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Deformable image registration in radiation therapy

  • Oh, Seungjong;Kim, Siyong
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.101-111
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    • 2017
  • The number of imaging data sets has significantly increased during radiation treatment after introducing a diverse range of advanced techniques into the field of radiation oncology. As a consequence, there have been many studies proposing meaningful applications of imaging data set use. These applications commonly require a method to align the data sets at a reference. Deformable image registration (DIR) is a process which satisfies this requirement by locally registering image data sets into a reference image set. DIR identifies the spatial correspondence in order to minimize the differences between two or among multiple sets of images. This article describes clinical applications, validation, and algorithms of DIR techniques. Applications of DIR in radiation treatment include dose accumulation, mathematical modeling, automatic segmentation, and functional imaging. Validation methods discussed are based on anatomical landmarks, physical phantoms, digital phantoms, and per application purpose. DIR algorithms are also briefly reviewed with respect to two algorithmic components: similarity index and deformation models.

Medical Image Database for Morphometric and Functional Analysis of Brain Images (뇌 영상의 형태적 및 기능적 분석을 위한 의료 영상 데이터베이스)

  • Kim, Tae-U
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.8B no.2
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    • pp.164-172
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    • 2001
  • 본 논문에서는 시각화와 공간적, 속성 혼합 쿼리를 수행할 수 있는 관계형 데이터베이스를 설계하고 구현하였다. 쿼리에 사용되는 데이터형은 슬라이스, MPR, 볼륨 렌더링으로 시각화할 수 있으며, 쿼리는 아탈라스를 이용하는 경우와 그렇지 않는 경우를모두 고려하였다. 영상 데이터는 공간충전 곡선으로 공간적으로 클러스트링한 후 무손실 압축하여 데이터베이스에 저장된다. 본 논문은 저장 데이터의 양을 줄이기 위하여 관심영역의 크기에 따라 창의 크기가 변하는 적응적 Hibert 곡선을 제안하였으며, 실험에서 Hibert 곡선의 적용한 데이터보다 약 1.15배 높은 압축율을 보였다. 또한 아틀라스에 대한 뇌종양의 공간적 쿼리 결과를 통하여 본 의료 영상 데이터베이스의 유용성을 보였다.

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Combined PET/CT in Oncology (종양핵의학에서 PET/CT의 역할)

  • Kang, Keon-Wook
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.80-86
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    • 2002
  • Presently, PET is widely used in oncology, but suffers from limitations of poor anatomical information. To compensate for this weakness, a combined PET/CT has been developed by Professor Townsend at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The prototype was designed as PET and CT components combined serially in a gantry. The CT images provide not only accurate anatomical location of the lesions but also transmission map for attenuation correction. More than 300 cancer patients have been studied with the prototype of PET/CT since July, 1998. The PET/CT studies affected the managements in about $20{\sim}30%$ of cancer patients. These changes are a consequence of the more accurate localization of functional abnormalities, and the distinction of pathological from normal physiological uptake. Now a variety of combined PET/CT scanners with high-end PET and high-end CT components are commercially available. With the high speed of multi-slice helical CT, throughput of patient's increases compared to conventional PET. Although some problems (such as a discrepancy in breathing state between the two modalities) still remain, the role of PET/CT in oncology is very promising.

Evaluation of Cancer Treatment Using FDG-PET (FDG-PET을 이용한 암 치료 효과의 평가)

  • Ryu, Jin-Sook
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.64-73
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    • 2002
  • FDG-PET has potential as an effective, non-invasive tool to measure tumor response to anticancer therapy. The changes in tumor FDG uptake may provide an early, sensitive guide to the clinical and subclinical response of tumors to cancer treatment, as well as functional assessment of residual viable tumor. This may allow the evaluation of subclinical response to anticancer drugs in early clinical trials and improvements in patients management. However, monitoring tumor responses with FDG-PET is still in its infancy. The methods of measurement of FDG uptake are currently diverse and timing with respect to anti cancer therapy variable. Therefore, there is a need for larger-scale trials along with standardized methodology and a collection of reproducibility data. The recent guideline from the European group seems to be the most comprehensive. In future, the combination of morphological and metabolic images may improve the quantitative nature of these measurements by relating tumor viability to total tumor mass. More data on sensitivity and specificity of FDG-PET technique are needed along with continued advancement of PET methodology.

