• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.720-731
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• 2022

Objective: We aimed to develop and test a deep learning algorithm (DLA) for fully automated measurement of the volume and signal intensity (SI) of the liver and spleen using gadoxetic acid-enhanced hepatobiliary phase (HBP)-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to evaluate the clinical utility of DLA-assisted assessment of functional liver capacity. Materials and Methods: The DLA was developed using HBP-MRI data from 1014 patients. Using an independent test dataset (110 internal and 90 external MRI data), the segmentation performance of the DLA was measured using the Dice similarity score (DSS), and the agreement between the DLA and the ground truth for the volume and SI measurements was assessed with a Bland-Altman 95% limit of agreement (LOA). In 276 separate patients (male:female, 191:85; mean age ± standard deviation, 40 ± 15 years) who underwent hepatic resection, we evaluated the correlations between various DLA-based MRI indices, including liver volume normalized by body surface area (LV_BSA), liver-to-spleen SI ratio (LSSR), MRI parameter-adjusted LSSR (aLSSR), LSSR × LV_BSA, and aLSSR × LV_BSA, and the indocyanine green retention rate at 15 minutes (ICG-R15), and determined the diagnostic performance of the DLA-based MRI indices to detect ICG-R15 ≥ 20%. Results: In the test dataset, the mean DSS was 0.977 for liver segmentation and 0.946 for spleen segmentation. The Bland-Altman 95% LOAs were 0.08% ± 3.70% for the liver volume, 0.20% ± 7.89% for the spleen volume, -0.02% ± 1.28% for the liver SI, and -0.01% ± 1.70% for the spleen SI. Among DLA-based MRI indices, aLSSR × LV_BSA showed the strongest correlation with ICG-R15 (r = -0.54, p < 0.001), with area under receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.932 (95% confidence interval, 0.895-0.959) to diagnose ICG-R15 ≥ 20%. Conclusion: Our DLA can accurately measure the volume and SI of the liver and spleen and may be useful for assessing functional liver capacity using gadoxetic acid-enhanced HBP-MRI.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

2차원 전기영동 영상 분석 프로그램의 반점 검출 단계에서 해결해야할 문제점 중에 하나는 잡영 제거의 문제이다. 전처리과정에서 처리되지 않고 남은 잡영은 영역분할 결과 과분할되는 문제를 낳는다. 과분할된 배경 영역을 구분하고 제외시키기 위해서 일정한 밝기 이상의 영역을 제거하는 고정 문턱값을 사용하여 영역을 제거하면, 육안으로는 보이지 않으나 중요한 기능을 하는 미량의 단백질을 나타내는 반점들이 제외될 수도 있다. 제안 기법은 영역분할 후에 영역들의 첨도의 평균 곡선을 지수함수에 회귀분석하여 매개변수를 구한 다음, 오차의 확률분포에 따라서 매개변수들로 문턱값을 구하여 적용한다. 오차의 확률분포에 따르면 문턱값 적용의 신뢰도는 99.85%이며, 제안기법을 실험 영상으로 실험한 결과로써 적응적 문턱값 결정 기법이 정확함을 보인다.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.559-562
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• 2003

A motion-based background subtraction method without geometric computation is proposed, allowing that the camera is moving parallel to the ground plane with uniform velocity. The proposed method subtracts the background region from a given image by evaluating the difference between calculated and model Hows. This approach is insensitive to small errors of calculated optical flows. Furthermore, in order to tackle the significant errors, a strategy for incorporating a set of optical flows calculated over different frame intervals is presented. An experiment with two real image sequences, in which a static box or a moving toy car appears, to evaluate the performance in terms of accuracy under varying thresholds using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. The ROC curves show, in the best case, the figure-ground segmentation is done at 17.8 ％ in false positive fraction (FPF) and 71.3％ in true positive fraction (TPF) for the static-object scene and also at 14.8％ in FPF and 72.4％ In TPF for the moving-object scene, regardless if the calculated optical flows contain significant errors of calculation.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2011

