• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제63권6호
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• pp.673-680
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• 2020

The demineralized bone matrix (DBM) as the bone graft material to increase the fusion rate was widely used in spinal fusion. The current study aimed to compare the fusion rate of DBM to the fusion rate of autograft in lumbar spine fusion via meta-analysis of published literature. After systematic search, comparative studies were selected according to eligibility criteria. Checklist (risk of bias assessment tool for non-randomized study) was used to evaluate the risk of bias of the included nonrandomized controlled studies. The corresponding 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were calculated. We also used subgroup analysis to analyze the fusion rate of posterolateral lumbar fusion and lumbar interbody fusion. Eight studies were finally included in this meta-analysis. These eight studies included 581 patients. Among them, 337 patients underwent spinal fusion surgery using DBM (DBM group) and 204 patients underwent spinal fusion surgery with mainly autologous bone and without using DBM (control group). There was no significant differences of fusion rate between the two groups in posterolateral fusion analysis (risk ratio [RR], 1.03; 95% CI, 0.90-1.17; p=0.66) and interbody fusion analysis (RR, 1.13; 95% CI, 0.91-1.39; p=0.27). Based on the available evidence, the use of DBM with autograft in posterolateral lumbar spine fusion and lumbar interbody fusion showed a slightly higher fusion rate than that of autograft alone; however, there was no statistically different between two groups.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제58권5호
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• pp.401-411
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• 2015

More than 10 years have passed since lumbar total disc replacement (LTDR) was introduced for the first time to the world market for the surgical management of lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD). It seems like the right time to sum up the relevant results in order to understand where LTDR stands on now, and is heading forward to. The pathogenesis of DDD has been currently settled, but diagnosis and managements are still controversial. Fusion is recognized as golden standard of surgical managements but has various kinds of shortcomings. Lately, LTDR has been expected to replace fusion surgery. A great deal of LTDR reports has come out. Among them, more than 5-year follow-up prospective randomized controlled studies including USA IDE trials were expected to elucidate whether for LTDR to have therapeutic benefit compared to fusion. The results of these studies revealed that LTDR was not inferior to fusion. Most of clinical studies dealing with LTDR revealed that there was no strong evidence for preventive effect of LTDR against symptomatic degenerative changes of adjacent segment disease. LTDR does not have shortcomings associated with fusion. However, it has a potentiality of the new complications to occur, which surgeons have never experienced in fusion surgeries. Consequently, longer follow-up should be necessary as yet to confirm the maintenance of improved surgical outcome and to observe any very late complications. LTDR still may get a chance to establish itself as a substitute of fusion both nominally and virtually if it eases the concerns listed above.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.74-80
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• 2015

In cognitive radios, spectrum sensing plays an important role in accurately detecting the presence or absence of a licensed user. However, the intervention of malicious users (MUs) degrades the performance of spectrum sensing. Such users manipulate the local results and send falsified data to the data fusion center; this process is called spectrum sensing data falsification (SSDF). Thus, MUs degrade the spectrum sensing performance and increase uncertainty issues. In this paper, we propose a method based on the Hausdorff distance and a similarity measure matrix to measure the difference between the normal user evidence and the malicious user evidence. In addition, we use the Dempster-Shafer theory to combine the sets of evidence from each normal user evidence. We compare the proposed method with the k-means and Jaccard distance methods for malicious user detection. Simulation results show that the proposed method is effective against an SSDF attack.

• 한국도서관정보학회지
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.321-344
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• 2015

이 논문은 여러가지 자료를 결합해 어떤 주제에 관한 의견이 실려있는 블로그를 찾는 융합적 의견탐지방법을 소개한다. 주제에 관한 의견이 담긴 블로그를 찾기위해 이 연구는 기존의 IR 방법으로 주제에 관한 블로그를 검색한 후 여러가지 의견탐지 방법을 합산한 의견점수로 검색결과의 순위를 조정하는 방법을 쓴다. 의견탐지 모듈의 주요 구성 요소는 의견이 실려있는 블로그에 자주 나오는 단어들을 활용한 고빈도 모듈, 강한 감정을 표현하는 희귀 한 용어들을 (e.g., "sooo good") 활용한 저빈도 모듈, "I"와 "you"에 묶인 n-gram을 (e.g., I believe, You will love) 활용한 IU모듈, 윌슨의 주관 용어 목록을 바탕으로 한 윌슨의 어휘모듈, 그리고 소수의 의견 약어를 (e.g., imho) 이용한 의견 약어 모듈들 이다. 본 연구의 결과는 여러 가지 방법을 융합하는 것이 의견 검출 성능을 향상시키는데 효과적이 다는 것을 보여주었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.333-347
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• 2009

