• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1995년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automation Control Conference, 10th (KACC); Seoul, Korea; 23-25 Oct. 1995
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• pp.248-251
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• 1995

Nowadays, the internal images of a human body can be easily provided by the ultrasound imaging, the X-ray CT, or the MRI device, among which the ultrasound imaging device has good resolution for soft tissues of a human body compared with the other devices. Furthermore, the use of ultrasound imaging devices will increase in future especially in the obstetrics, territory, since it does not give harm to the human body. Although several techniques have been investigated until now in order to extract organs from ultrasound images, very few of them have achieved satisfactory results because of low contrast and high noise nature of images. This paper proposes a technique for automatic extraction of the gall bladder area from ultrasound images. The proposed technique first extracts a small reliable area of a gall bladder from an ultrasound image employing smoothing, binarization, expanding and shrinking, and labeling, and then expands the area referring to the binarized version of the original image. The technique is examined its performance by real ultrasound images of a gall bladder and satisfactory results are obtained. Some problems to be solved are discussed finally.

• Clinical Pain
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2021

Musculoskeletal ultrasound has evolved as the essential tool to diagnose and guide intervention procedures in people with neuromusculoskeletal conditions. Image optimization and understanding device operations are core components for ultrasound guided intervention procedure training. All ultrasound machines share the common operative features and there are various buttons for the features in the device control panel. Ultrasound "knobology" refers to the thorough understanding of imaging optimization. This review addressed basic information for the transducers, depth setting, gain and focus control, different modes focusing on brightness and doppler modes.

• 대한한의진단학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2016

Ultrasonic imaging is the most widely modality among modern imaging device for medical diagnosis. Nevertheless, medical ultrasound images suffer from speckle noise and low contrast. In this paper, we propose probabilistic edge map for ultrasound image edge enhancement using automatic alien algorithm. The proposed method used applied speckle reduced ultrasound imaging for edge improvement using sequentially acquired ultrasound imaging. To evaluate the performance of method, the similarity between the reference and edge enhanced image was measured by quantity analysis. The experimental results show that the proposed method considerably improves the image quality with region edge enhancement.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.395-401
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• 2017

In this paper, we introduce a robot-assisted medical diagnostic system that enables remote ultrasound (US) imaging to be applied to the conventional telemedicine, which has been possible only with interviewing or a visual exam. In particular, a master-slave robot system is developed that ultrasonic diagnosis specialist can control the position and orientation of US probe in the remote place. The slave robot is designed to be compact, lightweight, and hand-held so that it can easily transfer to the remote healthcare center. Moreover, 6-degree-of-freedom (DOF) probe motion is possible by the robot design based on Stewart platform. The master device is also based on a similar structure of the slave robot. To connect master and slave system in the wide area network (WAN) environment, a hardware CODEC was developed. In this paper, we introduce the detail of each component and the results of the recent experiments conducted in the remote sites by the developed robotic ultrasound imaging system.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.521-537
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• 2000

초음파 영상은 의료진단을 위한 영상기기 중 가장 널리 쓰이고 있는 방법으로 전자공학에 있어서 DSP 및 VLSI 분야의 기술발전에 힘입어 보다 효율적이고 복잡한 기법들의 적용이 가능하여져 90년대에 이르러 시스템의 성능이 매우 빠르게 발달되었다. 본 논문은 의료진단용 초음파 영상장치에서 사용되는 주요 디지털 신호처리 기법과 시스템 구현 기술에 대하여 기술하였다. 구체적으로는 일반적인 초음파 영상장치의 구조 및 신호처리 기법을 소개하고, 90년대에 개발된 디지털 초음파 영상장치의 기술적인 내용을 그 기술 동향과 전망과 함께 다루었다. 특히 초음파 영상의 화질을 결정하는 가장 중요한 요소인 해상도를 증대하기 위한 모든 초음파 집속 기법을 표현할 수 있는 통합 합성 구경 모형을 제시하고, 이론적인 해석을 통하여 초음파 영상을 위한 어레이 신호처리 기법들을 구분하고 각 방법들에 대한 특성을 조사하였나. 본 논문에서 소개된 신호처리 기법들은 초음파를 이용한 비파괴 검사 분야에 유용하게 적용될 수 있는 것 들이다.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2018