A Study on the Correlation between Constituents of Designing the Interior of FRT (궤도차량 실내디자인 형상화를 위한 구성요인간의 상관성 연구)

  • Han Suk-Woo;Jin Mi-Ja;Mok Jai-Kyun;Moo Kyeong-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.274-280
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    • 2005
  • Future-oriented train design should be able to provide highly refined traffic culture and public transportation service by achieving 'higher value addition, sensitization, and humanization' and then securing safety, convenience, and amenity. Therefore, design of FRT, as a means of environment-friendly public transportation, should have new concepts achieving harmony between design and technology. Consequently, when designing interior of trains for public transportation, it should aim for user-centered strategies. This approach is essentially applied to vehicle design and inducement to new concepts by design aesthetics and their verification become requirements for train Interior design, which should be equipped with sensitivity and functional images. Accordingly, a study on the correlation between constituents in order to implement design is essential to design planning and realization of strategies.

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Influence of the Type and Blending Ratio of Binders on Ink-jet Printing Properties (바인더의 종류 및 배합비율이 잉크제트 인쇄특성에 미치는 영향)

  • 이희명;김창근;이용규
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.22-31
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, PVA(polyvinylalcohol), oxidized starch and SBR latex were used as binders for ink-jet printing papers, and their effects of the type and blending ratio of binders on ink-jet printing properties were compared. In case of coating color using PVA mainly used for a binder in ink-jet printing, spreading of printed letters decreased and excellent images were manifested resulting from strong hydrophilic of PVA. However, increasing solids content of coating color was somewhat limited because of the interaction of PVA and functional groups in silica as well as high molecular weight of PVA. When oxidized starch and SBR latex were mixed with PVA at desirable ratio to solve these problems, runnability in coating process was improved and good printing properties were shown. Gloss was improved when latex was used along with PVA as a binder because of the thermoplastic property of the latex. From this result, possibilities of high solids content and high gloss ink-jet printing papers were investigated.

A Study on the Changed by Spatial Structure Element for the Space Planning of Apartment Complex (아파트 단지 계획을 위한 공간구성요소의 변화 분석)

  • 오진안
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 1996
  • View From the point of change of the land of the land of the nation. The advancement in the modern civilization has led to building many apartments characterized by high buildings and building complexes due to population concentration into big cities. This tendency not only causes serious problems in terms of city images but also produces considerable discords in the matter of harmonized beauty of the complex itself.At the stage of space planning for the apartment complexes only economic and functional aspects were considered. So in many cases the space, which dose not contribute to environmental improvement which must go in parallel with the quantity increase of apartments and improvements of welfare and living standards of the apartment inhabitants.

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Cultural Goods Development with Hahoe Village Motif (하회마을을 모티브로 한 문화상품 디자인 개발)

  • Seo, Seok Min
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.96-103
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    • 2016
  • This article is to develop test product as adopting motifs from Andong Hahoe Village registered in the UNESCO World Heritage. This study associates physiographic features and images of Hahoe Village with test product. In the research result of this study, the value of product and possibility of success of test product was found as follows. Firstly, Making the puzzle-oriented Desk Service Hahoe Village views by using 22 different styles & functional artworks. Secondly, Producing the tangible forms such as a tree, thatched cottage, arbor, tile-roofed house and ferryboat by casting technique. Thirdly, Designing the shape of the terrain by utilizing computer programing softwares such as CAD drawings and ARTCAM. Finally, Developing the mass-produce goods reflecting region historical and cultural characteristics. I expect this study may increase of interest of our country's culture and play several roles of the bridgehead for product development. Also I reconsider sensitivity recovery of users and our cultural value increase.

Adaptive Active Contour Model: a Localized Mutual Information Approach for Medical Image Segmentation

  • Dai, Shuanglu;Zhan, Shu;Song, Ning
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.1840-1855
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    • 2015
  • Troubles are often met when traditional active contours extract boundaries of medical images with inhomogeneous bias and various noises. Focusing on such a circumstance, a localized mutual information active contour model is discussed in the paper. By defining neighborhood of each point on the level set, mutual information is introduced to describe the relationship between the zero level set and image field. A driving energy term is then generated by integrating all the information. In addition, an expanding energy and internal energy are designed to regularize the driving energy. Contrary to piecewise constant model, new model has a better command of driving the contours without initialization.

Surface potential mapping using a functional AFEM cantilever (기능성 원자간력 현미경 캔틸레버를 이용한 표면 전위 측정)

  • Suh Moon Suhk;Lee Churl Seung;Lee Kyoung Il;Shin Jin-Koog
    • 정보저장시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.53-55
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    • 2005
  • The surface potential variations are measured, according to the enhanced measuring speed and voltage sensitivity, using an active device, such as a field effect transistor $(FET)^{1-3}$. In this study, the surface potential was mapped in the patterned $SiO_2$ medium at room temperature. An improved FET-tip cantilever, which has a source, a drain, and an n- channel, was used in this study. The potential images were analyzed both in the contact mode and the non-contact mode, using only a pre-amplifier system instead of a lock-in the amplifier.

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