• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Life Science Conference
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• 2006.09a
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• pp.39.1-39.1
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• 2006

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.132-148
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• 2013

Via the Internet, the information infrastructure of modern health care has already established medical information systems to share electronic health records among patients and health care providers. Data hiding plays an important role to protect medical images. Because modern medical devices have improved, high resolutions of medical images are provided to detect early diseases. The high quality medical images are used to recognize complicated anatomical structures such as soft tissues, muscles, and internal organs to support diagnosis of diseases. For instance, 16-bit depth medical images will provide 65,536 discrete levels to show more details of anatomical structures. In general, the feature of low utilization rate of intensity in 16-bit depth will be utilized to handle overflow/underflow problem. Nowadays, most of data hiding algorithms are still experimenting on 8-bit depth medical images. We proposed a novel reversible data hiding scheme testing on 16-bit depth CT and MRI medical image. And the peak point and zero point of a histogram are applied to embed secret message k bits without salt-and-pepper.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.167-176
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• 2004

Background: Electromagnetic fields (EMF) are ubiquitous in modern society including medical field. As the technology of medical instruments and telecommunications has developed rapidly, it has influenced on our lives in many ways. Modern medical practice requires high quality medical equipments, which have a great deal of electromagnetic interference and susceptibility. The purpose of this study were to evaluate electromagnetic condition under usual clinical condition and to suggest a practical guideline in general hospital. Materials and Methods: The actual state of the electromagnetic interference in the medical field was studied under usual clinical conditions including operating rooms, intensive care units, magnetic resonance imaging unit, and hyperthermia unit. Results: There was considerable noise as a result of electromagnetic fields from medical equipments including electrosurgical units and hyperthermia unit, and cellular phones, which could induce serious functional derangements of functioning medical devices. Conclusion: It will be necessary to evaluate the individual electromagnetic situations under various medical conditions and to define a limited zone for cellular phone as well as reposition medical equipments to secure a safer medical practice and to minimize electromagnetic interference.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.741-753
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• 2016

In the medical fields, many efforts have been made to develop and improve Hospital Information System (HIS) including Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Order Communication System (OCS), and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). However, materials generated and used in medical fields have various types and forms. The current HISs separately store and manage them by different systems, even though they relate to each other and contain redundant data. These systems are not helpful particularly in emergency where medical experts cannot check all of clinical materials in the golden time. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a process to build an integrated data model for medical information currently stored in various HISs. The proposed data model integrates vast information by focusing on medical images since they are most important materials for the diagnosis and treatment. Moreover, the model is disease-specific to consider that medical information and clinical materials including images are different by diseases. Two case studies show the feasibility and the usefulness of our proposed data model by building models about two diseases, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and ischemic stroke.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.145-153
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• 2015

Development of IT technology, in combination with the medical area, a number of developments have been made of the digital advanced medical devices, also increased interest in health, sharing of medical information has become increasingly necessary. Standardization for medical information sharing to satisfy these requirements have been studied. However, the medical information system is to build a system independent hospital itself, is difficult to share and exchange medical data with other medical institutions. In this paper, we provide a medical cloud system that can share medical information. Use DBaaS of cloud services. And is an international standard to have a HL7 share information by forming a meta-schema, each of the data transfer, the format of the document oriented data solves the heterogeneity between hospitals. Extracts the required field name of examination information, to exchange information with each of the local information and mapping. Health diagnostic information in the present study and diagnosis through accurate information sharing and exchange is possible ongoing management.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.6177-6200
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• 2018

In order to achieve the goal of protecting medical images, some existing watermark techniques for medical image protection mainly focus on improving the invisibility and robustness properties of the method, in order to prevent unnecessary medical disputes. This paper proposes a novel copyright method for medical image protection based on visual secret sharing (VSS) and cellular automata transform (CAT). This method uses the protected medical image feature as well as VSS and a watermark to produce the ownership share image (OSI). The OSI is used for medical image verification and must be registered to a certified authority. In the watermark extraction process, the suspected medical image is used to generate a master share image (MSI). The watermark can be extracted by combining the MSI and the OSI. Different from other traditional methods, the proposed method does not need to modify the medical image in order to protect the copyright of the image. Moreover, the registered OSI used to verify the ownership and its appearance display meaningful information, facilitating image management. Finally, the results of the final experiment can prove the effectiveness of our method.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.56 no.2
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• pp.753-761
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• 2024

