• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.756-763
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• 2020

Objective: To evaluate the effects of attenuation threshold on CT pulmonary vascular volume ratios in children and young adults with congenital heart disease, and to suggest an optimal attenuation threshold. Materials and Methods: CT percentages of right pulmonary vascular volume were compared and correlated with percentages calculated from nuclear medicine right lung perfusion in 52 patients with congenital heart disease. The selected patients had undergone electrocardiography-synchronized cardiothoracic CT and lung perfusion scintigraphy within a 1-year interval, but not interim surgical or transcatheter intervention. The percentages of CT right pulmonary vascular volumes were calculated with fixed (80-600 Hounsfield units [HU]) and adaptive thresholds (average pulmonary artery enhancement [PA_avg] divided by 2.50, 2.00, 1.75, 1.63, 1.50, and 1.25). The optimal threshold exhibited the smallest mean difference, the lowest p-value in statistically significant paired comparisons, and the highest Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: The PA_avg value was 529.5 ± 164.8 HU (range, 250.1-956.6 HU). Results showed that fixed thresholds in the range of 320-400 HU, and adaptive thresholds of PA_avg/1.75-1.50 were optimal for quantifying CT pulmonary vascular volume ratios. The optimal thresholds demonstrated a small mean difference of ≤ 5%, no significant difference (> 0.2 for fixed thresholds, and > 0.5 for adaptive thresholds), and a high correlation coefficient (0.93 for fixed thresholds, and 0.91 for adaptive thresholds). Conclusion: The optimal fixed and adaptive thresholds for quantifying CT pulmonary vascular volume ratios appeared equally useful. However, when considering a wide range of PAavg, application of optimal adaptive thresholds may be more suitable than fixed thresholds in actual clinical practice.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1489-1496
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• 2013

Consider the ROC surface which is a generalization of the ROC curve for three-class diagnostic problems. In this work, we propose ve criteria for the three-class ROC surface by extending the Youden index, the sum of sensitivity and specificity, the maximum vertical distance, the amended closest-to-(0,1) and the true rate. It may be concluded that these five criteria can be expressed as a function of two Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics. A paired optimal thresholds could be obtained simultaneously from the ROC surface. It is found that the paired optimal thresholds selected from the ROC surface are equivalent to the two optimal thresholds found from the two ROC curves.

• 대한물리의학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.301-305
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• 2014

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal thresholds of serum lipid level related to hypertension according to age in Korean adults. METHODS: In total, 564 adults who visited the health examine center in general hospital were included. The blood pressure and lipid profiles of low density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), triglyceride(TG) were measured. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve were used to establish optimal thresholds between blood pressure and lipid profiles. RESULTS: The optimal TG cutoff value were 110.50(mg/dl) in the 18-39 and 81.50(mg/dl) in the 40-59 age group, and optimal cutoff value of LDL were 126.50(mg/dl) in the 40-59 age group and 111.00(mg/dl) in the 60 and over age group. There was a negative correlation between HDL and hypertension, a higher HDL decreased hypertension. The optimal cutoff value of HDL was 49.50(mg/dl) in the 18-39 age group. CONCLUSION: The thresholds of hypertension were lower in LDL and TG with aging. This result indicated that elderly people needs to concern more about their lipid profiles to maintain healthy cardiovascular function.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.187-198
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• 2019

ROC와 CAP 곡선을 이용하여 다양한 정확도 측도를 바탕으로 최적분류점을 추정하는 많은 연구가 있다. 본 연구에서는 ROC와 CAP 곡선의 특정한 부분 면적을 나타내는 대안적인 통계량을 제안한다. 새롭게 정의된 부분 면적을 나타내는 통계량의 미분방정식을 이용하여 ROC와 CAP 함수와의 관계를 살펴보고, 다음으로는 ROC와 CAP 곡선에 대한 다양한 정확도 측도들의 조건에서의 최적분류점과의 관계를 유도한다. 혼합분포를 구성하는 두 종류의 분포함수를 다양한 정규분포로 가정하여 최적분류점을 설정하고, 다양한 정확도 측도들의 조건에서의 최적분류점에 대응하는 제1종과 제2종 오류의 크기를 탐색하고 토론한다.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.773-786
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• 2014

본 연구는 ROC 곡선에서 형성되는 면적 형태로 나타나는 분류정확도기준인 오분류율곱(multiplication of false rates; MFR)를 제안한다. MFR 기준과 다른 기준로부터 구한 최적분류점의 분류성과에 대하여 비교 분석한다. 다양한 분포함수에 대하여 최적분류점을 구하고 이에 대응하는 FNR과 FPR을 비교하면서 MFR의 특징과 장점을 유도한다. 일반적인 비용함수를 바탕으로 분류점에 대한 비용비율을 다양한 분류기준을 이용하여 구한다. 비용곡선에 대한 비용비율의 관계를 정리하여 MFR 기준의 장점을 탐색한다. MFR 기준의 정의를 다차원 ROC 분석으로 확장하고 다차원의 다른 분류기준과의 관계를 설명하면서 토론한다.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.711-721
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• 2021