This study discussed the applicability of satellite SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imagery with regard to reservoir monitoring, and tried the extraction of reservoir storage from multi-temporal C-band RADARSAT-1 SAR backscattering images of Yedang and Goongpyeong agricultural reservoirs, acquired from May to October 2005. SAR technology has been advanced as a complementary and alternative approach to optical remote sensing and in-situ measurement. Water bodies in SAR imagery represent low brightness induced by low backscattering, and reservoir storage can be derived from the backscatter contrast with the level-area-volume relationship of each reservoir. The threshold segmentation over the routine preprocessing of SAR images such as speckle reduction and low-pass filtering concluded a significant correlation between the SAR-derived reservoir storage and the observation record in spite of the considerable disagreement. The result showed up critical limitations for adopting SAR data to reservoir monitoring as follows: the inappropriate specifications of SAR data, the unreliable rating curve of reservoir, the lack of climatic information such as wind and precipitation, the interruption of inside and neighboring land cover, and so on. Furthermore, better accuracy of SAR-based reservoir monitoring could be expected through different alternatives such as multi-sensor image fusion, water level measurement with altimeters or interferometry, etc.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.746-750
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• 2005

This paper describes image processing techniques that can detect, segment, and analyze the mango's physical properties such as size, shape, surface area, and color from images. First, images of mangoes taken by a digital camera are analyzed and segmented. The segmentation is done based on constructed hue model of the sample mangoes. Some morphological and filtering techniques are then applied to clean noises before fitting spline curve on the mango boundary. From the clean segmented image, the mango projected area can be computed. The shape of the mango is then analyzed using some structuring models. Color is also spatially analyzed and indexed in the database for future classification. To obtain the surface area, the mango is peeled. The scanned image of its peels is then segmented and filtered using similar approach. With calibration parameters, the surface area could then be computed. We employed the system to evaluate physical properties of a mango cultivar called "Nam Dokmai". There were sixty mango samples in three various sizes graded by an experienced farmer's eyes and hands. The results show the techniques could be a good alternative and more feasible method for grading mango comparing to human's manual grading.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.453-464
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• 2012

This is a research of an adaptive longitudinal control system for situated cognition in wide range, traffic accidents reduction and safety driving environment by integrated system which graft a road infrastructure's information based on IT onto the intelligent vehicle combined automobile and IT technology. The road infrastructure installed by laser scanner in intersection, speed limited area and sharp curve area where is many risk of traffic accident. The road infra conducts objects recognition, segmentation, and tracking for determining dangerous situation and communicates real-time information by Ethernet with vehicle. Also, the data which transmitted from infrastructure supports safety driving by integrated with laser scanner's data on vehicle bumper.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.662-671
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• 2017

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a major cause of death in the world. As a non-invasive imaging modality, computed tomography angiography (CTA) is now usually used in clinical practice for CAD diagnosis. Precise quantification of coronary stenosis is of great interest for diagnosis and treatment planning. In this paper, a novel cluster method based on a Modified Student's t-Mixture Model is applied to separate the region of vessel lumen from other tissues. Then, the area of the vessel lumen in each slice is computed and the estimated value of it is fitted with a curve. Finally, the location and the level of the most stenoses are captured by comparing the calculated and fitted areas of the vessel. The proposed method has been applied to 17 clinical CTA datasets and the results have been compared with reference standard degrees of stenosis defined by an expert. The results of the experiment indicate that the proposed method can accurately quantify the stenosis of the coronary artery in CTA.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.85-96
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• 2023

The number of traffic accidents caused by wet or icy road surface conditions is on the rise every year. Car crashes in such bad road conditions can increase fatalities and serious injuries. Historical data (from the year 2016 to the year 2020) on weather-related traffic accidents show that the fatality rates are fairly high in Korea. This requires accurate prediction and identification of hazardous road conditions. In this study, a forecasting model is developed to predict the chances of traffic accidents that can occur on roads affected by weather and road surface conditions. Multiple deep learning algorithms taking into account AlexNet and 2D-CNN are employed. Data on orthophoto images, automatic weather systems, automated synoptic observing systems, and road surfaces are used for training and testing purposes. The orthophotos images are pre-processed before using them as input data for the modeling process. The procedure involves image segmentation techniques as well as the Z-Curve index. Results indicate that there is an acceptable performance of prediction such as 65% for dry, 46% for moist, and 33% for wet road conditions. The overall accuracy of the model is 53%. The findings of the study may contribute to developing comprehensive measures for enhancing road safety.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.151-159
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• 2010