Introduction: In this study, TLD 600 and TLD 700 pairs were used to measure the neutron dose of Elekta Precise medical linac. To this end, the optimum moderate thickness for the conversion of fast to thermal neutrons were evaluated. Materials and methods: ²⁴¹Am-Be and ²⁵²Cf sources were simulated to calculate the optimum thicknesses of the moderator for the conversion of maximum fast neutrons (FN) into thermal neutrons (TN). Pair TLDs were used to measure F&TN doses for three different field sizes at four depths of the medical linac. Results: The maximum thickness of the moderator was optimized at 6 cm. The measurement results demonstrated that the TN dose increased with the expansion of field size and depth. The FN dose, which was converted TN, exhibits behaviors comparable to the TN due to its nature. Conclusion: This study presents the optimum thickness for the moderator to convert FN into TN and measure F&TN using TLDs.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.154-164
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• 2020

Various simulator systems for surgery training have been developed and recently become more widely utilized with technology advancement and change in medical education adopting actively simulation-based training. The authors have developed tissue-instrument interaction modeling and graphical simulation algorithms for an arthroscopic surgery training simulator system. In this paper, we propose algorithms for basic surgical techniques, such as cutting, shaving, drilling, grasping, suturing and knot tying for rotator cuff surgery. The proposed method constructs a virtual 3-dimensional model from actual patient data and implements a real-time deformation of the surgical object model through interaction between ten types of arthroscopic surgical tools and a surgical object model. The implementation is based on the Simulation Open Framework Architecture (SOFA, Inria Foundation, France) and custom algorithms were implemented as pulg-in codes. Qualitative review of the developed results by physicians showed both feasibility and limitations of the system for actual use in surgery training.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.478-479
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• 2018

수부는 일상생활동작(ADL, activities of daily living)을 위한 중요 부위로 손상이나 장애가 있는 경우 재활치료를 통해 과제수행능력을 향상시킨다. 그러나 치료 과정은 주관적으로 진행되어 정확한 치료 성과를 위한 객관적 지표가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 실제 수부 움직임을 추적할 수 있는 동작인식 장비인 립모션 컨트롤러와 Unity3D로 가상공간 상에서 구현된 Box&Block Test를 이용하여 수부 움직임에 대한 객관적인 데이터를 얻었다. 기존 Box&Block Test와 제안한 모션인식과 추적에 의한 수지손상 환자용 진단 및 치료시스템의 성능을 T검정 수행한 결과 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 없음을 보였으며 수부 움직임의 정량적인 데이터를 통해 정확한 치료성과 판단의 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.480-481
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• 2018

치아는 식사 등의 일상생활에서 중요 역할을 하는 부위로 구강 건강을 지속적으로 관리하는 것이 중요하다. 최근 모바일에서는 의료 영상을 얻을 수 있을 만큼의 해상도를 갖춘 이미지를 얻을 수 있으며 디지털 의료기기로의 가능성을 보여준다. 본 연구에서는 스마트폰을 사용한 가시광선 영역의 파장대를 이용하여 치아의 초기 우식병소 진단에 도움을 받고 효율적인 관리를 할 수 있도록 하는 형광영상기반 치아분석시스템을 개발하였다. 시스템은 405 nm 파장대의 가시광선과 515 nm 이하의 단파장을 차단하는 필터를 고정하는 장치를 3D 프린터를 기술을 통해 고안 및 제작하여 스마트폰으로 치아의 영상을 얻고, 병소를 검출하여 정량적인 데이터를 제공한다. 제안한 시스템은 사용자의 시간적, 공간적 제약 없이 객관적인 데이터를 기반으로 사용자의 구강위생관리상태를 제시하여 조기진단 및 예방이 가능하다.