• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.47-52
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• 2000

단기기억 작업시 집중도를 평가하기 위하여 평가용 task를 설계하고 5단계의 난이도에 대하여 실험을 실시하였다. 난이도에 따른 집중도의 변화를 측정하기 위하여 주관평가를 실시하고 행동지표와 생리신호를 측정하였다. 측정된 생리신호 중 전두엽(Ep1, Ep2)에서 측정한 뇌전도 신호의 $\alpha$-band와 $\beta$-band의 전력의 비와, 심박변화율의 전력 스펙트럼의 MF/(LF+MF+HF)비를 구하였다. 실험 결과 집중도 높게 보고된 단계에서 task를 수행함에 따라 뇌전도 신호의 $\alpha$/$\beta$ 비와 심박변화율의 MF/(LF+MF+HF) 비도 점차로 증가하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.427-432
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• 1999

지금까지 감성측정은 심박 변화율, 피부저항, 피부온도 등의 생리 신호를 측정하고 그 신호를 이용하여 비교, 분석하여 왔다. 심박 변화율, 피부저항, 피부온도와 마찬가지로 자율신경계 반응의 하나로써 맥파 또한 인간의 감성을 평가하는 한 파라미터가 될 수 있음을 예상하고 본 연구를 수행하였다. 건강한 피험자 5명을 상대로 긍정과 부정 시각 자극을 각각 주어서 심박 변화율과 맥파의 생리신호를 측정한 후 그 동안 발표되었던 심박 변화율의 결과를 기준으로 맥파의 결과와 비교, 분석하였다. 그 결과 평균 R-R 간격의 변화율과 맥파의 최고점 평균 시간 간격의 변화율 그리고 맥파의 최대 기울기점 사이의 시간 간격의 변화율이 유사함을 알 수 있었다. 또한 맥파의 Baseline Deflection 과 Amplitude를 이용하여 감성 측정을 시도하였다. 긍정 시각 자극에 비해 부정 시각 자극 일 때 맥파의 최고점 및 최대 기울기점의 평균 시간 간격은 감소하였고, Baseline Deflection은 증가하였고, Amplitude 는 감소하였다. 이는 부정시각 자극이 교감신경계를 활성화시킴을 보여 주는 것이다. 본 연구를 통하여 맥파도 자율 신경계의 반응을 대면하는 생리신호로써 감성 측정에 유용한 도구임을 검증할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.299-306
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• 2016

In this paper, a vital sign sensor based on impedance variation of resonator is proposed to detect the respiration and heartbeat signals within near-field range as a function of the separation distance between resonator and subject. The sensor consists of an oscillator with a built-in planar type patch resonator, a diplexer for only pass the second harmonic frequency, amplifier, SAW filter, and RF detector. The cardiac activity of a subject such as respiration and heartbeat causes the variation of the oscillation frequency corresponding impedance variation of the resonator within near-field range. The combination of the second harmonic oscillation frequency deviation and the superior skirt frequency of the SAW filter enables the proposed sensor to extend twice detection range. The experimental results reveal that the proposed sensor placed 40 mm away from a subject can reliably detect respiration and heartbeat signals.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.723-728
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• 2010

This study proposed a design of a portable device for measuring heart rate using photoplethysmograph signal to minimize load of a nurse increased from insufficiency of an internal hospital nurse, and algorithm to measure reliable heart rate in PPG signals despite the existence of patient's motion artifacts. The proposed method for measuring heart rate is the method to minimize the motion interference by using the adaptive filter based on harmonic characteristic of PPG signal. To evaluate the performances of the a portable device implemented by the proposed method, we used several motion artifacts including finger and wrist movements; we then compared out results with the performance of the moving average filter. In this results, the proposed method showed a better performance than that of the moving average filter. Therefore, when nurses use the a portable device for measuring heart rate proposed in this study, it will enable to improve nurse work and to measure the reliable heart rate.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2009

