• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.235-242
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• 2019

Recently, the use of artificial intelligence technology including deep learning has become active in various fields. In particular, several algorithms showing superior performance in object recognition and detection based on deep learning technology have been presented. In this paper, we propose the proper direction for the implementation of mobile healthcare application that user's convenience is effectively reflected. By effectively analyzing the current state of use satisfaction research for the existing fitness applications and the current status of mobile healthcare applications, we attempt to secure survival and superiority in the fitness application market, and, at the same time, to maintain and expand the existing user base.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.47-52
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• 2016

의료기기는 다학제적 융합기술 분야이자 고 부가가치 산업으로 IT 기술의 발전과 초고령화 사회의 본격화로 높은 성장 가능성이 전망된다. 이 중 피부 부착형 (웨어러블) 및 인체 삽입형 (임플랜터블) 소형 의료기기는 포화된 스마트폰 시장에 새로운 성장 원동력으로 작용할 것이다. 따라서 본고에서는 생체삽입형 및 부착형 소형 의료기기 중 생체삽입형 전극 어레이, 스마트 콘택트 렌즈, 피부부착형 헬스 모니터링 디바이스의 개발 사례를 알아보고, 궁극적 소형 의료기기로 손꼽히는 복용형 디바이스에 대한 전망을 알아본다. 또한 각 유형별로 현재 극복해야 할 기술적 한계와 문제점을 짚어본다.

• Design Convergence Study
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.123-135
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• 2017

In recent mobile health care service, health management using number of steps is becoming popular. In addition, a variety of activity trackers have made it possible to measure the number of steps more accurately and easily. Nevertheless, the activity tracker is not popularized, and it is a trend to use the pedometer sensor of the smartphone as an alternative. In this study, we tried to find out how much the number of steps collected by the smartphone versus the actual number of steps in actual situations, and what factors make the difference. We conducted an experiment to collect number of steps data of 21 people using the smartphone and wearable device simultaneously for 7 days. As a result, we found that the average number of steps of the smartphone is 62% compared to the actual number of steps, and that there is a large variation among users. We derived a regression model in which the accuracy of smartphone increases with the degree of awareness of smartphone. We expect that this can be used as a factor to correct the difference from the actual number of steps in the smartphone alone healthcare service.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.60-70
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• 2018

Recently with the entrance to the aging society, the demand on health care services is being increased. However, there are still few GUI types of research considering the characteristics of new-silver generation progressively preparing for their golden(old) age. As the new-silver generation showed less reluctance to the information acquired through the Internet comparing to general seniors, but it is urgent to conduct researches about GUI of mobile healthcare services considering their physical, psychological and social characteristics. Hence, the purpose of this study was to propose some guidelines of GUI evaluation so that new-silver generation being emerged as main consumer group in future medical consumption could efficiently use mobile health care services. As the research methods, first, this study analyzed the characteristics of new-silver generation through reviewing literature and previous studies and understood the status quo of mobile health care services, and second, it analyzed the visual composition factors being preferred in each field of current mobile healthcare application and drew out a usability evaluation matrix of mobile GUI design appropriate for elderly people's characteristics. Third, with the drawn evaluation matrix, this study conducted the usability evaluation of 8 subjects in new-silver generation ranging from 57 years old to 65 years old through a heuristic way. This study expects that it would be contributed in increasing the GUI usability by proposing some guidelines for GUI being appropriated for new-silver generation user's characteristics, and thinks that researches about developing health-care mobile applications will be continued in future at the same time.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.563-565
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• 2023

Acupuncture and acupressure apply needles or pressure to anatomical points for therapeutic benefit. The over 350 mapped acupuncture points in the human body can each treat various conditions, but anatomical variations make precisely locating these acupoints difficult. We propose a computer vision technique using the real-time hand and face tracking capabilities of the MediaPipe framework to identify acupoint locations. Our model detects anatomical facial and hand landmarks, and then maps these to corresponding acupoint regions. In summary, our proposed model facilitates precise acupoint localization for self-treatment and enhances practitioners' abilities to deliver targeted acupuncture and acupressure therapies.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.2008-2016
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• 2014

With the increased attention about health care and management of heart diseases, ubiquitous healthcare services and related devices have been actively developed recently. In this paper we developed a mobile healthcare system which consists of smartphone and patch-type ECG measuring device. This system is capable of monitoring, storing, and sending bio signals such as ECG, heart rate, heart rate variability as well as exercise management functions through heart rate zones. With monitoring bio signal continuously by mobile healthcare system and wearable device like us, people can prevent chronic disease and maintain good health. Here we report our implementation results on real platforms.

• Communications of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.31-44
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• 2015

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.23-32
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• 2011

U-health services have been progressed as treatment and management for specific diseases and prevention services for providing the behavior management to customers according to the increase in chronic patients. The conventional U-health services provide required services and bio-information monitoring only through remote diagnoses and counsels and that represent limitations in preventing and managing metabolic syndrome patients like chronic patients. Thus, in this study a multi platform based U-health service model for managing the health of chronic patients is proposed. The multi-platform based U-health service model can provide continuous health information, diet, and exercise services regardless of the location of customers through PCs and smart phones. In addition, it is able to provide prescription services to doctors and nurses using a CDS (Clinical Decision Support) module based on clinical information. Doctors can identify the life pattern of patients through a behavior modification program and provide customized services to patients. The U-health service model provides effective services in multi-platform environments to customers and that will improve the health of chronic patients.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1416-1419
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• 2015

최근 건강에 대한 일반인들의 관심이 증가하면서 스마트 헬스케어 시장 규모가 기하급수적으로 커지고 있다. 특히 탈모 관련 헬스케어 시장의 경우, 국내 탈모 인구의 증가로 인해 탈모의 예방이나 관리 등 탈모 관련 어플리케이션이 빠르게 등장하고 있다. 모발 밀도는 탈모의 정도를 판단하기 위한 가장 기본적인 모발 특징 중 하나이지만, 모발의 밀도를 측정하기 위한 명확한 영상처리 기법이나 소프트웨어의 개발은 여전히 미진한 상태이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 스마트폰에 탈부착이 가능한 포터블 카메라에서 촬영된 두피 모발 현미경 영상에서 모발의 밀도를 측정하고 이를 기반으로 사용자 중심의 탈모 진단 플랫폼을 구축하고자 한다. 모발 밀도의 측정은 Contrast Stretching과 Morphology Processing을 이용한 전처리, 스켈레톤 이미지의 변환, 그리고 라인 끝점 검색 알고리즘의 적용 등 크게 세 단계로 진행된다. 제안하는 기법의 성능 평가를 위해, 50배율 포터블 카메라로 촬영한 두피 영상 30개에 대해 밀도 측정을 수행하였으며 그 결과 92.88%의 정확도를 얻었다. 결과적으로 제안하는 기법은 단순 두피 현미경 영상으로 탈모의 지표가 될 수 있는 모발 밀도를 측정하는 데 충분히 효과적임을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.10
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• pp.43-52
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose the architecture of the policy-based emergency bio data transmission for the smart healthcare service. the medical staff can quickly and accurately monitor the emergency bio data of the remote patient through the proposed architecture. The proposed system consists of three parts: IEEE 11073-based agents and managers performing the aggregation function and transmission function of the bio data; the emergency management server performing the converting function between IEEE 11073 and HL7 and auto-diagnosis function of the policy-based; HL7 medical system based on HL7. Finally, by implementing the proposed system, we shows that the aggregation of the bio data and management of the emergency bio data in the smart healthcare service are possible.