• Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.614-627
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• 2018

Background/Aims Although functional abdominal pain disorders (FAPDs) are common in children, the accurate pathogenesis of FAPDs is not known yet. Micro-inflammation, particularly tissue eosinophilia of gastrointestinal (GI) tract, has been suggested as the pathophysiology observed in several GI disorders. We aimed to evaluate eosinophilic infiltration throughout the entire GI tract in children with FAPDs, compared to those with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and to normal reference values. Methods We included 56 children with FAPDs, 52 children with Crohn's disease, and 23 children with ulcerative colitis. All subjects underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopic and colonoscopic examination with biopsies. Tissue eosinophil counts were assessed in 10 regions throughout the GI tract. Results Eosinophil counts of the gastric antrum, duodenum, terminal ileum, cecum, and ascending colon were significantly higher in children with FAPDs compared to normal reference values. Eosinophil counts of the stomach and the entire colon were observed to be significantly higher in children with IBD than in those with FAPDs. Even after selecting macroscopically uninvolved GI segments on endoscopy in children with IBD, eosinophil counts of the gastric body, cecum, descending colon, sigmoid colon, and the rectum were also significantly higher in children with IBD than those with FAPDs. Conclusions Significantly high eosinophil counts of the stomach and colon were observed in the order of IBD, followed by FAPDs, and normal controls, regardless of endoscopically detected macroscopic IBD lesions in children. This suggests some contribution of GI tract eosinophils in the intrinsic pathogenesis of FAPDs in children.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.361-377
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• 2019

The stiffness of shape memory alloy (SMA) spring while in actuation is represented by an empirical model that is derived from the logistic differential equation. This model correlates the stiffness to the alloy temperature and the functionality of SMA spring as active variable stiffness actuator (VSA) is analyzed based on factors that are the input conditions (activation current, duty cycle and excitation frequency) and operating conditions (pre-stress and mechanical connection). The model parameters are estimated by adopting the nonlinear least square method, henceforth, the model is validated experimentally. The average correlation factor of 0.95 between the model response and experimental results validates the proposed model. In furtherance, the justification is augmented from the comparison with existing stiffness models (logistic curve model and polynomial model). The important distinction from several observations regarding the comparison of the model prediction with the experimental states that it is more superior, flexible and adaptable than the existing. The nature of stiffness variation in the SMA spring is assessed also from the Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMTA), which as well proves the proposal. This model advances the ability to use SMA integrated mechanism for enhanced variable stiffness actuation. The investigation proves that the stiffness of SMA spring may be altered under controlled conditions.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.208-216
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• 2020

With the spread of smart manufacturing, one of the key topics of the 4th industrial revolution, manufacturing systems are moving beyond automation to smartization using artificial intelligence. In particular, in the existing automatic machining, a number of machining defects and non-processing occur due to tool damage or severe wear, resulting in a decrease in productivity and an increase in quality defect rates. Therefore, it is important to measure and predict tool life. In this paper, ν-ASVR (ν-Asymmetric Support Vector Regression), which considers the asymmetry of ⲉ-tube and the asymmetry of penalties for data out of ⲉ-tube, was proposed and applied to the tool wear prediction problem. In the case of tool wear, if the predicted value of the tool wear amount is smaller than the actual value (under-estimation), product failure may occur due to tool damage or wear. Therefore, it can be said that ν-ASVR is suitable because it is necessary to overestimate. It is shown that even when adjusting the asymmetry of ⲉ-tube and the asymmetry of penalties for data out of ⲉ-tube, the ratio of the number of data belonging to ⲉ-tube can be adjusted with ν. Experiments are performed to compare the accuracy of various kernel functions such as linear, polynomial. RBF (radialbasis function), sigmoid, The best result isthe use of the RBF kernel in all cases

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.1257-1265
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• 2022

