• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.4473-4482
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• 2010

The examination of pulse, which is a typical palpation technique in the oriental medicine, has been used conventional analog system for discrimination of 28 pulses. However, the clipping phenomenon in the pulses, which used same feature extraction technique with ECG signals, has been occurred in analog system due to feature extraction method and over amplification from the input signals. It caused inaccurate to analyze the pulse signals. In this paper, we propose a digital filter design technique based on Prony's method for signal modeling and C-spline interpolation for feature extraction from pulse signal to compensate analog pulse detection system. In addition, we suggest a compensated electronic pulse detection system comprising new pulse analyzing algorithm and shape analysis technique for pulses, which were difficult to use in analog system. The feasibility for new proposed system has been confirmed comparing output signals between electronic pulse detection system having proposed filter design techniques with pulse analyzing algorithm and conventional analog system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.879-881
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• 2016

비침습적 맥파측정은 일상생활에서 손쉽게 활용이 가능하며 맥파신호의 계측을 통하여 건강모니터링을 함으로서 사용자의 지속적인 건강관리에 도움이 된다. 일반적인 맥파 측정을 위해선 경동맥, 대퇴골, 요골 동맥을 포함 만져서 할 수 있는 동맥에서 측정되거나 맥파 측정장비를 사용하여 측정하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 실시간 맥파측정과 병행하여 산소포화도의 모니터링을 위해 손목착용형 시스템을 구현하고 산소포화도의 추정 정확도를 높이기 위하여 광보정기법을 적용하였다. 실제 자연광 상태에서의 측정된 신호를 이용하여 광보정기법을 적용한 산소포화도 모니터링 기법을 적용하고 그 성능평가를 수행하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.105-111
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• 2012

Photoplethysmogram is widely used to measure heart rate and arterial blood oxygen saturation in human. This paper describes implementation a photoplethysmography monitoring system that uses 780nm and 940nm length infrared light in radial artery. That system used combinations of 8 LEDs and 2 photoelectricities. When recorded on the skin over radial artery, the radial pulse wave was inverted. The mechanism of inverted pulse wave skin, which was reduced during systolic period and increase during diastolic period of the cardiac cycle. Through this system, we discovered optimal environments and combinations of sensors in both penetration type and reflection type. These results suggest that radial arterial wall way reflect infrared ray.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.197-202
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• 1998

The human pulse wave is a vital biosignal that includes the diagnostic data related with the heart and the cardiovascular system of human body. Based on the mechanical transducing method, a pulse detection transducer using optical fiber was developed to acquire the pulses non-invasively. To improve the detection efficiency, we proposed a new design that consists of two combinational parts; detecting part, which is in contact with the pulsating skin and transmits the displacement motion of the pulsating skin to the sensing part, and sensing part, which converts the physical quantity transmitted from the detecting part to electronic signal. By using the new method, we confirmed that the proposed transducer can detect the C point(incisura) and the T wave(tidal wave) which is not easily detected by existing transducers.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.981-986
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• 2011

In this paper, the module for measuring SpO2 and PPG(Photo Plethysmo Graphy) signal of human body and the module for wireless communication of these bio-signals to PC were developed. The program was developed to display transmitted SpO2 and PPG signal by various type data and graph without information loss during a emergency transfer. This system can be utilized as appropriate for remote medical care and a new market is expected, to be created according to revision of medical law.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.949-951
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• 2015

본 연구는 맥파속도를 측정 하는데 간단한 방법으로 1채널 심전도 데이터와 4채널 광전식 용적맥파를 이용하여 취득한 데이터를 분석하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 심전도의 R 피크점과 좌우 지첨, 족첨에서 발생하는 4 채널 맥파신호간 시간차를 이용하여 맥파 전달시간을 구하고 팔, 다리 길이로 나눠서 맥파전달속도를 구한다. 알고리즘은 심전도 R 피크점 검출, 4 채널 맥파에서의 피크점 검출 이후 검출된 피크정보를 이용하여 맥파의 시작지점인 기시점을 검출하는 간단한 방법을 개발하였고, 4 가지 맥파형태에 검출알고리즘을 적용하여 검증 하였다. 본 연구에서 개발한 방법으로 간단히 맥파속도를 측정하여 동맥경화나 고혈압, 당뇨 등 심혈관 관련 연구의 기반이 될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.14-21
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• 2010