In this paper, a 2.4 GHz doppler radar system consisting of a doppler radar sensor and a baseband module were designed to detect heart beat and respiration signal without direct skin contact. The doppler radar system emits RF signal of 2.4 GHz toward human chest, and then detects phase modulation of the reflected signal so as to investigate cardiopulmonary activities. The heartbeat and respiration signals acquired from I/Q channels of the doppler radar system are applied to the pre-processing circuit, the amplification circuit, and the offset circuit of the baseband module. The designed system was tested on mouse, rabbit and mankind, which have different range of heart rates and respiration signals, to evaluate detection accuracy of the system. ECG acquisition system and respiration transducer were used to generate the reference signal. In our experiments, a performance of detection were found to be high in the case that the subject stays still. In this paper, we confirmed that non-contact heart beat and respiration detection using the doppler radar has the possibility and limitation according to distance, cardiopulmonary activities, range of heart rates and respiration.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.50-54
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• 2014

This study presents a method for heart rate detection using oscillation wave signal and tries to enhance the performance of peak detection. For this objective, the method uses the average slopes around the main peak. The crossing point of the increasing and the decreasing slopes is selected as the peak point of heart rate period. The proposed method showed smoothed heart rate graph and reduced irregularity in heart rate values.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.731-739
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• 2015

In arrhythmia ECG signal, abnormal beat that has various abnormal shape depending on the generation site and conduction disorders is included and it is very important to diagnose heart disease such as arrhythmia. In this paper, we propose a PVC abnormal beat detection algorithm associated with ventricular disease. The PVC abnormal beat is characterized by distortion of the QRS complex occurs among the components of the ECG signal. Therefore it is possible to detect PVC abnormal beat according to the degree of distortion of the QRS complex. First, quantify the distortion of the QRS complex by using the potential of the R-peak, kurtosis and period. By using the mean and standard deviation, PVC abnormal beat is detected depending on the degree of distortion from the normal beat. The proposed algorithm can detect the average over 98% of the AAMI-V class type abnormal beat associated with ventricular disease in MIT-BIH arrhythmia database.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.63-69
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• 2020

In this paper, a small microwave sensor that can be applied to a wearable device is proposed because it can detect the heartbeat signal of a human body moving irregularly at low speed. It consist of balanced microstrip radiation patches in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, self-oscillation detection circuit, and feedback circuit. Based on the theoretical development and simulation, the validity of the proposed structure was confirmed and the manufactured prototype was tested. The board size of the circuit is as small as 65mm × 85㎟, and has a low power consumption of 60mW thanks to the simple RF circuit structure. Finally heartbeat signal has been obtained from a human body moving at low speed (0.5Hz) within a linear distance of 2 to 30mm close to the sensor and a lateral distance of ±20mm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.1051-1053
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• 2015

다양한 종류의 생체 신호들을 모니터링하는 연구들이 활발히 진행되면서 이제는 병원이나 전문기관뿐만 아니라 일상 생활 속 에서 사람들이 스마트폰을 이용하여 특별한 제약 없이 편리하게 측정 가능하다. 이러한 스마트폰의 특성을 살리고 그 중 카메라 PPG (Photo-plethysmography) 모듈을 통해 얻은 생체 신호 정보를 분석하여 사용자에게 분석된 정보를 보여줄 수 있다. 또한 얻은 생체 신호로 심박수를 구하고 얻어진 심박수 정보를 활용하여 이를 사용자에게 Hologram으로 보여주는 것을 목표로 한다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.581-587
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• 2004

Conventional power spectrum methods based on FFT, AR method are not appropriate for analyzing biomedical signals whose spectral characteristics change rapidly. On the other hand, time-frequency analysis has more desirable characteristics of a time-varying spectrum. In this study, we investigated the spectral components of heart rate variability(HRV) in time-frequency domain using time frequency analysis methods. In the various time-frequency kernels functions, we studied the suitable kernels for the analysis of HRV using synthetic HRV signals. First, we evaluated the time/frequency resolution and cross term reduction of various kernel functions. Then, from the instantaneous frequency, obtained from time-frequency distribution, the method extracting frequency components of HRV was proposed. Subjects were 17 healthy young men. A coin-stacking task was used to induce mental stress. For each subjects, the experiment time was 3 minutes. Electrocardiogram, measured during the experiment, was analyzed after converted to HRV signal. In the results, emotional stress of subjects produced an increase in sympathetic activity. Sympathetic activation was responsible for the significant increase in the LF/HF ratio. Subjects were divided into two groups with task ability. Subjects who have higher mental stress have lack of task ability.