• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2012

심장질환과 호흡기계 질환이 증가하는 가운데 기초진료를 위한 청진기의 성능 및 효과적인 사용은 매우 중요한 과정으로 적용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 piezopolymer film을 사용하여 주위 소음을 최소화하고 5Hz까지의 저주파 대역을 수용할 수 있는 접촉형 진동센서를 개발하였고, 기존 전자청진기의 청진음보다 의사들이 익숙해 있는 청진음에 가깝도록 신호처리 기술을 적용하였다. 특히 저주파수 대역의 심음을 왜곡 없이 검출하고, 대부분의 전자청진기에서 취약한 호흡음의 질적 수준을 향상시켰으며, 블루투스를 적용하여 무선으로 송수신함으로써 u-헬스케어 환경에 적용이 가능한 전자청진시스템을 개발하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 일상생활중의 건강관리에 원격진료를 통한 의료산업 및 정보통신 산업 간의 융합기술 활성화에 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 융합신호처리학회 학술대회논문집
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• 한국신호처리시스템학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.185-188
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• 2000

Heart sound contains rich information regarding the dynamics of the heart and the auscultation has been a first choice of routine procedures for diagnosis of the heart. However, heart sounds captured using a conventional stethoscope are not often loud or clear enough for doctors to precisely classify their characteristics, especially, under the noisy environments of the hospital. A simple auscultation device that removed shortcomings of the conventional stethoscope was constructed in the study. The device employed a polymer based adherent differential output sensor which was on contact with skin through a coupling medium and appropriated electronic circuits for signal amplification and conditioning. An ordinary headphone is taken to hear the captured heart sounds and the volume can be adjusted to hear well. It is also possible that the device sends the captured heart sound signals to a PC where the signals are further processed and viualized.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.41-47
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 기존의 청진기를 대체할 수 있으며, 멀티미디어 PC에 연결할 경우 청진음의 저장이 가능하여 병원에 직접 방문하지 않고 가정에서 청진음을 저장하고 초고속 통신망을 통해 병원에 전송함으로써 가정에서도 쉽게 정기적인 검진이 가능한 홈 헬스케어를 위한 무구속 정자청진 모듈을 개발하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 저잡음, 고이득, 저전력 그리고 저전압 구동의 특징을 갖도록 전자청진기용 증폭기를 설계하였으며, 제작된 전자청진 회로를 이용하여 심음 측정에 중요한 요소로 판단되는 집음기를 재질, 크기별로 제작하여 테스트 하였다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.3-7
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 팔뚝 전자혈압계의 코로트코프 음을 디지털로 검출하는 신호검출회로 장치를 개발하였다. 본 연구에서 개발한 혈압계의 코로트코프 음 신호검출회로를 실험하기 위하여 기존의 팔뚝 전자혈압계 (Model: SE-7000, Korea)와 개발한 전자회로의 수축기 혈압과 이완기 혈압을 측정하여 비교 분석하였다. 실험을 위한 장비는 암형 커프, 청진기, 증폭기 및 A/D보드장착 PC 등으로 구성하였다. 본 연구 결과에서 코로트코프 음 신호는 기존의 팔뚝 전자혈압계에서 검출하는 오실로메트릭 신호 검출 패턴과 비슷한 경향을 보였다. 수은 혈압계와 차이에 의한 결과에서 코로트코프 음과 오실로메트릭 신호를 비교하면 수축기 혈압은 $6.75{\pm}2.02mmHg$로 나타났고, 이완기 혈압은 $7.24{\pm}3.40mmHg$ 로 나타났다. 코로트코프 음 신호를 이용한 혈압 측정치가 정밀하게 검출된다면, 기존의 팔뚝 전자혈압계를 정밀하게 검출 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.293-301
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• 2020

Consultation with the patient and doctor is very important in the examination. However, if the consultation cannot be done directly, such as corona virus, it is difficult for the doctor to determine the patient's condition more accurately. Recently, an image counseling system has been developed based on the Internet, but in the case of heart disease, remote medical counseling cannot be performed because it is not possible to stethoscope the heart sounds remotely. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to develop an interactive mobile robot capable of remote medical consultation, and a doctor and a patient should be able to set a planting sound during consultation and transmit it in real time. In this paper, we developed a robot that can remotely control a medical counseling robot to move to a hospital room where patients are hospitalized, and to consult a patient in the room remotely from a doctor's office. A remote medical imaging stethoscope system for real-time heart sound transmission is presented. The proposed system is a kind of P2P communication that transmits video information, audio information, and control signal independently through webRTC platform, so that there is no data loss. Consults and sees doctors in real time and finds it more effective than traditional methods for patient security. The system implemented in this paper will be able to perform remote medical care in the place where the spread of diseases between humans like the recent corona 19 as well as the remote medical care of heart disease patients in the future.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.276-283
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• 2015