Recognition of sign language is challenging due to the occlusion of hands, accuracy of hand gestures, and high computational costs. In recent years, deep learning techniques have made significant advances in this field. Although these methods are larger and more complex, they cannot manage long-term sequential data and lack the ability to capture useful information through efficient information processing with faster convergence. In order to overcome these challenges, we propose a word-level sign language recognition (SLR) system that combines a real-time human pose detection library with the minimized version of the gated recurrent unit (GRU) model. Each gate unit is optimized by discarding the depth-weighted reset gate in GRU cells and considering only current input. Furthermore, we use sigmoid rather than hyperbolic tangent activation in standard GRUs due to performance loss associated with the former in deeper networks. Experimental results demonstrate that our pose-based optimized GRU (Pose-OGRU) outperforms the standard GRU model in terms of prediction accuracy, convergency, and information processing capability.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.101-106
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• 2022

Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a hypercoagulable state in which children are at risk of venous thromboembolism. A higher risk has been reported in children with steroid-resistant NS than in those with steroid-sensitive NS. The mortality rate of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is approximately 10% and generally results from cerebral herniation in the acute phase and an underlying disorder in the chronic phase. Our patient initially manifested as a child with massive proteinuria and generalized edema. He was treated with albumin replacement and diuretics, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, and deflazacort. Non-contrast computed tomography showed areas of hyperattenuation in the superior sagittal sinus when he complained of severe headache and vomiting. Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging revealed empty delta signs in the superior sagittal, lateral transverse, and sigmoid sinuses, suggesting acute CVST. Immediate anticoagulation therapy was started with unfractionated heparin, antithrombin III replacement, and continuous antiproteinuric treatment. The current report describes a life-threatening CVST in a child with steroid-dependent NS, initially diagnosed by contrast non-enhanced computed tomography and subsequently confirmed by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, followed by magnetic resonance venography for recanalization, addressing successful treatment.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.65 no.3
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• pp.627-637
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• 2023

As the population and income levels rise, meat consumption steadily increases annually. However, the number of farms and farmers producing meat decrease during the same period, reducing meat sufficiency. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has begun to be applied to reduce labor and production costs of livestock farms and improve productivity. This technology can be used for rapid pregnancy diagnosis of sows; the location and size of the gestation sacs of sows are directly related to the productivity of the farm. In this study, a system proposes to determine the number of gestation sacs of sows from ultrasound images. The system used the YOLOv7-E6E model, changing the activation function from sigmoid-weighted linear unit (SiLU) to a multi-activation function (SiLU + Mish). Also, the upsampling method was modified from nearest to bicubic to improve performance. The model trained with the original model using the original data achieved mean average precision of 86.3%. When the proposed multi-activation function, upsampling, and AutoAugment were applied, the performance improved by 0.3%, 0.9%, and 0.9%, respectively. When all three proposed methods were simultaneously applied, a significant performance improvement of 3.5% to 89.8% was achieved.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.01a
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• pp.217-218
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 다층 퍼셉트론을 활용하여 League of Legends 게임의 승패를 예측하는 Deep Neural Network 프로그램을 설계하는 방법을 제안한다. 연구 방법으로 한국 서버의 챌린저 리그에서 행해진 약 26000 경기 데이터 셋을 분석하여, 경기 도중 15분 데이터 중 드래곤 처치 수, 챔피언 레벨, 정령, 타워 처치 수가 게임 결과에 유의미한 영향을 끼치는 것을 확인하였다. 모델 설계는 softmax 함수보다 sigmoid 함수를 사용했을 때 더 높은 정확도를 얻을 수 있었다. 실제 LOL의 프로 게임 16경기를 예측한 결과 93.75%의 정확도를 도출했다. 게임 평균시간이 34분인 것을 고려하였을 때, 게임 중반 정도에 게임의 승패를 예측할 수 있음이 증명되었다. 본 논문에서 설계한 이 프로그램은 전 세계 E-sports 프로리그의 승패예측과 프로팀의 유용한 훈련지표로 활용 가능하다고 사료된다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2020.10a
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• pp.184-187
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• 2020

