showing distribution of a hemodynamic index closely related to atherosclerosis in arteries.