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to report bowel sound patterns recorded in 3 diseases associated with structural deformity of the pylorus-duodenum. Methods: : Bowel sound recording is a useful non-invasive tool for the evaluation of gastrointestinal motility. However, the difficulty in manual attachment of the electronic stethoscope on the abdominal wall and noise production against bowel sound signals have prohibited its widespread use. Therefore, I developed a new apparatus that eliminates the noise; it contains a sound absorbing device and a holder for the head of stethoscope. Using the new bowel sound recording system, bowel sounds of the patients were recorded repeatedly. The endoscopic and abdominal computed tomography findings were obtained from other hospitals' medical record, and all patients were confirmed to have structural deformity in the pylorus-duodenum. The records of each patient were compared and assessed. Results: : Patients had either duodenal ulcer scar, pyloric stricture, or far advanced malignant stomach cancer, as diagnosed by the gastroscopy. Their dominant frequency of bowel sound obtained from the new system was checked more than 2 times at regular intervals. All 8 recordings in the 2 patients with duodenal ulcer scar (5 times) or pyloric stricture (3 times) showed a decrease in postprandial than fasting dominant frequency. One patient with stomach cancer showed no significant change between postprandial and fasting states at 2 recordings. Conclusions: The analysis of dominant frequency in bowel sounds can indicate the existence of pyloric obstruction that could delay gastric emptying.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.310-312
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• 2004

The aim of this study was to analyze the characteristics of knee joint sound in frequency domain and classify the knee joint diseases. The spectral analysis of knee joint sounds was performed using LPC(Linear Predictive Coding) and Wigner-Ville distribution. Ten normal subjects and 5 patients with meniscal tearing were enrolled. Each subject was seated on a chair and underwent active knee flexion and extension for 60 seconds. Sampling frequency was 10kHz and electronic stethoscope and electro-goniometer were applied during the knee motion for data collection. The spectral analysis showed 3 peaks in both groups and the difference energy distribution in time-frequency domain. These results suggest that the diagnosis of knee joint pathology using the auscultation could be easier and more correct.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.167-174
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• 2002

This study describes a fetal heart rate(FHR) estimation algorithm using phonogram. Using a phonogram amplifier, various fetal heart sounds are collected in a university hospital. The FHR estimation algorithms consists of a lowpass filter, decimation, envelop detection, pitch detection, and post-processing. The post-processing is the FHR decision procedure using all informations of fetal heart rates. Using the algorithm and other parameters of fetal heart sound, a fetal monitoring software was developed. This can display the original signals, the FFT spectra, FHR and its trajectory. Even though the fetal phonogram amplifier detects the fetal heart sounds well, the sound quality is not so good as the ultrasonography. In case of very week fetal heart sound, autocorrelation of it showed clear periodicity. But two main peaks in one period is an obstacle in pitch detection and peaks are not so vivid. The proposed FHR estimation algorithm showed very accurate and stable results. Since the developed software displays multiple parameters in real time and has convenient functions, it will be useful for the phonogram-style fetal monitoring device.

• 센서학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.249-254
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• 2020

It is difficult to control children who exhibit negative behavior in dental clinics. Various methods are used for preventing pediatric dental patients from being afraid and for eliminating the factors that cause psychological anxiety. However, when it is difficult to apply this routine behavioral control technique, sedation therapy is used to provide quality treatment. When the sleep anesthesia treatment is performed at the dentist's clinic, it is challenging to identify emergencies using the current breath detection method. When a dentist treats a patient that is under the influence of an anesthetic, the patient is unconscious and cannot immediately respond, even if the airway is blocked, which can cause unstable breathing or even death in severe cases. During emergencies, respiratory instability is not easily detected with first aid using conventional methods owing to time lag or noise from medical devices. Therefore, abnormal breathing needs to be evaluated in real-time using an intuitive method. In this paper, we propose a method for identifying abnormal breathing in real-time using an intuitive method. Respiration signals were measured using a 3M Littman electronic stethoscope when the patient's posture was supine. The characteristics of the signals were analyzed by applying the signal processing theory to distinguish abnormal breathing from normal breathing. By applying a short-time Fourier transform to the respiratory signals, the frequency range for each patient was found to be different, and the frequency of abnormal breathing was distributed across a broader range than that of normal breathing. From the wavelet transform, time-frequency information could be identified simultaneously, and the change in the amplitude with the time could also be determined. When the difference between the amplitude of normal breathing and abnormal breathing in the time domain was very large, abnormal breathing could be identified.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.221-228
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• 2018

이 연구의 목적은 해상에서 발생한 환자에게 최상의 의료서비스를 제공하기 위하여 해양원격진료시스템을 설계하고 구현하는데 있다. 이를 위하여 해상원격 진료에 필요한 통신경로인 인마셋(INMARSAT)과 엠베스트(MVAST)를 고찰하여 해양통신경로에 다양성을 제시하고 스마트 기기와 진찰용 의료기기를 연동하여 해양원격진료를 가능하게 구현하였다. 해양원격진료시스템은 HTTP를 채택하여 웹서버를 구성하고 클라이언트 요청을 처리하도록 하였으며, 안드로이드패드용 어플리케이션을 이용하여 환자의 차트 정보를 입력하고 진단용 블루투스 전자청진기를 이용하여 환자를 진단하도록 하였다. 본 시스템은 해상의 응급환자에게 적절한 대처를 하여 의료서비스를 향상시킬 수 있으며 향후 다양한 의료장비와의 연동을 통해 효과적인 의료지원시스템으로서의 가능성이 클 것으로 기대된다.