• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.153-161
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• 2007

Stroke is the second most significant disease leading to death in Korea. The conventional therapeutic approach is mainly based on physical training, however, it usually provides the limited degree of recovery of the normal brain function. The electric stimulation therapy is a novel and candidate approach with high potential for stroke recovery. The feasibility was validated by preliminary rat experiments in which the motor function was recovered up to 80% of the normal performance level. It is thought to improve the neural plasticity of the nerve tissues around the diseased area in the stroked brain. However, there are not so much research achievements in the electric stimulation for stroke recovery as for the Parkinson's disease or Epilepsy. This study aims at the developments of a wireless variable pulse generator using ZigBee communication for future implantation into human brain. ZigBee is widely used in wireless personal area network (WPAN) and home network applications due to its low power consumption and simplicity. The developed wireless pulse generator controlled by ZigBee can generate various electric stimulations without any distortion. The electric stimulation includes monophasic and biphasic pulse with the variation of shape parameters, which can affect the level of recovery. The developed system can be used for the telerehabilitation of stroke patient by remote control of brain stimulation via ZigBee and internet. Furthermore, the ZigBee connection used in this study provides the potential neural signal transmission method for the Brain-Machine Interface (BMI).

• Biomedical Engineering Letters
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.365-371
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• 2018

Uninterrupted monitoring of multiple subjects is required for mass causality events, in hospital environment or for sports by medical technicians or physicians. Movement of subjects under monitoring requires such system to be wireless, sometimes demands multiple transmitters and a receiver as a base station and monitored parameter must not be corrupted by any noise before further diagnosis. A Bluetooth Piconet network is visualized, where each subject carries a Bluetooth transmitter module that acquires vital sign continuously and relays to Bluetooth enabled device where, further signal processing is done. In this paper, a wireless network is realized to capture ECG of two subjects performing different activities like cycling, jogging, staircase climbing at 100 Hz frequency using prototyped Bluetooth module. The paper demonstrates removal of baseline drift using Fast Fourier Transform and Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and removal of high frequency noise using moving average and S-Golay algorithm. Experimental results highlight the efficacy of the proposed work to monitor any vital sign parameters of multiple subjects simultaneously. The importance of removing baseline drift before high frequency noise removal is shown using experimental results. It is possible to use Bluetooth Piconet frame work to capture ECG simultaneously for more than two subjects. For the applications where there will be larger body movement, baseline drift removal is a major concern and hence along with wireless transmission issues, baseline drift removal before high frequency noise removal is necessary for further feature extraction.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2006

As information technologies are developing, the improvement of the quality of life becomes worldwide issues. Especially, to improve the quality of life of a patient suffering intermittent diseases, in addition to the some portable equipments for measuring, analyzing, and notifying the status of the patients, methods of communication for seamless transmission of the measured data over to the remote site, such as an emergency center or a hospital, are required. In this paper, we address a seamless transmission of patient monitoring data such as ECG from a moving patient to a remote site, wherever the patient may be. We divide the whole environments into two wireless communication environments: an indoor one based on WLAN and an outdoor one based on CDMA cellular network in which the patient is assumed to move anywhere. We develop algorithms, implement them on a PDA-based hardware platform, and show some of the results for handover between the two environments in addition to the data transmission for each of the two environments.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.465-471
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• 2007

Many hospitals have been considering new technology such as wireless sensor network(WSN). The technology can be used to track the location of medical devices needed for inspections or repairs, and it can also be used to detect of a theft of an asset. In an asset-tracking system using WSN, acquiring the location of moving sensor nodes inherently introduces uncertainty in location determination. In fact, the sensor nodes attached to an asset are prone to failure from lack of energy or from physical destruction. Therefore, even if the asset is located within the predetermined area, the asset-tracking application could "misunderstand" that an asset has escaped from the area. This paper classifies the causes of such unexpected situations into the following five cases: 1) an asset has actually escaped from a predetermined area; 2) a sensor node was broken; 3) the battery for the sensor node was totally discharged; 4) an asset went into a shadow area; 5) a sensor node was stolen. We implemented and installed our asset-tracking system in a hospital and continuously monitored the status of assets such as ventilators, syringe pumps, wheel chairs and IV poles. Based on this real experience, we suggest how to differentiate each case of location uncertainty and propose possible solutions to prevent them.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2007년도 학술대회
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• pp.381-385
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• 2007

As development of wireless communication technology has promoted mobility, Location Based Service (LBS) became embossed. The LBS is a service to recognize and utilize a location of a person or a thing through a device that ensures mobility based on wireless communication network. This paper thus researches on Healthcare Method to respond to emergency rapidly by recognizing a patient's location with the LBS. The LBS also provides location information of a user as well as remote management of organism data such as ECG data or pulse, which is transferred to a hospital or an emergency room.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.686-699
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• 1999

본 논문은 열린대학(및 열린병원) 구현을 위한 캠퍼스내(종합병원내)에서의 무선 LAN을 이용한 멀티미디어 원격교육(및 원격진료) 시스템 구현에 관한 연구이다. 본 시스템은 정보통신 기술과 멀티미디어 기술이 접목되어 개발된 시스템이다. 또한 본 시스템은 성균관대학교의 원격교육시스템을 확장한 개념이기도 하다. 또한 본 원격교육 시스템은 멀티미디어 미들웨어에 의해 실시간 상호참여형 환경과 IP multicasting을 제공하고 있다.본 시스템은 캠퍼스 내에서 AP(Access Point)을 사용한 무선 LAN과 캠퍼스와 캠퍼스 사이의 T1/E1 네트워크로 구성되어 있다. 이것은 로밍지역을 해결하기 위한 handoff와 중재를 위한 다중 브릿지을 사용함으로써 구현이 가능하다. Abstract In this paper, we propose a multimedia distance education system(or telemedicine) using a wireless LAN for an inner campus university/hospital, which is intended to implement an open university. This system is implemented by a high technology of multimedia and information communication software. Also, this system is an enhanced and expanded system of the conventional distance education of SKKU(Sung Kyun Kwan University). The structure of this system consists of a T1/E1 network(information super high way) between campuses and wireless LAN using the AP(Access Pointer) inner campus. It will be able to use a use multiple bridge for mediation and hand off to solve roaming areas. This distance education system supports a real-time collaboration environment and IP multicasting by multimedia middleware for collaboration.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.941-948
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• 2016

