• 대한간호학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.576-590
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• 1996

Advanced countries such as the USA and Japan are eagerly seeking ways to improve health and welfare of the elderly. One of the services is home health care service using the telephone. Various types of services using the telephone have been developed, improved and are being utilized ranging from the basic consulting to emergency response systems in the area of health care for the elderly. A demonstration project was launched to study the feasibility of a consulting system and telemedicine for the elderly using the public phone system in Korea. For this project, a gathering site for the elderly was selected and those who visited this place were interviewed to find out what kinds of services they wanted and what kind of system they needed to provide the required services. Based on the users' requests and the surrounding environment, a telephone consulting facility was established at the Research Institute of Nursing Science at Seoul National University and consulting personnel was recruited, trained and posted at the center. An Application program for home health care nurses to use when they visited the patients at their homes was developed. This system operates on a notebook Computer and allows nurses to communicate with a doctor at a local hospital through a modem and telecommunication line. These systems were implemented for three months and problems which developed during operation of the systems were identified and progressively modified. Through system evaluation, it was found that a consulting system using phone service will be an invaluable system for the welfare of the elderly in the future. But in order to meet the elderly's need, more services than mere consultation are needed. That is, communication with physicians and hospitals are needed. Thus, when there is any need for physicians' attention, physicians or hospitals should be contacted directly. Similarly for telemedicine, when the home health care nurse visits elderly patients she can assess the patient's problem and provide nursing care, access a physician or hospital to refer her patient to or consult directly using the telecommunication the system. The above mentioned system is a basic form of futuristic telemedicine for the elderly and those who have chronic disease problems. This kind of system will be of great value when it is used on the national information super-highways in the future. In order to get to that stage, of course, this project needs great improvement in the technical, academic, and legal aspects.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2008

TMO 구조는 시간 구동 메소드와 메시지 구동 메소드의 두 가지 형태의 메소드로 이루어져 있으며, 일정한 시간이 지남에 따라 자동적으로 수행되는 시간 구동 메소드와 객체 노드 사이의 실행 결과를 주고받을 수 있는 서비스 메시지 구동 메소드로 명확하게 구분된다. 시간 구동 메소드의 실행은 설계 시간을 설정하는 과정에 결정된 특정한 값에 의해 실시간 통신 클럭의 도착에 따라 이루어지고 반면에 서비스 구동 메소드 실행은 클라이언트로부터 메시지를 요구하는 서비스에 의해서만 실행된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 TMO 구조를 이용하여 실시간 통신 시뮬레이션 프로그래밍을 하기 위해 환자 모니터 원격진료 시스템 응용 환경에 적용하였다. Central Monitor로부터 전송되어진 환자의 생체정보 Raw Data가 HIS의 데이터 수신 모듈을 통해 사용가능한 데이터로 재구성될 수 있도록 설계가 이루어져 있다. 환자 생체정보에 대한 실시간성과 생체정보에 대한 생체정보 데이터의 연속성을 부여함으로서 베드 사이트의 환자에게서 발생된 모든 생체정보에 의해 환자 관리가 이루어진다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2021

본 연구는 서남해안 해양경찰이 이송하는 응급환자 유형과 이와 관련된 교육 및 원격의료지도의 필요성, 통신수단으로서 스마트글래스에 대한 인식과 태도를 알아보고자 31명의 해양경찰을 대상으로 수행되었다. 응급환자 유형은 출혈, 자상, 복통에서 상대적으로 높은 빈도와 훈련요구도가 확인되었다. 반면에 약물사용과 중증도 분류에 대한 원격의료지도 요구가 높았으며, 통신도구로서 스마트글래스의 활용에 대한 인지된 유용성과 태도점수는 각각 3.76±0.61점, 3.64±0.45점이었다. 스마트글래스에 대한 인지된 유용성과 태도 간 중간 정도의 상관관계가 확인되었다(r=.630, p<.01). 기술의 발전과 함께 해양경찰의 응급구조 활동의 효율성과 안전성을 높이기 위해 스마트글래스와 같은 새로운 장비의 적극적 도입과 다양한 노력이 필요한 시점이다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.230-235
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• 2009

