• 한국감성과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국감성과학회 2009년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.148-151
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 광섬유를 이용하여 반사형과 투과형의 MR-Compatible Photoplethysmograph (PPG) 측정 시스템을 개발하고, 그 성능을 비교하고자 한다. 반사형 타입은 광섬유 다발의 끝단을 피부에 접촉 시킨 후 반사현상을 이용하여 PPG 신호를 측정하고, 투과형 타입은 광섬유 사이에 피부를 접촉시킨 후 투과현상을 이용하여 PPG 신호를 계측한다. PPG 측정 시스템은 광 신호를 검출하는 센서 부분, 근적외선 광 신호를 송수신하는 광케이블 부분, 신호 증폭 부분, 잡음 제거를 위한 필터부분으로 구성되어 있다. 반사형 및 투과형 PPG 신호의 SNR을 비교한 결과 반사형은 23.5dB이고 투과형은 22.2dB로 차이가 거의 없었다. 그러므로 실험 환경이나 목적에 따라 두 가지 타입 중 효율성이 좀 더 높은 것을 선택하여 사용할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.201-204
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• 2010

In the mobile healthcare system, a very important vital sign in analyzing the status of user health is the HRV (heart rate variability). The used signals for measuring the HRV are electrocardiograph and PPG (photoplethysmograph). In extracting the HRV from the PPG signal, an important issue is that extract the exactly HRV from PPG signal distorted from the user's movements. This study suggested a design method of the Kalman filter to solve the problem, and evaluated the performances of a proposed method by PPG signals containing motion artifacts. In the results of experiments that compared with a variable step size adaptive filter proposed in recently, the proposed method showed better performance than an adaptive filter.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.138-141
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• 2006

Blood flow is one of vital signals related to human physiological information. Photoplethysmograph (PPG) has been used to measure indirectly heart rate, blood oxygen saturation ($SpO_2$), and so on. Because PPG signal is weak and sensitive to motion artifacts, it is very important to continuously obtain stable PPG signal during free movement. In this study, we applied the scaled Fourier linear combiner (SFLC) using both the adaptive filter and FLC to remove effectively the motion artifacts as well as background noise in the real time without additional signal correlated with motion from a accelerometer. The proposed method would be useful to reduce the movement and background noise which are not synchronized with heart rate.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.146-153
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• 2009

One of the most important issues in the wearable healthcare sensors is to minimize the motion artifacts in the vital signals for continuous monitoring. This paper presents a reflected type photoplethysmograph (PPG) sensor for monitoring heart rates at the artery of the wrist. Active noise cancellation algorithm was applied to compensate the distorted signals by motions with Least Mean Square (LMS) adaptive filter algorithms, using acceleration signals from a MEMS accelerometer. Experiments with a watch type PPG sensor were performed to validate the proposed algorithm during typical daily motions such as walking and running. The developed sensor is suitable for ubiquitous healthcare system and monitoring vital arterial signals during surgery.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.259-262
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• 2011

Compared to acupuncture, the pulsed magnetic field (PMF) stimulus is a useful tool for treatment of many physical conditions and health maintenance due to its advantages as a noninvasive and nontoxic medical treatment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of PMF stimulus direction at PC9 on the alpha activity of electroencephalogram (EEG) and vascular aging calculated from photoplethysmograph (PPG). It can be concluded that the direction of PMF stimulus affects the increase of alpha activity of EEG and PPG, indicating the vascular stiffness and the sclerosis level of blood vessels weakly relevant to the direction of PMF stimulus.

• 센서학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2010

This paper describes a real time reliable monitoring method and analysis system using wrist type oximeter for ubiquitous healthcare service based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard. Photoplethysmograph(PPG) is simple and cost effective technique to measure blood volume change. In order to obtain and monitor physiological body signals continuously, a small size and low power consumption wrist type oximeter is designed for the measurement of oxygen saturation of a patient unobtrusively. The measured data is transferred to a central PC or server computer by using wireless sensor nodes in wireless sensor network for storage and analysis purposes. LabVIEW server program is designed to monitor stress indicator from heart rate variability(HRV) and process the measured PPG to accelerated plethysmograph(APG) by appling second order derivatives in server PC. These experimental results demonstrate that APG can precisely describe the features of an individual's PPG and be used as estimation of vascular elasticity for blood circulation.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.691-697
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• 2013

최근 IT+BT 융합 기술로 건강관리 및 응급의료 등을 위하여 U-헬스케어 단말 장치가 개발되고 상품화가 되고 있다. 이 단말기에서 측정하는 생체 신호들은 심전도, 체온, 산소포화도, 심박수, 호흡 등이며, 특히 이들 신호 중에 광용적맥파(PPG) 신호는 산소포화도와 심박수, 말초혈관 탄성도 등을 측정함에 있어 매우 중요한 신호이다. 그러나 이 PPG 신호는 환자 또는 사용자의 움직임에 따라 발생하는 동잡음의 영향에 의해 그 정밀도가 저하된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이러한 동잡음을 제거하기 위한 광변조 기법과 ICA 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법의 성능을 분석하기 위해 다양한 잡음을 인위적으로 가하여 실험하였으며, 실험 결과를 분석한 결과에서 제안된 기법이 기존의 적응 필터법 보다 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.170-175
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• 2010

A method of measuring heart rate using photoplethysmograph(PPG) signal during exercise is proposed. PPG's are composed of strong base tones and their harmonics, and the strong base tones are trackable by the adaptive notch filter (ANF) which adjusts its coefficients to minimize the output power. The proposed heart rate measurement algorithm continuously notches the frequency component with the maximum power in the measured PPG, so that the fundamental frequency corresponding to heart rate is traced. We also presents methods of detecting degeneration and impulsive noise blocks to minimize the coefficient fluctuation. Experiments were conducted using real PPG signals captured during exercise. Results showed that the proposed algorithm is capable of consistently tracking the heart rate embedded in the noisy PPG's.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.130-135
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• 2012

요골동맥의 중심인 "관" 위치에 영구자석을 붙인 후 바로 위쪽에 자성측정용 반도체 홀소자를 장착하여 전압 신호를 검출하는 하드웨어 시스템이 적용된 집게형 맥진기 시제품을 개발하였다. 집게형 맥진기와 용적맥파계를 동시 분석하는 시스템으로 20대 나이 임상참가자 40명 각각에 대한 맥진파형과 용적맥파형 두 피크값을 비교 측정한 결과 혈류속도가 평균 0.8 m/s로 기존 값과 거의 비슷하였다. 이로써 요골동맥파형-용적맥파형을 환자감시장치에서 제시하는 주요 임상의 주요값으로 적용할 수 있음을 제시하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.220-223
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• 2011

Respiration signal of the vital signs is an important parameter in clinical parts. To extract the respiration signal from PPG signal for mobile healthcare system is difficult because the bands of the motion artifacts and respiration in the frequency domain are overlapped. This study to improve this problem suggested a respiration extraction method using the independent component analysis and evaluated its performances. In results of evaluation, the ICA method showed better performance than LPF suggested recently.