본 논문은 LEACH-Mobile를 사용하여 병원에서 환자들의 위치와 센서 데이터의 지속적인 수집을 시뮬레이션 하고자 한다. LEACH-Mobile(: Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)은 기존의 LEACH프로토콜에서 mobile노드를 추가하여 이동성을 향상시킨 프로토콜이다. LEACH-Mobile은 LEACH에서 이동성이 개선되었지만, 기존 LEACH보다 소모되는 에너지의 양이 더 많다. 여기서 LEACH-Mobile을 사용하는 이유는 병원의 모니터링시스템은 대체적으로 cctv나 간호사들의 주기적인 확인으로 이루어진다. 하지만 대부분의 병원은 환자수에 비해 간호사의 수가 적다. 그렇기에 간호사가 보지 못한 사이에, cctv의 사각에서 일어나는 사고에 환자가 다칠 가능성이 있다. 그래서 위치와 센서 데이터를 5개의 상황으로 지속적으로 수집하는 시뮬레이션을 하였고, 그 결과는 병원에서의 환자들의 동선 관리를 보다 효율적으로 하였다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.188-194
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• 2008

병원 무선망에서 호 수락 방식과 보다 적은 범위 셀 환경에서 QoS를 보장하기 위해 통합된 페이징과 루프 정보 관리 캐시를 사용하는 Cellular IP 특성을 가진 Cellular-IP/PRC 네트워크를 제안한다. 제안한 호 수락 방식은, 이동 노드의 홈 기지국 용량이 충분하고, 인접 셀 이동 노드가 홈 기지국에서 호가 수락되었다고 가정할 경우 받을 간섭의 증가량을 고려해 통화 품질이 보장될 때, 홈 기지국은 새로운 호를 이동 노드의 송신 전력 예측에 기반을 둔 호 수락 방식이다. 병원 무선망 내의 페이징과 라우터를 관리하기 위해 사용되었던 PC(Paging Cache)와 RC(Routing Cache)를 하나의 PRC(Paging Router Cache)로 통합 관리하고, 모든 노드 내에 구성하여 운용토록 하고, 이동 노드의 핸드오프 및 로밍 상태를 효율적으로 관리 할 수 있도록 이동 노드에 핸드오프 상태 머신을 추가하며, 노드에서 관련 기능을 수행하도록 연구한다. 시스템 환경에서 통화량에 영향을 주는 인자를 분석하고 각 링크 통화권 및 불균형 정도를 예측하여, 하향링크에 의해 통화권이 제한되었는지를 판단하여 호를 수락 또는 차단하는 알고리즘 이용 총 송수신 전력을 기반으로 제안한 알고리즘을 응용해서 QoS에서 가장 밀접하고 중요한 호 차단 확률과 호 탈락 확률, GoS(Grade of Service), 셀 용량의 효율을 예측 처리하여 QoS 성능 개선을 나타낸다.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical application of a bar code medication administration and blood transfusion system and to identify its effects from the aspect of patient safety and nurse satisfaction in a tertiary hospital. Methods: The system in this study was PDA with bar code reading capability and wireless networking function. The logs created during application of the system and administration error reports were analyzed. For nurses' satisfaction with the system, data were collected from 337 nurses using the instrument developed by Otieno et al. and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: The system application rate was 98.8%, and the main failure cases in the system application included bar code or network related factors. When the system was applied, 0.02% of errors were prevented. The nurses were satisfied with the system from the aspect of patient safety, however relatively less satisfied with the system from the aspect of work efficiency. Conclusion: The results of the study indicate the usefulness for patient safety of applying the bar code medication administration and blood transfusion system to clinical practice. However technological improvements including bar code and network communication are necessary to ensure higher work efficiency in nursing practice.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 의학적 센서 모듈과 무선 통신 기술이 결합된 멀티 에이전트 기반 원격 헬스케어 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 헬스케어 시스템은 멀리 떨어진 곳에서도 환자 모니터링, 의사의 진단과 처방, 환자와 의사, 병원 관계자 사이의 정보 교환 등 폭 넓은 서비스를 지원한다. 또한 Body Area Network(BAN)과 병원의 의사와 관계자들과 연결되며, 이에 대한 유기적이고 병원 서버의 중앙 부하를 감소시키는 확장된 JADE기반 헬스케어 시스템을 디자인하고 개발했다. 에이전트들은 센서로부터 수집된 환자의 정보를 수집, 통합, 전달하고 모바일(PDA)에 표현하기도 한다. 제안된 시스템은 모바일(PDA)과 같은 모바일 디바이스 등을 통하여 섬과 같이 병원과 멀리 떨어진 지역에서도 긴급 상황을 판단하여 원격으로 처리할 수 있다는 장점을 얻게 된다. 또한 환자(노인)의 상태를 실시간으로 모니터링 함으로써 요구되는 시간과 비용을 많이 단축하게 되고, 의료 서비스의 지원에 대한 효율성을 높이게 된다.