분산 네트워크 시스템에서 실시간 객체 지향 모델 TMO를 이용하여 메시지를 실시간으로 전송하기 위해 시간 구동과 메시지 구동(TMO : Time-triggered Message-triggered Object Model)에 대한 구조를 일반적인 형태의 구조로 모델링 하였으며, 이러한 모델링은 분산된 실시간 통신 객체와 비실시간 객체를 포함하여야 한다. 메시지 구동 메소드와 시간 구동 메소드를 모든 객체 구조 형태에 적용함으로서 메시지를 실시간적으로 전송할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 TMO 구조를 이용하여 실시간 통신을 하기 위해 ICU(Intensive Care Unit)환자 모니터 원격진료 시스템 응용 환경에 적용하였다. ICU의 Central Monitor로부터 전송되어진 환자의 생체정보 Raw Data가 HIS의 TMO 파싱 데이터 수신 모듈을 통해 사용가능한 데이터로 재구성될 수 있도록 설계가 이루어져 있다.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2010

As information technology had shown tremendous development in late 20th century, various service opportunities appeared in many industries. Also, new types of service are becoming available such as, reservation, teleconsultation, telemedicine. In health care industry, in which, many hospitals are faced operational difficulties and competing impetuously, a web site has become a effective tool to attract patients and transfer tremendous health information to the patients. This study is based on many previous researches on online service quality, try to figure out e-service quality factors of health information sites, and the factors' effect on users' satisfaction on the web site via providing knowledge and trust on the web site. As a result, usability, site aesthetic, responsiveness and security are the 4 factors to measure e-service quality of health information web site. All factors except site aesthetic have significant effects on providing knowledge, security only effects on trust on the web site.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.424-433
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• 2022

As the proportion of non-contact telemedicine increases and the number of electrocardiogram (ECG) data measured using portable ECG monitors increases, the demand for automatic algorithms that can precisely analyze vast amounts of ECG is increasing. Since the P, QRS, and T waves of the ECG have different shapes depending on the location of electrodes or individual characteristics and often have similar frequency components or amplitudes, it is difficult to distinguish P, QRS and T waves and measure each parameter. In order to measure the widths, intervals and areas of P, QRS, and T waves, a new algorithm that recognizes the start and end points of each wave and automatically measures the time differences and amplitudes between each point is required. In this study, the start and end points of the P, QRS, and T waves were measured using six Deep Neural Networks (DNN) that recognize the start and end points of each wave. Then, by synthesizing the results of all DNNs, 12 parameters for ECG characteristics for each heartbeat were obtained. In the ECG waveform of 10 subjects provided by Physionet, 12 parameters were measured for each of 660 heartbeats, and the 12 parameters measured for each heartbeat well represented the characteristics of the ECG, so it was possible to distinguish them from other subjects' parameters. When the ECG data of 10 subjects were combined into one file and analyzed with the suggested algorithm, 10 types of ECG waveform were observed, and two types of ECG waveform were simultaneously observed in 5 subjects, however, it was not observed that one person had more than two types.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.288-304
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• 2019

The growth of telemedicine-based wireless communication for images-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT)-leads to the necessity of learning the concept of image compression. Over the years, the transform based and spatial based compression techniques have attracted many types of researches and achieve better results at the cost of high computational complexity. In order to overcome this, the optimization techniques are considered with the existing image compression techniques. However, it fails to preserve the original content of the diagnostic information and cause artifacts at high compression ratio. In this paper, the concept of histogram based multilevel thresholding (HMT) using entropy is appended with the optimization algorithm to compress the medical images effectively. However, the method becomes time consuming during the measurement of the randomness from the image pixel group and not suitable for medical applications. Hence, an attempt has been made in this paper to develop an HMT based image compression by utilizing the opposition based improved harmony search algorithm (OIHSA) as an optimization technique along with the entropy. Further, the enhancement of the significant information present in the medical images are improved by the proper selection of entropy and the number of thresholds chosen to reconstruct the compressed image.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.47-51
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• 2012