다중 지문 기계독해는 질문과 여러 개의 지문을 입력받고 입력된 지문들에서 추출된 정답 중에 하나의 정답을 출력하는 문제이다. 다중 지문 기계독해에서는 정답이 있을 단락을 선택하는 순위화 방법에 따라서 성능이 크게 달라질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 단락 안에 정답이 있을 확률을 예측하는 단락 재순위화 모델과 선택된 단락에서 서술형 정답을 위한 세부적인 정답의 경계를 예측하는 세부 단락 선별 기법을 제안한다. 단락 순위화 모델 학습의 경우 모델 학습을 위해 각 단락의 출력에 softmax와 cross-entroy를 이용한 손실 값과 sigmoid와 평균 제곱 오차의 손실 값을 함께 학습하고 키워드 매칭을 함께 적용했을 때 KorQuAD 2.0의 개발셋에서 상위 1개 단락, 3개 단락, 5개 단락에서 각각 82.3%, 94.5%, 97.0%의 재현율을 보였다. 세부 단락 선별 모델의 경우 입력된 두 단락을 비교하는 duoBERT를 이용했을 때 KorQuAD 2.0의 개발셋에서 F1 83.0%의 성능을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.60-60
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 적설 추정 알고리즘과 추계 일기 생성 모형을 활용하여 관측 적설의 특성을 재현하는 연속 적설심 자료 모의 방법을 소개한다. 적설 추정 알고리즘은 강수 유형 판단, Snow Ratio 추정, 그리고 적설 깊이 감소량 추정까지 총 3단계로 구성된다. 먼저 강수 발생시 지상기온과 상대습도를 지표로 활용하여 강수 유형을 판단하고, 강수가 적설로 판별되었을 때 강수량을 신적설심으로 환산하는 Snow Ratio를 추정한다. Snow Ratio는 지상 기온과의 sigmoid 함수 회귀분석을 통해 추정하였으며, precipitation rate 조건(5 mm/3hr 미만 및 이상)에 따라 두 가지 함수를 적용하였다. 마지막으로 적설 깊이 감소량은 온도 지표 snowmelt 식을 이용하여 추정하였으며, 매개변수는 적설 깊이 및 온도 관측 자료를 활용하여 보정하였다. 속초 관측소 자료를 활용하여 매개변수를 보정 및 검증하여 높은 NSE(보정기간 : 0.8671, 검증기간 : 0.7432)를 달성하였으며, 이 알고리즘을 추계 일기 생성 모형으로 모의한 합성 기상 자료(강수량, 지상기온, 습도)에 적용하여 합성 적설심 시계열을 모의하였다. 모의 자료는 관측 자료의 통계 및 극한값을 매우 정확하게 재현하였으며, 현행 건축구조기준과도 일치하는 것으로 나타났다. 이 모형을 통하여 적설 위험 분석 분야뿐 아니라 기후 전망 자료와의 결합, 미계측 지역에 대한 자료 모의 등에도 광범위하게 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.01a
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• pp.315-316
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 딥러닝을 활용하여 KBO (Korea Baseball Organization)의 다음 시즌 플레이오프 진출 확률을 예측하는 Deep Neural Network (DNN) 시스템을 설계하고 구현하는 방법을 제안한다. 연구 방법으로 KBO 각 시즌별 데이터를 1999년도 데이터부터 수집하여 분석한 결과, 각 시즌 데이터 중 경기당 평균 득점, 타자 OPS, 투수 WHIP 등이 시즌 결과에 유의미한 영향을 끼치는 것을 확인하였다. 모델 설계는 linear, softmax 함수를 사용하는 것보다 relu, tanh, sigmoid 함수를 사용했을 때 더 높은 정확도를 얻을 수 있었다. 실제 2022 시즌 결과를 예측한 결과 88%의 정확도를 도출했다. 폭투의 수, 피홈런 등 가중치가 높은 변수의 값이 우수할 경우 시즌 결과가 좋게 나온다는 것이 증명되었다. 본 논문에서 설계한 이 시스템은 KBO 구단만이 아닌 모든 야구단에서 선수단을 구성하는데 활용 가능하다고 사료된다.