For the ubiquitous healthcare environment, real-time measurement of biomedical signals and accuracy of the measured biomedical information are very important. In addition, it is important to develop a healthcare device with low power In this paper, the synchronized pulse in a heartbeat was detected from the radial artery using the piezo film sensor, in order to eliminate inconvenience to wear a pulse detection finger probe. We can get a best output after applying the adaptive noise canceller using two piezo film sensor signals, pulse signal having motion artifacts and motion artifacts reference signal. To detect heartbeat, we use maximum point detection method from pulse removed motion artifacts.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.4021-4030
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• 2015

Pulse wave is the physiological responses through the autonomic nervous system such as ECG. It is relatively convenient because it can measure the signal just by applying a sensor on a finger. So, it can be usefully employed in the field of U-Healthcare. The objects of this study are acquiring the PPG (Photoplethysmography) one of the way of measuring the pulse waves in non-invasive way using the CMOS image sensor on a smartphone camera, developing the portable system judging stressful or not, and confirming the applicability in the field of u-Healthcare. PPG was acquired by using image data from smartphone camera without separate sensors and analyzed. Also, with that image signal data, HRV (Heart Rate Variability) and stress index were offered users by just using smartphone without separate host equipment. In addition, the reliability and accuracy of acquired data were improved by developing additional hardware device. From these experiments, we can confirm that measuring heart rate through the PPG, and the stress index for analysis the stress degree using the image of a smartphone camera are possible. In this study, we used a smartphone camera, not commercialized product or standardized sensor, so it has low resolution than those of using commercialized external sensor. However, despite this disadvantage, it can be usefully employed as the u-Healthcare device because it can obtain the promising data by developing additional external device for improvement reliability of result and optimization algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.111-112
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 광전 용적맥파(photoelectric plethysmography, PPG)를 기반으로 이를 이용하여 혈관 탄성도를 측정 할 수 있는 시스템에 관하여 연구하였다. 광전 용적맥파는 광을 이용한 비 침습적 맥파 측정 방식으로 손가락 끝 부분에서 측정하고 혈액 내에 헤모글로빈의 빛에 대한 광 흡수도의 차이로 인해 나타나게 된다. 얻어진 신호를 2차 미분 하게 되면 가속도 맥파 (acceleration photoplethymogram, APG)를 얻을 수 있고 이는 혈관 탄성도의 추정에 응용가능하다. 본 연구에서는 혈관 탄성도를 측정하기 위한 방법으로 광전 용적맥파를 적용하여 가속도 맥파 측정기기를 설계하고, 이를 바탕으로 혈관 탄성도 추정에 적용 가능 여부를 연구하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.662-665
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 기존 병원중심의 생체신호모니터링을 가정 내에서 보다 편리하게 수행하여 일상생활중 지속적인 건강상태를 모니터링하고 계측된 생체신호를 웹을 통해 병원이나 전문가가 실시간으로 모니터링 할 수 있는 생체신호 모니터링 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현한 시스템은 범용적인 건강모니터링에 활용할 수 있는 생체신호인 심전도, 맥파를 측정대상으로 하였다. 심전도와 맥파의 계측을 위하여 신호 측정부를 구성하였고, 신호측정부로부터 검출된 신호를 PC기반의 신호모니터링 프로그램으로 전송하기 위하여 마이크로프로세서를 이용한 신호변환 및 시스템 제어부를 구성하였다. 계측된 데이터는 시스템 자체에서 그래픽 LCD를 이용하여 디스플레이가 가능하도록 구성하였으며, 블루투스 통신을 통해 PC와의 무선통신이 가능하도록 시스템을 구성하였다. 또한 PC기반의 실시간 모니터링 프로그램을 구현하여 데이터의 디스플레이 및 저장이 가능하도록 하였으며, 더 나아가 원격지에서의 신호모니터링이 가능하도록 시스템을 구현하였다.