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Liver Vessel Extraction based on In-painting Method in Abdominal MRI Images (복부 MRI 영상에서의 인페인팅 기법을 활용한 간 혈관 검출 방법)

  • Eun, Sung-Jong;Whangbo, Taeg-Keun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.525-526
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    • 2011
  • 복부 MRI 영상에서 간의 인식은 간에 존재하는 질병을 파악하는 것뿐만 아니라 간에 대한 치료 방법이나 수술 방법을 결정하는 중요한 정보를 제공한다. 따라서 본 논문은 복부 MRI 영상에서 이러한 간 영역과 간의 혈관을 자동으로 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘은 1단계로 Region Growing의 개선된 방법으로 초기 설정된 간 영역의 외곽선 정보를 이용하여 씨앗점을 설정해 간 영역을 초기 분할한다. 2단계로 분할된 영역 경계선의 지역적 최소값을 이용하여 경계선의 보정 작업을 수행한다. 이후 3단계로 추출된 간 영역을 기반으로 영상 개선 후, 인페인팅(In-painting) 기법을 활용하여 간 영역 내부의 혈관 부분을 검출하게 된다. 제안 알고리즘의 평가는 전문의의 수작업 결과와 비교하였고, 결과 82.5%의 평균 정확도를 보여 제안 알고리즘의 효과적인 간혈관 검출을 확인하였다. 향후 본 연구의 확장으로 검출된 혈관 영역의 3D Volume Rendering 연구를 수행할 예정이다.

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Direct Purification of Lysozyme from Hen Egg White Using High Density Mixed Mode Adsorbent

  • KIM, WON KYUNG;BONG HYUN CHUNG
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.292-296
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    • 1999
  • The high density mixed mode adsorbent known by the trade name of Mimo-AD was used to purify lysozyme directly from the hen egg white (HEW). The homogenized hen egg white was treated with the adsorbent in a stirred vessel for lysozyme adsorption, and then the adsorbent, easily separated from the HEW by sedimentation, was packed into a column. The remaining HEW and contaminant proteins were removed by washing with pH 11 distilled water in an expanded-bed state, and subsequently the elution was performed with pH 12 distilled water in a packed-bed state. By this simple and rapid adsorption, washing, and elution procedure, lysozyme was purified to>95% with an overall recovery yield of 66%. This process offers a great potential for industrial application by allowing the extraction of lysozyme while retaining the commercial value of HEW.

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Extraction of Coronary Arteries Wall based on Wavelet in IVUS Image (IVUS영상에서 웨이블릿 기반의 관상동맥 벽의 추출)

  • Lee, Na-Young;Kim, Gye-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2005.11b
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    • pp.940-942
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    • 2005
  • 혈관내부의 초음파는 혈관 벽(vessel wail) 전체를 관찰할 수 있는 단면적 영상(cross-sectional image)으로부터 혈관 벽의 서로 다른 층을 평가할 수 있다. IVUS(Intravascular Ultrasound)영상은 잡음에 매우 민감하고 해상도가 낮기 때문에 혈관 벽의 서로 다른 층을 구분된다. IVUS영상이 내강, 혈관 벽, 외막을 둘러싸는 영역으로 구성되어있다고 가정하면 내부와 외부의 두 경계선으로 구분할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 IVUS영상을 웨이블릿 변환하여 주파수 공간에서 관상동맥 벽의 두 경계선을 추출한다. 실험결과를 통하여 관상동맥 벽의 두 경계선이 잘 추출되는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

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A Study on the Prediction of the Bow Form Design for Icebreakers (영해용선박의 선수형상 설계추정에 관한 연구)

  • 고상룡;박명규
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.73-97
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    • 1991
  • The analysis and investigation are described for White's[2] equations compared to the equations of Runeburg[3] and Milano[5] for continuous icebreaking mode, Tunik[8-1] and Ghoneim[8-2] for ramming icebreaking mode. Calculation results compare reasonably well with published model-scale and full-scale icebreaker data by Baker[1] and Dick[11]. During continuous and ramming mode operation, using characteristics of an incebreaker, down ward force on ice and standard ice thickness broken are predicted. Additionally draft, trim and extraction difficulty are also predicted. The bow part line of an icebreakin $g^{ply}$ vessel is designed aiming to maximize the ice breaking capabiltiy as following conditions-low bow angle[20 degrees] at designed waterline, small spread angle complement [6 degrees] at designed waterline, small spread angle complement [6 degrees] and high propeller thrust [220tons]. with plow, two reamers and wave type bumper.