Due to structural complicacy, structural health monitoring for civil engineering needs more accurate and effectual methods of damage identification. This study aims to import multi-source information fusion (MSIF) into structural damage diagnosis to improve the validity of damage detection. Firstly, the essential theory and applied mathematic methods of MSIF are introduced. And then, the structural damage identification method based on multi-mode information fusion is put forward. Later, on the basis of a numerical simulation of a concrete continuous box beam bridge, it is obviously indicated that the improved modal strain energy method based on multi-mode information fusion has nicer sensitivity to structural initial damage and favorable robusticity to noise. Compared with the classical modal strain energy method, this damage identification method needs much less modal information to detect structural initial damage. When the noise intensity is less than or equal to 10%, this method can identify structural initial damage well and truly. In a word, this structural damage identification method based on multi-mode information fusion has better effects of structural damage identification and good practicability to actual structures.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.419-425
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 Dempster-Shafer evidence theory에 기반하여 Gaussian 질량 함수를 사용하는 융합 기법을 제안하고 있다. Dempster-Shafer 융합은 비정확성과 불확실성 measures를 각각 belief 함수와 plausibility 함수로 나타내며 이 두 함수 값 사이의 간격을 나타내는 "belief interval"에 의해 불확실성의 정도가 표현된다. 이러한 Dempster-Shafer 융합기술을 이용하여 서로 다른 센서에서 수집된 영상 자료를 융합하여 사용하여 분류 결과의 정확성을 높이고 특히 분류를 위한 매개변수를 추정하는 훈련과정에서 복합 클래스를 설정할 수 있어 단순 클래스 설정으로 인한 훈련과정이 어려움을 피할 수 있다. 이 연구에서는 경기도 용인/능평 지역에서 관측 된 KOMPSAT EOC의 범색 영상 자료와 LANDSAT ETM+의 식생지수 자료에 대해 제안된 Dempster-Shafer 융합기술을 이용하여 분류 실험을 수행하였고 분류 결과는 서로 다른 센서간의 영상자료 융합을 위한 제안된 기법의 잠재적 효과성을 보여주고 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.295-309
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• 2016

Spectrum sensing is an essential function that enables cognitive radio technology to explore spectral holes and resourcefully access them without any harmful interference to the licenses user. Spectrum sensing done by a single node is highly affected by fading and shadowing. Thus, to overcome this, cooperative spectrum sensing was introduced. Currently, the advancements in multiple antennas have given a new dimension to cognitive radio research. In this paper, we propose a multiple energy detector for cooperative spectrum sensing schemes based on the evidence theory. Also, we propose a reporting mechanism for multiple energy detectors. With our proposed system, we show that a multiple energy detector using a cooperative spectrum sensing scheme based on evidence theory increases the reliability of the system, which ultimately increases the spectrum sensing and reduces the reporting time. Also in simulation results, we show the probability of error for the proposed system. Our simulation results show that our proposed system outperforms the conventional energy detector system.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.397-402
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• 2013

다중센서를 이용한 상황인식에서 시간변화는 고려해야 하는 요소이다. 센서가 감지하여 보고한 정보를 바탕으로 상황추론에 도달하고자 하는 경우, 일정 시간 간격별로 묶어서 검토하는 것이 유용하다. 본 논문에서는 시간경과를 고려하는 클러스터링 기법을 이용한 다중센서 데이터융합을 제안한다. 각 센서별로 일정시간 간격동안 수집되어 보고된 센싱 정보를 묶어 1차 데이터융합을 실시하고 그 결과를 대상으로 다시 2차 데이터융합을 실시하였다. Dempster-Shafer이론을 이용하여 다중센서 데이터융합을 실시하고 그 결과를 분석하여 상황을 추론하는데 시간간격을 기준으로 세분화시켜 평가하고 이것을 다시 융합함으로써 향상된 상황 정보를 추론할 수 있다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.581-587
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• 2011

무선센서네트워크는 높은 수준의 상황정보를 추론할 수 있기 위해 이질적인 다중센서로 이루어질 필요가 있다. 다중센서에 의해 수집된 데이터를 상황 정보추론에 활용할 때 다중센서 데이터 융합이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 Dempster-Shafer의 증거이론에 입각하여 무선센서네트워크에서의 데이터 융합할 때 센서별 가중치를 부여하는 방안을 제안하였다. 센서별 이벤트 발생빈도수를 기준으로 하였는데, 센서별 이벤트 발생 빈도수는 해당 센서가 입수한 상황데이터의 가중치를 계산하는데 반영해야 할 요소이다. 센서별 이벤트 발생빈도에 기초하여 가중치를 계산하였으며 이 가중치를 부여하여 다중센서 데이터 융합하였을 때 신뢰도가 더욱 뚜렷한 격차를 보이게 함으로써 상황정보를 추론함에 있어서 용이할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제64권4호
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• pp.486-494
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• 2021

The growth of pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy and its progress over the years for use in post-operative bone growth has been revolutionary in its effect on bone tissue proliferation and vascular flow. However, further progress in PEMF therapy has been difficult due to lack of more evidence-based understanding of its mechanism of action. Our objective was to review the current understanding of bone growth physiology, the mechanism of PEMF therapy action along with its application in spinal surgery and associated outcomes. The authors of this review examined multiple controlled, comparative, and cohort studies to compare fusion rates of patients undergoing PEMF stimulation. Examining spinal fusion rates, a rounded comparison of post-fusion outcomes with and without bone stimulator was performed. Results showed that postoperative spinal surgery PEMF stimulation had higher rates of fusion than control groups. Though PEMF therapy was proven more effective, multiple factors contributed to difficulty in patient compliance for use. Extended timeframe of treatment and cost of treatment were the main obstacles to full compliance. This review showed that PEMF therapy presented an increased rate of recovery in patients, supporting the use of these devices as an effective post-surgical aid. Given the recent advances in the development of PEMF devices, affordability and access will be much easier suited to the patient population, allowing for more readily available treatment options.