• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.421-425
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• 2006

An ubiquitous healthcare system for the home care of elderly persons was designed and implemented using wireless sensor network technology. The wireless technology for home-care purpose gives new possibilities for monitoring of vital parameter with wearable biomedical sensors, and will give the patient the freedom to be mobile and still be under continuously monitoring and thereby to better quality of patient care. Emphasis is placed on recent advances in wireless ECG system for cardiac event monitoring with particular attention to arrhythmia detection in patient. This paper presents a diagnostic system for cardiac arrhythmias from ECG data, using wireless sensor technology. The system also provides an application for recording activities, events and potentially important medical symptoms. The hardware allows data to be transmitted wirelessly from on-body sensor to the base station and then to PC/PDA. Data is also transmitted to a back-end server for analysis using wireless internet connection. Experiments were conducted using the system for activity monitoring, exercise monitoring and medical screening tests and present preliminary data and results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.731-734
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• 2013

치매 환자들은 안전한 생활과 건강한 삶을 위해 행동 정보에 대한 모니터링이 필요하다. 이러한 서비스를 위해 휴대가 간편하면서 항상 착용 가능한 모니터링 도구가 필요하며, 기억과 인지장애로 인한 배회 활동과 넘어짐과 같은 응급상황에 빠르게 대처하기 위한 다양한 센서기술의 적용이 필수적이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 현재 개발 중인 치매환자를 위한 시계형 장치(스마트 시계)와 서버시스템의 구조 및 기능에 대해서 서술하면서, 3 축 가속도 센서 기반의 개선된 걸음 수 검출 알고리즘을 제안한다. 개선된 걸음 수 검출 알고리즘은 일반적인 걸음 수를 96%의 정확도로 검출함을 확인했다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.10-19
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• 2014

In recent, hospital information systems are widely used to electronically record, manage and share the data collected in hospitals. Such systems have contributed greatly to improving the work efficiency in modern hospitals, however, the collected data concerning the patients should be appropriately processed and reused to provide the healthcare service providers with decision supports. Especially, this paper proposes the patient flow monitoring system for the operations management of the outpatient department for patients with chronic diseases, and discusses the related issues. The proposed system visualizes the standard process model extracted from the patient history data and various performance measures, and this enables the managers to evaluate and enhance the operations of the outpatient clinic. In this paper, the patient flow monitoring system is applied to the rheumatology clinic, and the prototype system optimized for I-pad is illustrated.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.9-15
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• 2011

U-healthcare system has an aim to provide reliable and fast medical services for patient regardless of time and space by transmitting to doctors a large quantity of vital signs collected from sensor networks. Existing u-healthcare systems can merely monitoring patients' health status. In this paper, we describe the implementation and validation of a prototype of a u-health monitoring system based on a wireless sensor network. This system is easy to derive physiologically meaningful results by analyzing rapidly vital signs. The monitoring system sends only the abnormal data of examinee to the service provider. This technique can reduces the wireless data packet overload between a monitoring part and service provider. The real-time bio-signal monitoring system makes possible to implement u-health services and improving efficiency of medical services.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.113-116
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• 2006

최근 무선센서네트워크 기술을 이용한 다양한 시도가 이루어지고 있으며 특히 헬스케어분에서 활발히 연구되어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 무선센서노드를 이용하여 계측된 생체신호를 바탕으로 환자의 상태 및 진단을 위한 기초자료를 활용하기 위한 시스템을 구현하였다. 생체신호로 ECG(electrocardiogram)와 체온 파라미터를 사용하였으며 ECG신호의 QRS특성점을 축출하기 위해 Pan&Tomkins에 개발된 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 또한 효율적인 모니터링을 위해 비정상적인 ECG신호에 대한 알림기능을 구현하였으며 이러한 감시기능은 상시 모니터링을 하지 않고도 환자의 상태를 알 수 있게 하였다. 본 연구에서 구현된 이러한 시스템기술은 국내의 고령화 문제로 발생되는 의료비용을 크게 감소시킬 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.5-8
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• 2004

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.46-53
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• 2009

This study aims to develop a mobile-based portable u-Health Monitoring System which provides a personal medical service on demand by processing patients' data intellectually achieved through sensing technique of non-restriction/non-consciousness oriented and deciding. To do this, we composed a USN-based portable monitoring unit. It is the one, that contains a somatometry sensor which is attached to patient's body and detects bio information, a portable wireless terminal which receives information from the sensor and transmits it to monitor server, and a monitor server which interprets received data through wireless network and processes. Also, it tries to develop a non-restriction /non-consciousness oriented sensing technique which is related to glycosuria and cardiovascular diseases.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.50-59
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• 2014

In mobile healthcare service, the accurate detection and the notification of the emergency situation are important to chronic patients' life. In the existing healthcare service, the medical staff or medical service provider always judges patients' health status by monitoring from the measured from bio-data. However, it is difficult to monitor many patients in real-time simultaneously, because the medical staff should monitor the health status continuously. Furthermore, an emergency condition diagnosis based solely on the statistical level of the bio-data may be difficult, since the emergency judgment of the bio-data might differ depending on the health characteristics of each person such as age, history of disease, gender, etc. In order to solve this problem, this article presents an mobile healthcare system for emergency bio-data management using a personalized emergency policy. The salient feature of the proposed mobile healthcare system is that the characteristics of the health status of an unique patient is defined to the policy, which is used to judge the emergency condition of the bio-data measured from the patient. The prototype of proposed mobile healthcare system has been built to demonstrate the design concept.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.258-261
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• 2016

환자가 가정에서 네트워크를 통해 자신의 건강정보를 원격지에 위치한 의사에게 전송하여 이에 대한 진단을 받는 원격건강정보 모니터링 시스템에서 환자의 개인건강정보의 보호는 매우 중요한 과제이다. 본 논문에서는 신원기반 프록시 재암호화 기법을 사용하여 환자가 다수의 의사를 선택하여 각 의사들에게 개인건강정보를 전송하여 진단을 받는 환경을 가정하여 환자가 가지는 연산부담을 줄이기 위해 환자의 비밀키로 생성한 암호문을 프록시가 재암호화하여 의사가 가진 비밀키로 복호화 할 수 있도록 하는 기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.157-162
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• 2007

최근 홈 네트워크 및 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅에 대한 일반인들의 관심이 크게 증가하면서, 10m 내외의 단거리에서 사용되는 개인 무선 네트워킹 솔루션인 무선 PAN 기술이 주목받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 무선 PAN 기술 중 저속, 저가, 저전력의 무선통신 기술인 ZigBee 이용해 당뇨병 환자들을 위한 실시간 모니터링 시스템을 구현하였다. 즉, 휴대용 인슐린 펌프에 ZigBee 통신이 가능한 모듈을 장착함으로써, 인슐린 펌프에 내장된 환자의 혈당치, 인슐린 투입량 등과 같은 중요 데이터를 별도의 조작 없이 유선 클라이언트에 실시간 전송할 수 있게 된 것이다. 한편, 유선 클라이언트에 저장된 환자의 정보는 서버에 즉시 전송되며, 담당 주치의의 모니터링이 가능하도록 웹 접근성을 부여하였다. 이를 통해 환자들이 보다 안전하고 편리하게 휴대용 인슐린 펌프를 사용할 수 있도록 하였다.