본 논문은 기존 모형들보다 더 정확한 고속도로 사고 예측 모형을 개발하기 위해 수행한 연구 결과를 제시하고 있다. 기존 모형들은 도로 기하구조와 사고 건수 간 연관성을 밝히기 위해 해당 사고 지점 주변의도로 특성만을 고려하는 반면, 본 연구에서는 해당 사고지점 전방에 위치한 도로구간을 합쳐서 고려하는 점이 다르다. 차량교통사고는 주행중인 상황에서 발생하고, 특히 고속도로의 경우 한 지점의 차량 속도는 전방 도로 상황에 따라 민감하게 변하기 때문에 본 연구에서 적용한 기법은 상당히 현실적이라 할 수 있다. 모형을 구축하기 위해 서해안고속도로 4차로 구간 269.3km를 선정하여 기하구조 데이터를 구축하였고, 해당 구간에서 2003~2008년 6년 동안 발생한 1,664건의 교통사고를 매칭시켰다. 본 데이터의 사고발생특성은 포아송분포보다 음이항분포를 따르는 것으로 분석되었으며, 본 연구에서 개발한 모형에 따르면 교통사고 발생은 곡선길이와 곡선반경에 반비례 관계인 것으로 나타났다. 한편 교통사고 발생은 직선부의 직선길이에 비례하는 것으로 나타났다. 이 결과는 기존 연구 결과와는 다른 결과로서, 본 연구에서 가정했던대로 교통사고 발생은 해당 사고지점 전방에 위치한 도로구간상황에 의존한다는 것을 알 수 있다. 그 외에도 본 연구에서는 내리막 직선길이, 과속카메라 설치여부, 분류부와 합류부의 교통사고 발생에 미치는 영향에 대해서도 중요한 결과를 도출했다. 본 연구 결과는 고속도로 도로 설계와 안전 진단 사업에 도움이 될 것으로 기대하며, 향후 본 연구 기법을 일반 국도나 도시내 주요 도로들에 대해서도 적용해 보는 것이 바람직할 것이다.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제54권8호
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• pp.553-566
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• 2021

하천 합류부는 두 개의 수체가 만나 전단층을 이루고 전단층을 따라 강한 혼합양상을 보이는 특징이 있다. 자연하천에서 합류하는 대비되는 두 하천의 색은 전단층을 따라 구분될 수 있는데, 이는 위성 또는 무인항공체를 이용해 촬영된 항공영상을 통해 쉽게 관측할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 취득 비용이 저렴한 RGB 항공 영상을 이용해 합류부에서 발생하는 전단층을 추출하고 전단층 주변의 기하학적 특성을 정량적으로 산정하는 방법을 제시한다. 본 방법은 네 단계로 구분된다. 첫 번째로, 합류부 흐름에서 전단층 추출을 위해 가우시안 혼합 모형을 바탕으로 한 영상 분할을 수행하여 본류와 지류가 포함된 픽셀을 추출해낸다. 다음으로 추출된 하천 수역에 자기조직화지도를 적용해 하천의유선을 1차원 곡선으로 단순화한다. 추출된 수체 영역과 1차원 곡선들을 이용해 본류와 지류의 수역을 이미지상 직교좌표계에서 곡선좌표계로 투영한 뒤, 마지막으로 전단층의 기하학적 특성을 산정한다. 결과적으로 개발된 전단층 추출법을 경상남도의 낙동강과 남강의 합류부가 촬영된 위성 영상에 적용하여 자연하천 합류부의 기하학적 특성인 합류각, 합류하는 두 하천의 상하류 하천 폭, 전단층의 길이, 그리고 전단층의 최대 두께를 각각 정량적으로 추출하는 데에 성공하였다.