Abstract: The present invention provides an ultrasound imaging system for forming 3D volume data of a target object, including a three-dimensional (3D) image providing unit for providing a 3D ultrasound image; a pre-processing unit for forming a number of two-dimensional (2D) images from the 3D ultrasound image and normalizing the 2D images to form normalized 2D images; an edge extraction unit for forming wavelet-transformed images of the normalized 2D images at a number of scales, the edge extraction unit further being configured to form edge images by averaging the wavelet-transformed images at a number of scales and threshold the edge images; a control point determining unit for determining control points by using a support vector machine (SVM) based on the normalized 2D images, the wavelet-transformed images and the thresholded edge images; and a rendering unit for forming 3D volume data of the target object by 3D rendering based on the control points.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing system, which includes: a 3D image data forming unit for forming three-dimensional (3D) image data based on input image signals; a sectional image extracting unit for extracting sectional images from the 3D image data; a contour detecting unit for detecting contours of a target object on the extracted sectional images; a sectional image forming unit for setting a reference plane in the 3D image data and forming multiple sectional images based on the reference plane; a contour editing unit for editing contours of the target object on the multiple sectional images based on contour editing information provided by a user; and an image forming unit for forming a 3D volume image based on the edited contours.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of processing an ultrasound image, comprising the steps of: a) successively acquiring ultrasound images from an object; b) sampling ultrasound images in a predetermined time interval; c) determining an image difference between a currently sampled ultrasound image and a previously sampled ultrasound image; d) if the image difference is greater than a critical value, adjusting image parameters to optimize the image parameters; and e) applying the adjusted image parameters to the ultrasound images.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method and apparatus of analyzing a wired/wireless communication network to optimize performance of the network. In the present invention, data are continuously gathered from all elements constituting a wired/wireless communication network and are analyzed to find an element of which performance and/or efficiency deteriorates. If found, an optimal plan to resolve low performance and/or efficiency is chosen through the data analysis and is then provided in real time. The present invention also relates to a recording medium storing computer programs to conduct said procedures.