In highly developed society, information and communication technologies are widely used for better medical services. These information and communication technologies should be more and more acceptable in all hospitals for exchange medical records. EMR becomes more convenient than the previously used paper charts. It will be able to record medical institutions every time and dual treatment. Each is different specifications for each medical institution to use the program or document to exchange it. The personal clinic records still does not exchange well. To solve this gap between medical alienation, this paper describes the concepts of HL7-CDA and proposes types of telemedicine system. To resolve time and space constraints, new form of treatment methods presents in future directions after described about related systems. CDA enables electronic medical records to the each medical center and gradually expanded by exchanging the patient's medical records. This paper is using XML-based CDA documents as a hierarchical for medical information exchange standards compliant HL7-CDA documents. It could be possible currently used structural variety of multimedia data. Thus It is able to send and receive HL7-CDA-based medical information and clinical information to identify the medical institutions of medical information with interchange system design and building standards, and through mutual exchange of clinical information.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.4961-4964
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• 2013

Greater use of mobile phone devices seems inevitable because the health industry and cancer care are facing challenges such as resource constraints, rising care costs, the need for immediate access to healthcare data of types such as audio video texts for early detection and treatment of patients and increasing remote aids in telemedicine. Physicians, in order to study the causes of cancer, detect cancer earlier, act in prevention measures, determine the effectiveness of treatment and specify the reasons for the treatment ineffectiveness, need to access accurate, comprehensive and timely cancer data. Mobile devices provide opportunities and can play an important role in consulting, diagnosis, treatment, and quick access to health information. There easy carriage make them perfect tools for healthcare providers in cancer care management. Key factors in cancer care management systems through a mobile phone health approach must be considered such as human resources, confidentiality and privacy, legal and ethical issues, appropriate ICT and provider infrastructure and costs in general aspects and interoperability, human relationships, types of mobile devices and telecommunication related points in specific aspects. The successful implementation of mobile-based systems in cancer care management will constantly face many challenges. Hence, in applying mobile cancer care, involvement of users and considering their needs in all phases of project, providing adequate bandwidth, preparation of standard tools that provide maximum mobility and flexibility for users, decreasing obstacles to interrupt network communications, and using suitable communication protocols are essential. It is obvious that identifying and reducing barriers and strengthening the positive points will have a significant role in appropriate planning and promoting the achievements of mobile cancer care systems. The aim of this article is to explain key points which should be considered in designing appropriate mobile health systems in cancer care as an approach for improving cancer care management.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.110-116
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• 2003

Background and Objectives : Laryngeal cancer discrimination using voice signals is a non-invasive method that can carry out the examination rapidly and simply without giving discomfort to the patients. n appropriate analysis parameters and classifiers are developed, this method can be used effectively in various applications including telemedicine. This study examines voice analysis parameters used for laryngeal disease discrimination to help discriminate laryngeal diseases by voice signal analysis. The study also estimates the laryngeal cancer discrimination activity of the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier based on the statistical modelling of voice analysis parameters. Materials and Methods : The Multi-dimensional voice program (MDVP) parameters, which have been widely used for the analysis of laryngeal cancer voice, sometimes fail to analyze the voice of a laryngeal cancer patient whose cycle is seriously damaged. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop a new method that enables an analysis of high reliability for the voice signals that cannot be analyzed by the MDVP. To conduct the experiments of laryngeal cancer discrimination, the authors used three types of voices collected at the Department of Otorhinorlaryngology, Pusan National University Hospital. 50 normal males voice data, 50 voices of males with benign laryngeal diseases and 105 voices of males laryngeal cancer. In addition, the experiment also included 11 voices data of males with laryngeal cancer that cannot be analyzed by the MDVP, Only monosyllabic vowel /a/ was used as voice data. Since there were only 11 voices of laryngeal cancer patients that cannot be analyzed by the MDVP, those voices were used only for discrimination. This study examined the linear predictive cepstral coefficients (LPCC) and the met-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) that are the two major cepstrum analysis methods in the area of acoustic recognition. Results : The results showed that this met frequency scaling process was effective in acoustic recognition but not useful for laryngeal cancer discrimination. Accordingly, the linear frequency cepstral coefficients (LFCC) that excluded the met frequency scaling from the MFCC was introduced. The LFCC showed more excellent discrimination activity rather than the MFCC in predictability of laryngeal cancer. Conclusion : In conclusion, the parameters applied in this study could discriminate accurately even the terminal laryngeal cancer whose periodicity is disturbed. Also it is thought that future studies on various classification algorithms and parameters representing pathophysiology of vocal cords will make it possible to discriminate benign laryngeal diseases as well, in addition to laryngeal cancer.