For the measurement of biophysical properties related with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), various microfluidic devices were proposed. However, many devices were monitored by optical equipment. Ultrasound measurement to quantify the biophysical properties can provide new insights to understand the cardiovascular diseases. This study aims to check feasibility of microfluidic device for ultrasound image analysis based on 3D printer. To facilitate acoustic transmission, agarose solution is poured around 3D mold connected with holes of the acrylic box. By applying speckle image velocimetry(SIV) technique, flow information in the bifurcated channel was estimated. Considering that ultrasound signal amplitude is determined by red blood cell (RBC) aggregation, RBC aggregation in the bifurcated channel can be estimated through the analysis of ultrasound signal. As examples of microfluidic device which mimic the CVD model, velocity fields in microfluidic devices with stenosis and aneurysm were introduced.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.255-263
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• 2023

Clinical ultrasound (US) is a widely used imaging modality with various clinical applications. However, capturing a large field of view often requires specialized transducers which have limitations for specific clinical scenarios. Panoramic imaging offers an alternative approach by sequentially aligning image sections acquired from freehand sweeps using a standard transducer. To reconstruct a 3D volume from these 2D sections, an external device can be employed to track the transducer's motion accurately. However, the presence of optical or electrical interferences in a clinical setting often leads to incorrect measurements from such sensors. In this paper, we propose a deep learning (DL) framework that enables the prediction of scan trajectories using only US data, eliminating the need for an external tracking device. Our approach incorporates diverse data types, including correlation volume, optical flow, B-mode images, and rawer data (IQ data). We develop a DL network capable of effectively handling these data types and introduce an attention technique to emphasize crucial local areas for precise trajectory prediction. Through extensive experimentation, we demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method over other DL-based approaches in terms of long trajectory prediction performance. Our findings highlight the potential of employing DL techniques for trajectory estimation in clinical ultrasound, offering a promising alternative for panoramic imaging.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.1460-1471
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• 2024

2D and 3D ultrasonic imaging has so far not been demonstrated in pure molten lead in the open literature. In this study the development of such an ultrasonic device for imaging is outlined and results from testing at 380 ℃ in lead are presented. The main difficulties were found to be achieving then maintaining suitable wetting while ensuring suitable durability of the device, both due to the harsh nature of molten lead and the elevated temperatures. The successful detection and imaging (2D and 3D), of differently shaped targets, where the features were above the size of the transmitted ultrasound beam was demonstrated.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2022

본 논문은 낮은 연산 복잡도를 지니는 초음파 혈관 패턴 영상 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 혈관 패턴 영상 알고리즘은 혈류의 흐름 만 감지하여 혈관 패턴을 영상화하는 알고리즘이며 손가락 혈관의 패턴 영상을 추출하는 실시간 신호처리 하드웨어에 적용할 수 있다. 기존의 초음파 의료영상장비의 혈류영상 모드와 달리 제안하는 알고리즘은 혈류의 흐름 만 감지하여 영상으로 복원한다. 즉, 제안하는 영상 알고리즘은 I/Q 복조를 사용하지 않으며 클러터 필터의 출력 신호의 절대 값을 누적하는 방식으로 혈류 흐름의 유무를 검출하기 때문에, 알고리즘의 구조가 비교적 간단하다. 제안하는 영상 알고리즘의 복잡도를 검증하기 위해, Field-II 프로그램을 이용하여 손가락 혈관을 모사하는 시뮬레이션 모델을 구현하였다. 행위모사 시뮬레이션을 통해, 제안하는 알고리즘의 연산시간이 일반적인 color-flow 모드보다 약 54배 작은 것으로 확인되었다. 제안하는 영상 알고리즘에서 요구되는 주요 구성 블록과 연산량을 고려할 때, 제안하는 알고리즘은 FPGA 또는 ASIC과 같은 하드웨어에 구현되기에 용이하다.

• 한국레이저가공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2012

We demonstrate that reduced graphene oxide (rGO) coated thin aluminum film is an effective optoacoustic transmitter for generating high pressure and high frequency ultrasound previously unattainable by other techniques. The rGO layer of different thickness is deposited between a 100 nm-thick aluminum film and a glass substrate. Under a pulsed laser excitation, the transmitter generates enhanced optoacoustic pressure of 64 times the aluminum-alone transmitter. A promising optoacoustic wave generation is possible by optimizing thermoelasticity of metal film and thermal conductivity of rGO in the proposed transmitter for laser-induced ultrasound (LIUS) applications.