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Outlier Distinction Algorithm via Vessel Representative Trajectory Extraction (선박 대표 궤적 추출을 통한 Outlier 판별 알고리즘)

  • Park, Jin-Gwan;Oh, Joo-Seong;Kim, Bum-Mu;Jeon, Sung-Min;Lee, Sung-Ro;Jeong, Min-A
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2014.11a
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    • pp.102-104
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    • 2014
  • 본 논문은 해상 교통량 증가로 급증하는 선박 사고 위험을 줄이기 위해 안전 운항을 위한 대규모 선박 궤적 클러스터링을 제안한다. 선박의 위도와 경도, 이름 및 상태, 속도, 선수 방향 등이 기록된 대용량의 데이터집합을 바탕으로 선박 궤적 클러스터링을 통해 총 2개의 선박 대표 궤적을 추출한다. 해당 선박의 이전까지의 대표 궤적, 그리고 해당 해상의 모든 선박의 대표 궤적을 추출한 후 현재 해당 선박의 궤적패턴과 비교하여 유사하지 않으면 Outlier로 판별하여 이상 거동 및 불규칙 움직임, 충돌상황을 대비할 수 있도록 의사결정에 도움을 줄 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하였다.

Image Registration for High-Quality Vessel Visualization in Angiography (혈관조영영상에서 고화질 혈관가시화를 위한 영상정합)

  • Hong, Helen;Lee, Ho;Shin, Yeong-Gil
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.201-206
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    • 2003
  • In clinical practice, CT Angiography is a powerful technique for the visualziation of blood flow in arterial vessels throughout the body. However CT Angiography images of blood vessels anywhere in the body may be fuzzy if the patient moves during the exam. In this paper, we propose a novel technique for removing global motion artifacts in the 3D space. The proposed methods are based on the two key ideas as follows. First, the method involves the extraction of a set of feature points by using a 3D edge detection technique based on image gradient of the mask volume where enhanced vessels cannot be expected to appear, Second, the corresponding set of feature points in the contrast volume are determined by correlation-based registration. The proposed method has been successfully applied to pre- and post-contrast CTA brain dataset. Since the registration for motion correction estimates correlation between feature points extracted from skull area in mask and contrast volume, it offers an accelerated technique to accurately visualize blood vessels of the brain.

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Vessel extraction in optical microscope image with non-uniform illumination (명도 불균형 현상을 가진 광학 현미경 영상에서의 혈관 추출)

  • Lee, Ji-Hye;Kim, Myoung-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.371-372
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    • 2009
  • 세포단위에서 혈관 생성과정 관찰 시 사용되는 광학현미경 영상은 광원의 특성으로 인해 부분적으로 영상이 밝거나 혹은 어둡게 나타난다. 이러한 현상은 혈관 영상에서의 혈관 분석을 어렵게 하므로 본 논문에서는 신 혈관 생성 영상에서 명도 불균형 문제를 해결하는 혈관 추출 및 정량화 기법을 제안한다. 불균형 명도 문제를 해결하기 위해 지역적 문턱치화 방법을 사용하고, 잡음 및 혈관 내 틈새 문제를 해결하기 위해 형태학적 연산 처리를 하였다. 그 결과 명도가 어두운 지역에서 배경 잡음이 없고, 영역이 끊어지지 않고 하나로 연결된 혈관을 추출할 수 있었다. 추출된 혈관 영역에서 골격화와 혈관 세그먼트에 기반하여 두께, 길이, 넓이를 정량화함으로써 혈관 분석 시 현미경에 탑재되어 있어 가장 널리 사용되고 있는 메타 모르프보다 정확한 정량화 결과를 얻었다.

