• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.127-133
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• 2024

The elbow joint is made up of three different bones. X-rays or other radiological exams are commonly used to diagnose elbow injuries or disorders caused by physical activity and external forces. Previous research on the elbow joint reported a new examination method that meets the imaging evaluation criteria in the tilt position by Z-axis elevation of the forearm. Therefore, this study aims to design an optimized instrument and develop an aid applicable to other upper extremity exams. After completing the 2D drawing and 3D modeling design, the final design divided into four parts was fabricated with a 3D printer using ABS plastic and assembled. The developed examination aid consists of a four-stage Z-axis elevation tilt angle function (0°, 5°, 10°, and 15°) and can rotate and fixate 360° in 1-degree increments. It was designed to withstand a maximum equivalent stress of 56.107 Pa and a displacement of 1.6548e-5 mm through structural analysis to address loading issues caused by cumulative frequency of use and physical utilization. In addition to X-ray exams of the elbow joint, the developed aid can be used for shoulder function tests by rotating the humerus and also be applied to MRI and CT exams as it is made of non-metallic materials. It will contribute to the accuracy and efficiency of medical imaging diagnosis through clinical applications of various devices and medical imaging exams in the future.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.431-438
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• 2004

Medical ultrasonic imaging is a useful imaging facility known to be most safe and easy. It enables physicians to observe the inside structures of the bodies, blood flow, and motions of internal organs. Some physical properties of biologic tissues can also be estimated from backscattered sounds. However, the ultrasonic pulses interrogating the living organisms leave their footprints in the returning signals during imaging. Some significant details are buried in the footprints and their overlaps from adjacent particles. These distortions also decrease the quality of the images. Many research efforts have been made to enhance the image quality and to recover the acoustic information in various ways. In this study, a new interrogation method based on the wavelet and subband filter bank is proposed. It adopts the subband wavelet filters satisfying the perfect-reconstruction (PR) conditions as the interrogating pulses to restore the details useful in tissue characterization and to enhance the image quality. The proposed method was applied to two types of simulations of ultrasonic imaging. The results showed its ability to restore the detailsin the simulated interrogation of biologic tissues, and verified the improved image quality in the simulated imaging of general ultrasonic phantom compared with the conventional method.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.251-256
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• 2019

A capsule endoscopy is a medical device that can capture an entire digestive organ from the esophagus to the anus at one time. It produces a vast amount of images consisted of about 8~12 hours in length and more than 50,000 frames on a single examination. However, since the analysis of endoscopic images is performed manually by a medical imaging specialist, the automation requirements of the analysis are increasing to assist diagnosis of the disease in the image. Among them, this study focused on automatic detection of polyp images. A polyp is a protruding lesion that can be found in the gastrointestinal tract. In this paper, we propose a weighted-image generation method to enhance the polyp image learning by multi-scale analysis. It is a way to extract the suspicious region of the polyp through the multi-scale analysis and combine it with the original image to generate a weighted image, that can enhance the polyp image learning. We experimented with SVM and RF which is one of the machine learning methods for 452 pieces of collected data. The F1-score of detecting the polyp with only original images was 89.3%, but when combined with the weighted images generated by the proposed method, the F1-score was improved to about 93.1%.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.35-41
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• 2010

By the development of medical devices, high-frequency medical devices are becoming widely used. Imaging diagnosis in hospital and clean treatment by high-frequency medical devices and cancer treatment through high-frequency heaters around us, all serve as the examples. However, it still lacks the measures to the problems of the RF(Radio Frequency) mutual interference between the high-frequency devices. In order to prevent the problematic factors for technical and industrial development, a new reasonable and suitable test method is required. In this paper, we study a standard test method for EMC evaluation to solve the RF mutual interference.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.199-200
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• 2019

최근 의료서비스에 ICT 기술이 도입되면서 의료서비스 패러다임이 병원중심에서 환자 중심으로 변화되고 있다. 특히, 사물인터넷 기술은 스마트헬스케어 서비스를 현실화하고 있다. 이로인하여 병원이 아닌 곳에서도 환자의 상태를 확인할 수 있고 이에 대한 적절한 조치를 취할 수 있는 다양한 서비스를 개발 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 그러나 의료 사각지대의 환자는 여전히 신속하게 조치를 못하는 실정이며, 관리가 되고 있지 않아 사회적인 문제로 이슈화되고 있다. 본 논문은 의료사각지대의 환자에 대한 의료영상 진단 지원을 위한 클라우드환경 기반의 Connected Radiology Care System을 제안하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.997-999
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• 2022