이 논문에서는 불균형 자료에 대한 분류 분석에서 불순도지수를 이용하여 임계값을 조정하는 방법에 대해 알아본다. 이항자료에 대한 분류에서는 소수범주를 Positive, 다수범주를 Negative라고 하면, 일반적으로 사용하는 0.5 기준으로 범주를 정하면 불균형 자료에서는 특이도는 높은 반면 민감도는 상대적으로 낮게 나오는 경향이 있다. 소수범주에 속한 개체를 제대로 분류하는 것이 상대적으로 중요한 문제에서는 민감도를 높이는 것이 중요한데 이를 분류기준이 되는 임계값을 조정을 통해 높이는 방법에 대해 알아본다. 기존연구에서는 G-mean이나 F1-score와 같은 측도를 기준으로 임계값을 조정했으나 이 논문에서는 CHAID의 카이제곱통계량, CART의 지니지수, C4.5의 엔트로피를 이용하여 최적임계값을 선택하는 방법을 제안한다. 최적임계값이 여러 개 나올 수 있는 경우 해결방법을 소개하고 불균형 분류 예제로 사용되는 데이터 분석을 통해 0.5를 기준으로 ?(무엇?)을 때와 비교하여 어떤 개선이 이루어졌는지 등을 분류성능측도로 알아본다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.1075-1089
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• 2024

In this paper, the optimizations of multi-hop cooperative molecular communication (CMC) system in cylindrical anomalous-diffusive channel in three-dimensional enviroment are investigated. First, we derive the performance of bit error probability (BEP) of CMC system under decode-and-forward relay strategy. Then for achieving minimum average BEP, the optimization variables are detection thresholds at cooperative nodes and destination node, and the corresponding optimization problem is formulated. Furthermore, we use conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm to solve this optimization problem to search optimal detection thresholds. The numerical results show the optimal detection thresholds can be obtained by CG algorithm, which has good convergence behaviors with fewer iterations to achieve minimized average BEP compared with gradient decent algorithm and Bisection method which are used in molecular communication.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.1027-1036
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• 2012

Among various biometrics recognition systems, statistical fingerprint recognition matching methods are considered using minutiae on fingerprints. We define similarity distance measures based on the coordinate and angle of the minutiae, and suggest a fingerprint recognition model following statistical distributions. We could obtain confidence intervals of similarity distance for the same and different persons, and optimal thresholds to minimize two kinds of error rates for distance distributions. It is found that the two confidence intervals of the same and different persons are not overlapped and that the optimal threshold locates between two confidence intervals. Hence an alternative statistical matching method can be suggested by using nonoverlapped confidence intervals and optimal thresholds obtained from the distributions of similarity distances.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4603-4624
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• 2016

In this paper, a new reversible watermarking algorithm with adaptive embedding threshold matrix is proposed. Firstly, to avoid the overflow and underflow, two flexible thresholds, TL and TR, are applied to preprocess the image histogram with least histogram shift cost. Secondly, for achieving an optimal or near optimal tradeoff between the embedding capacity and imperceptibility, the embedding threshold matrix, composed of the embedding thresholds of all blocks, is determined adaptively by the combination between the composite chaos and the average energy of Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) block. As a non-liner system with good randomness, the composite chaos is suitable to search the optimal embedding thresholds. Meanwhile, the average energy of IWT block is calculated to adjust the block embedding capacity, and more data are embedded into those IWT blocks with larger average energy. The experimental results demonstrate that compared with the state-of-the-art reversible watermarking schemes, the proposed scheme has better performance for the tradeoff between the embedding capacity and imperceptibility.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제41권7호
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• pp.979-988
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• 2009

Tensioned metastable fluids provide a powerful means for low-cost, efficient detection of a wide range of nuclear particles with spectroscopic capabilities. Past work in this field has relied on one-component liquids. Pure liquids may provide very good detection capability in some aspects, such as low thresholds or large radiation interaction cross sections, but it is rare to find a liquid that is a perfect candidate on both counts. It was hypothesized that liquid mixtures could offer optimal benefits and present more options for advancement. However, not much is known about radiation-induced thermal-hydraulics involving destabilization of mixtures of tensioned metastable fluids. This paper presents results of experiments that assess key thermophysical properties of liquid mixtures governing fast neutron radiation-induced cavitation in liquid mixtures. Experiments were conducted by placing liquid mixtures of various proportions in tension metastable states using Purdue's centrifugally-tensioned metastable fluid detector (CTMFD) apparatus. Liquids chosen for this study covered a good representation of both thermal and fast neutron interaction cross sections, a range of cavitation onset thresholds and a range of thermophysical properties. Experiments were devised to measure the effective liquid mixture viscosity and surface tension. Neutron-induced tension metastability thresholds were found to vary non-linearly with mixture concentration; these thresholds varied linearly with surface tension and inversely with mixture vapor pressure (on a semi-log scale), and no visible trend with mixture viscosity nor with latent heat of vaporization.