STURGE WEBER SYNDROME : A CASE REPORT (Sturge Weber syndrome 환아의 증례보고)

  • Hwang, Ji-Won;Kim, Seong-Oh;Choi, Hyung-Jun;Choi, Byung-Jai;Lee, Jae-Ho
    • The Journal of Korea Assosiation for Disability and Oral Health
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.15-18
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    • 2010
  • Sturge-Weber syndrome is a rare nonhereditary developmental condition that is characterized by a hamartomatous vascular proliferation involving the tissue of brain and face. The clinical features are characterized by port wine nevus following one or more divisions of trigeminal nerve, ocular involvement and neurologic involvement such as epilepsy, mental retardation, and contralateral hemiplegia. Oral manifestations include unilateral blood vessel expansion of the oral mucosa, vascular hyperplasia of gingiva, pyogenic granuloma-like massive hemangiomatous proliferation of oral mucosa, macrodontia, ipsilateral macroglossia, blood vessel anomaly of maxilla or mandible and abnormal tooth eruption sequence. This case report is about 11-year-old Sturge-Weber syndrome patient presented port wine nevus on the face, venous malformation on soft plate and buccal mucosa. In this case we performed simple extraction of several deciduous teeth and periodic oral hygiene management. If a patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome has to undergo dental surgery in affected areas of the mouth, great care must be taken to prevent severe hemorrhage.

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Multi GPU Based Image Registration for Cerebrovascular Extraction and Interactive Visualization (뇌혈관 추출과 대화형 가시화를 위한 다중 GPU기반 영상정합)

  • Park, Seong-Jin;Shin, Yeong-Gil
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.445-449
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient multi GPU accelerated image registration technique to correct the motion difference between the pre-contrast CT image and post-contrast CTA image. Our method consists of two steps: multi GPU based image registration and a cerebrovascular visualization. At first, it computes a similarity measure considering the parallelism between both GPUs as well as the parallelism inside GPU for performing the voxel-based registration. Then, it subtracts a CT image transformed by optimal transformation matrix from CTA image, and visualizes the subtracted volume using GPU based volume rendering technique. In this paper, we compare our proposed method with existing methods using 5 pairs of pre-contrast brain CT image and post-contrast brain CTA image in order to prove the superiority of our method in regard to visual quality and computational time. Experimental results show that our method well visualizes a brain vessel, so it well diagnose a vessel disease. Our multi GPU based approach is 11.6 times faster than CPU based approach and 1.4 times faster than single GPU based approach for total processing.

Improvements in the Marine Environmental Survey on Impact of Seawater Qualities and Ecosystems due to Marine Sand Mining (바다모래 채취 시 해수 수질 및 생태계 영향에 대한 해양환경조사 개선 방안)

  • Kim, Yeong-Tae;Kim, Gui-Young;Jeon, Kyeong-Am;Eom, Ki-Hyuk;Kim, In-Chul;Choi, Bo-Ram;Kim, Hee-Jung;Kim, Jin-Min
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.143-156
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    • 2014
  • We reviewed investigation status on turbidity plume in the statement of marine environmental survey(2008 to 2012) associated with marine sand extraction projects. The survey statement from seven marine sand extraction sites (extraction area of Southern EEZ, extraction area of Western EEZ, relocation zone in the Western EEZ, sea area under jurisdiction of Taean-gun, sea area under jurisdiction of Ansan City, and two discrete sea areas under jurisdiction of Ongjin-gun) in the nearshore and offshore of Korea showed that in situ observations were carried out for the dispersion and transport of suspended sediments on two areas (One is a extraction area in the EEZs, the other is an area of coastal sites). However, sampling station and range have not been selected considering physical, geographical factors (tide, wave, stratification, water depth, etc.) and weather conditions (wind direction and velocity, fetch, duration, etc). Especially turbidity plumes originating from three sources, which include suspended sediments in overflow(or overspill) discharged from spillways and reject chutes of dredging vessel, and resuspended sediments from draghead at the seabed, may be transported to a far greater distance outside the boundary of the extraction site and have undesirable impacts on the marine environment and ecosystem. We address that behaviour of environmental pollutants such as suspended solids, nutrients, and metals should be extensively monitored and diagnosed during the dispersion and transport of the plume. Finally we suggest the necessity to supplement the current system of the sea area utilization consultation and establish the combined guidelines on marine sand extraction to collect basic data, to monitor cumulative effects, and to minimize environmental damages incurred by the aftermath of sand extraction.