• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.11
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• pp.183-190
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• 2012

Conventional physical activity monitoring systems, which use accelerometers, global positioning system (GPS), heartbeats, or body temperature information, showed limited performances due to their own restrictions on measurement environment and measurable activity types. To overcome these limitations, we developed a portable exercise analysis system that can analyze aerobic exercises as well as isotonic exercises. For bioelectric signal acquisition during exercise, waist belt with two body contact electrodes was used. For exercise analysis, the measured signals were firstly divided into two signal groups with different frequency ranges which can represent respiration related signal and muscular motion related signal, respectively. After then, power values, differential of power values, and median frequency values were selected for feature values. Selected features were used as inputs of support vector machine (SVM) to classify the exercise types. For verification of statistical significance, ANOVA and multiple comparison test were performed. The experimental results showed 100% accuracy for classification of aerobic exercise and isotonic resistance exercise. Also, classification of aerobic exercise, isotonic resistance exercise, and hybrid types of exercise revealed 92.7% of accuracy.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.543-549
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• 2000

위전도(Electrogastrography, EGG)는 복부에 전극을 부착하여 위에서 발생하는 위 근육의 전기적인 활동성(gastric electrical activity)을 측정하는 방법으로, 비관혈적이며 다른 검사에 비해 측정비용이 적게 든다. 그러나 위전도 신호는 주파수가 매우 낮으며(0.2~10cpm) 진폭이 매우 작기(10~100 $\mu$V) 때문에 측정에 어려움이 있으며, 분석이 어려워 아직까지 위전도 신호해석에 대한 이론이 정립되어 있지않다. 본 연구에서는 running spectrum 분석을 이용한 4채널 위전도 시스템을 개발하여 위에서 발생하는 활동전위를 측정하였다. 본 연구에서 개발한 4채널 위전도 시스템의 4개 채널 중 가장 3 cpm 백분율이 높은 베스트 채널과, 상용화된 1채널 시스템인 Digitrapper EGG와 같은 전극부착 위치인 채널 1의 3 cpm 백분율을 비교하였다. 베스트 채널과 채널 1의 식전 평균 3 cpm 백분율은 각각 89.5%와 83.2%이었으며 통계적으로 유의하였다(p〈0.001). 식후에는 평균 3 cpm 백분율이 각각 90.4%와 76.5%이었으며 통계적으로 유의하였다(p〈0.001). 결론적으로 1채널위전도 측정기로서는 각 개인의 다양한 위의 위치를 커버할 수 없으며 그에 따른 오진을 초래할 수도 있으므로 1채널 위전도 측정기보다 4채널 위전도 측정기가 더 우수하다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1023-1026
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• 2006

There are some cases in trouble with monitoring emergency patient by existing electrode sensor in measuring instrument in home and hospital etc. And there are problem to measure because of coming down electrode in emergency car or vessel of shaking and fat, humidity of patient. In this study, it has designed band-type for patient to put on the breast easily and go around anywhere freely putting band electrode on his body. Gold has used as electrode material in this electrocardiogram because of its excellent electronic resistance peculiarity and no trouble with skin. And it is able to monitor multi-body-signal by additional design of periphery temperature. There are good results of body signal transmission in the breast or the rib, and get a little body signal in abdomen. We get a result it is better case of gold than usual electrode on signal detection, and know usual electrode was disposable, but we have more correct result from gold electrode sensor, being semi-permanent ana. great contact ability even if movement.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.109-117
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• 2002

Electrogastrography(EGG) is a noninvasive method for measuring gastric electrical activity on the abdomen resulting from gastric muscle. EGG signals have a very low frequency range (0.0083 ~0.15 Hz) and extremely low amplitude(10~100 uV). Consequently, EGG signal is easily influenced by other noises. Both finite impulse response(FIR) and infinite impulse response (IIR) filters need high orders or have phase distortions for passing very narrow bandwidth of the EGG signal. In this study, we decomposed EGG signals using a wavelet multiresolution method with Daubechies mother wavelet. The EGG signals were decomposed to seven levels. We reconstructed signal by summing the decomposed signals from level four to seven. To evaluate the performance of the wavelet multiresolution filter(WMF) with simulated EGG signal using two kinds of FIR and four kinds of IIR filters., we used two indices; signal to noise ratio(SNR) and reconstruction squared error(RSE). The SNR of WMF had 9.5, 6.9, and 4.7 dB bigger than that of the other filters at different noise levels, respectively. Also, The RSE of WMF had $1.22{\times}10^6, 1.16{\times}10^6, 1.02{\times}10^6$ smaller than that of the other filters at different noise levels, respectively. The WMF performed better in the SNR and RSE than two kinds of FIR and four kinds of IIR filters.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.415-424
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• 2012

According to introduction of Well-Being lifestyle and ageing society, vital sign monitoring system which can be continued measurement of vital sign has been increased their important in field of the healthcare. Under this trend, Respiration monitoring system has been studied and developed in a various way to apply continued monitoring and non-conscious monitoring system. But, Study of the respiration monitoring system based on consumer needs and usability test is insufficient. In this study, Textile capacitive pressure sensor(TCPS) of belt type was developed and tested it's utility and subjective sensibility. TCPS measures respiration signals and can be derived in real time monitoring. As a result, monitoring respiration using textile capacitive pressure sensor offers a promising possibility of convenient measurement of respiration rate (correlation (r＝0.9553, p<0.0001). In the result of usability and wearability test, all of categorizes(perceived change, wearability, movement, facility of management, usefulness) were received favorable evaluation on usability test( mean value : 3.8), and suitable location of TCPS in the clothing is deriven on the abdomen part. According to synthetical results, Basic smart clothing design based on respiration monitoring system is proposed.