• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.106-113
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• 2013

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics and the psychosocial factors associated to the referral to psychiatric care in the suicide attempters visiting emergency center. Methods: We conducted a systematic chart review of 377 suicidal attempters visiting emergency center of the Korea University Ansan Hospital between January 2008 and December 2011. We gathered a data contain 20 items including psychosocial characteristics and factors related to suicide and factors related to psychiatric treatment. Multivariate logistic regression models were fitted to data to estimate the unique effects of sex, drunken status, companion, suicidal methods, place of suicide and current use of psychiatric medication on the referral to psychiatric care. Results: The female gender(OR=1.63, 95% CI=0.99-2.69), suicidal attempts at home(OR=3.40, 95% I= 1.21-9.56) and drunken state at visit(OR=2.34, 95% CI=1.10-5.01) are the factors that predict the risk of the non-referral of the patients to psychiatric intervention. Place of suicidal attempt was the most important factor do play a role in determining whether referral to psychiatric care will take place or not. Current use of psychiatric medication showed a trend toward significance(p=0.08, OR=1.67, 95% CI=0.95-2.95). Conclusions: These results suggest that when deciding whether to adapt or to refuse the referral to psychiatric care, the factors such as suicidal intent, lethality of suicide methods, familiar factors and alcohol may contribute onto the referral to psychiatric care. Additional research is required to investigate an association of these factors with referral to psychiatric care.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.145-154
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• 2016

Because of the recent interest in the u-Health and development of IT technology, a need of utilizing a medical information data has been increased. Among previous studies that utilize various data mining algorithms for processing medical information data, there are studies of association rule analysis. In the studies, an association between the symptoms with specified diseases is the target to discover, however, infrequent terms which can be important information for a disease diagnosis are not considered in most cases. In this paper, we proposed a new association rule mining system considering the importance of each term using TF-IDF weight to consider infrequent but important items. In addition, the proposed system can predict candidate diagnoses from medical text records using term similarity analysis based on medical ontology.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.31-39
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• 2001

NMR spectroscopy enables us to measure the molar concentration of the metabolites in the organisms, and this technique is the only method to measure the concentration non-invasively. The proton NMR spectroscopy has been used to study the biochemical changes in human as well as in animal brain. MRI uses the proton densities and its relaxation times for reconstructing images, but MRS gives the biochemical changes inside the body. NMR spectroscopy could provide the information which MRI and CT could not, and this makes NMR spectroscopy more useful in diagnosing diseases. This study was tried to develop the quantitation of the molar concentration of the metabolites in the brain using the proton MR spectroscopy. The spectra of each metabolites was obtained, and the proton MR spectra was obtained from the insula gray matter areas of the 16 volunteers. And this spectra was analyzed to estimated the molar concentrations of the metabolites in the region. The results showed the very similar to those of the others.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.806-809
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• 2015

급성심근경색증은 우리나라의 3 대 응급질환으로 골든타임 내의 빠른 진단과 처치가 필요하다. 보통 급성심근경색은 질환의 특성상 관상동맥의 상태를 파악하는 것이 중요하기 때문에, 진단을 위한 지표로서 의료 영상이 활용되고 있으며 빠른 진단을 위해서는 효과적인 영상 정보 제공이 요구되는 상황이다. 하지만 기존 시스템은 영상의 형식적인 메타데이터에 의해 식별되어 중요 의료정보를 결여된 평면적인 정보 제공이 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 영상에 내재된 의미적 특징을 기반으로 한 정보 제공이 가능해진다면, 효과적인 영상 정보의 확인이 가능해진다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 급성심근경색의 신속하고 효과적인 진단을 위해, 관련 영상으로부터 의학적으로 가치있는 의료정보들의 의미적 정보를 추출함으로써 개별적인 영상에 분산되어 있던 의료 정보들을 통합하며, 직관적이고 효과적으로 의료 영상정보에 대한 파악을 가능케 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.85 no.5
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• pp.902-915
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• 2024

Pancreatic cancer is usually detected through contrast-enhanced CT and MRI. However, pancreatic cancer is occasionally overlooked because of its small size or is misdiagnosed as other conditions due to atypical imaging features that present diagnostic challenges. Considering the rapid growth and poor prognosis associated with pancreatic cancer, the ability to accurately detect and differentiate pancreatic lesions is crucial for appropriate surgical intervention. Reviewing diverse challenging cases of pancreatic cancer at an early stage and other mimicking lesions may help us accurately interpret the imaging features of pancreatic cancer on CT and MRI scans. Therefore, we aimed to illustrate various imaging features of pancreatic cancer and its mimicking lesions and provide valuable insights for differential diagnosis.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.143-161
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• 2014