아기의 심장 박동 소리를 듣지 못하는 청각 장애 부모를 위한 태아 초음파 심장박동 촉각 변환 시스템을 개발하고자 하였다. 본 시스템은 아기의 심장박동 소리를 USB 마이크를 이용하여 소릿값을 입력받아 이에 대응하는 값을 진동 모터의 진동 출력 세기와 LED 밝기의 세기로 출력시키도록 하였다. 아기의 심장박동 느낌을 진동으로 표현해 내기 위해 진동의 샘플링 주기를 구체적인 수치로 조절하였고 산모에 따라 진동의 세기와 주변 잡음 제거를 할 수 있도록 조절하는 가변저항 2개를 연결하였다. 그 결과 태아 초음파 심장박동 촉각 변환 시스템을 성공적으로 개발하였으며 장치 체험자들로부터 총 평균 4.63점으로 높은 만족도를 얻었다. 개발 제품은 청각장애 산모들의 모성애를 충족시키고 아기의 심장박동을 느낌으로써 아기의 존재를 느낄 수 있을 것이며, 산부인과의 초음파 영상진단의 확장 신기술로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.106-122
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• 2010

생체의료 및 보안검색 응용을 위한 테라헤르츠파 기술에 대하여 조사하였다. 테라헤르츠파는 기존의 X-선이나 초음파, 적외선, 밀리미터파 등에 비하여 독특한 특성을 가지고 있어 새로운 분광 및 영상기술을 확립할 가능성을 가지고 있다. 테라헤르츠 기술의 발전과 더불어 생체의료분야에서는 암진단, 치과질환 및 바이오칩 등에서 큰 시장을 형성할 것으로 전망되며, 보안검색분야는 공항, 항만, 지하철, 우편물 취급 등의 공공부문에서부터 군사목적에 이르기까지 응용이 가능하다. 최근 수 년 동안 소형, 경량 및 저가격의 테라헤르츠 시스템이 개발되면서 시장전망에 크게 높아졌다. 초기에는 공공시설 및 대형 병원에서 시작하여, 기술적 안정성 및 시장 활성화에 의한 경제성이 확보되면 민간 부문의 시장으로 크게 파급될 것으로 가대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1107-1110
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• 2005

본 논문은 의료영상진단시스템에서의 의료정보보호를 위한TLS 프로세서의 구현에 관하여 기술하였다. DICOM 3.0 standard의 ‘Part 15. DICOM Security Profile’에서는 TLS와 ISCL 두 가지의 Secure Transport Connection Profile을 정의하고 있고, 인증, 데이터의 무결성 보장, 프리아버시 보호의 기능을 할 수 있도록 몇가지의 알고리즘을 사용할 것을 정의하고 있다. 그 중 TLS Security Profile에는 Triple DES CBC모드와, RSA and SHA를 정의하고 있다. 그리하여 본 논문에서는 세 알고리즘의 개별적인 동작 검증을 마친 후 통합된 TLS Processor를 설계하고 검증하였다. 일반적인 Mux만을 이용한 설계는 임베디드 시스템 적용에 있어서 면적을 많이 차지하는 단점이 나타났다. 따라서 면적을 많이 차지하는 레지스터를 줄이기 위해서 세 알고리즘 블록이 같은 레지스터를 공유하도록 설계하였다. 그리고 임베디드시스템 개발 키트인 IFC-ETK100장비의 FPGA에 회로를 올리고 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.8-15
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• 2002

This Paper proposes designing and implementing the database system storing the medical images. This system collects the medical image when doctors operate and diagnose the patients using the endoscope in the orthopedics, then stores the medical image data to database. Therefore. system avoids duplicated medical data, retrieves and updates the medical data effectively. The medical image data can be shared to the multiple users and application programs. This system consists of the five components. that is, the input module acquiring the medical image from the endoscope. the modulo storing the medical image. the database design and implementation storms the patient's disease history and the medical image data, user friendly interface design and implementation, and the simple data retrieval engine. The features of the system are followed. The image catcher program using DirectShow is portable any image catcher board And because the image catcher algorithm is implemented as a public module, The throughput can be increased during the development of video and audio contents on internet.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.123-128
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• 2005

It is necessary to obtain images of high diagnosis worth based on ability and skill of radiological technologist in case of acquisition of medical radiologaphy information. In addition, we need the various kinds of education considering individual radiological technologist variation and the organization of clinical education according to the large amount of learning and more expensive knowledge of radiology. In this paper, we implement CAI system for cervical vertebrae fracture radiograph with multimedia authoring tools on web environments. The CAI system can train a new radiological technologist and study a lot of radiological technologist on the cervical vertebrae fracture radiography acquisition based on more objective and systematical data in radiography room. The proposed CAI system is also expected as a useful program which can help to cure patients based on accurate diagnosis as well as obtain radiography more quickly using a technology of radiography acquisition for cervical vertebrae fracture.