While dCollections of Korea have been initiated by a government for metadata harvesting, institutional repositories of Japan have been managed as instituion's independent tool for not only collectiong, archiving and distributing their intellecture assets, but also realizing open access. This study analyzes IRDB of Japanese statistically for understanding features of institutional repositories and by clustering the repository on the basis of types of contents, the differences have been brightened. According to analysis result, Japanese repository contains diverse types of contents, such as journal articles;scholarly papers, text books and technical reports. etc. and clustered by five distinguished group with different contents type.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.289-308
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• 2024

This study investigates the collaboration networks in the field of AI-driven diagnostic medical imaging, focusing on the influence of two social capital concepts-network closure and structural holes-on research performance. The analysis reveals a highly fragmented network structure with one dominant component, while individual clusters exhibit strong internal cohesion. Both network closure, measured by density, and structural holes, assessed through efficiency, positively impact research performance, as demonstrated by QAP regression analysis. The findings highlight that, in the integration of AI into diagnostic medical imaging, robust connections among researchers are vital, and the presence of structural holes, which enable the assimilation of diverse knowledge, also significantly enhances research outcomes. This underscores the importance of fostering a well-balanced network to optimize collaboration and knowledge production in this emerging interdisciplinary field.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.95-98
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• 2010

최근 차세대 시퀀싱 기술의 급속한 발전에 따라 서열 정보의 해독이 비교적 쉬워지면서 개인별 맞춤의학의 실현에 대한 기대와 관심이 높아지고 있다. 각 개인의 서열 정보 사이에는 SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism), Indel, CNV (copy number variation) 등의 다양한 유전적 구조 변이가 존재하며, 이러한 서열 정보의 부분적 차이는 각 개인의 유전적 특성 및 질병 감수성 등과 밀접한 관련을 갖는다. 본 연구에서는 차세대 시퀀싱 결과로 산출되는 수많은 짧은 DNA 서열 조각인 리드 데이터를 이용한 SNP 추출 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 레퍼런스 시퀀스의 각 위치에 대한 리드 시퀀스의 매핑 정보를 기반으로 SNP 후보 영역을 추출하며, 품질 정보 등을 활용하여 에러 발생률을 최소화한다. 또한 대규모 시퀀싱 데이터와 SNP 구조 변이 데이터의 효율적인 저장/검색을 지원하는 시각적 분석 도구를 구현하여 제안된 방식의 유용성을 검증한다.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.51-58
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• 2001

Synchrotron radiation (SR) has several advantages over convetional x-rays, including its phase, collimation, and high flux. A synchrotron radiation beamline 5C1 at Pohang Light Source (PLS) was recently built for imaging applications. We have shown that a SR imaging system is useful in imaging microscopic structures. SR with broad-band energy spectrum were adjusted to an object by Si wafers and their energy were approximately ranging from 6 keV to 30 keV. SR were passed through an object and finally transformed into visible lights by CdWO$_4$ scintillator screen. The visible lights which were reflected at an angle of 90 degrees by gold plated mirror were detected by a CCD camera and the image data were acquired using image acquisition system. A high-resolution phantom, capacitor, adult tooth, child tooth, cancerous breast tissue, and mouse lumbar vertebra were imaged with SR imaging system. The Objects were rotated within the field of view of the CCD detector, and their projection image data were obtained at 250 steps over 180 degrees rotation. Image reconstructions were carried out in a PC by using IDLTM(Research systems, Inc., US) program. The spatial resolution of the images acquired by the SR imaging system was measured with a high-resolution chart manufactured for several micrometer resolution. The specimens were also imaged with conventional x-ray radiography system to compare the image quality of radiography obtained with the SR imaging system. The results showed more structural details and high contrast images with SR imaging system than conventional x-ray radiography system. The SR imaging system may have a potential for imaging in biological researches, material applications, and clinical radiography.

• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.42-49
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• 2019

Objectives : Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a life-saving therapy for patients with terminal liver disease. Many studies have focused on recipients rather than donors. The aim of this study was to assess the emotional status and personality characteristics of LDLT donors. Methods : We evaluated 218 subjects (126 male, 92 female) who visited Daegu Catholic University Medical Center from August 2012 to July 2018. A retrospective review of their preoperative psychological evaluation was done. We investigated epidemiological data and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 questionnaire. Subanalysis was done depending on whether subjects actually underwent surgery, relationship with the recipient, and their gender. Results : Mean age of subjects was $32.19{\pm}10.91years$. 187 subjects received LDLT surgery (actual donors) while 31 subjects didn't (potential donors). Donor-recipient relationship included husband-wife, parent-children, brother-sister etc. Subjects had statistical significance on validity scale L, F, K and all clinical scales compared to the control group. Potential donors had significant difference in F(b), F(p), K, S, Pa, AGGR, PSYC, DISC and NEGE scales compared to actual donors. F, D and NEGE scales were found to be predictive for actual donation. Subanalysis on donor-recipient relationship and gender also showed significant difference in certain scales. Conclusions : Under-reporting of psychological problems should be considered when evaluating living-liver donors. Information about the donor's overall psychosocial background, mental status and donation process should also be acquired.