• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.664-671
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• 2012

Recently, practice education using virtual medical simulation has been applied to real clinical environment by enhancing the learning efficiency. Specially, in minimally invasive surgery, the necessity of virtual surgery medical simulation has been increased. Realistic bleeding animation, which represents bleeding special effects frequently occurred in virtual medical simulation environment, has not been proposed yet. In this paper, we propose realistic real-time bleeding animation. For bleeding simulation, proposed method calculates main and effective bleeding regions along the main bleeding direction vector to represent naturalistic bleeding effect. In addition, for bleeding rendering, proposed method uses sigmoid function to impose weights of vertex opacities for the smooth opacity change so that the results of bleeding animation is realistic. Proposed method improves the sense of the real and absorption in virtual surgery medical simulation so that the education efficiency of doctors and students using medical simulation can be enhanced.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.104-112
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• 2007

Simulators were introduced in education as a tool to make advanced training standardized, less expensive, and without danger to those involved. In 1922 in the Unites States, Edward Link presented his homemade flight simulator, which became common place in both military and civilian aviation, known as the "Link Trainer". The development of mannequin simulators used for medical simulation education, training, and research is reviewed, tracing the motivations, evolution to commercial availability, and efforts toward assessment of efficacy of those for teaching cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR) for medical personnel and emergency medical technicians(EMT), cardiology skills, anaesthesia clinical skills, and crisis management. This study will provide a brief overview of simulators and trainers in several domains.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.21-31
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• 2013

There is a high demand for the diagnostic medical blood analyzer in the global medical device market. The domestic market is in infant stage, but expected to grow very fast. In this study, we attempt to provide several ways for production improvement in order to secure price competitiveness of domestic medical blood analyzer. For this purpose we identify the problems of current production process using ARENA simulation and suggest several alternatives for productivity improvement.. Five steps of TOC (Theory of Constraints) and ARENA simulation are employed to predict productivity of each alternative and to suggest further improvement.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.61-66
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• 2014

As a key technology of U-health, RFID can be applied to the hospitals in a variety of cases such as patient tracking, medical instrument management, and so on. However, adoption of RFID in healthcare does not reach expectations because of huge cost. Exact estimation of cost and effectiveness will boost adoption of RFID in healthcare. This study proposes a novel simulation technique to evaluate cost and effectiveness of RFID in hospital environment. To do this, this study proposes a technique for modeling patients' movements in a hospital. Based on the model, this study provides how to obtain tag event dataset by means of simulating identifications of RFID tags that are attached to patients.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.1175-1181
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• 2011

Practice education using virtual medical simulation has been recently introduced to maximize the learning efficiency in clinical environment. Specially, in minimally invasive surgery, the necessity of virtual surgery medical simulation has been substantially increased. Since cauterizing effect occurred frequently in minimally invasive surgery has been represented by simple bleeding, realistic cauterizing effect animation has not been proposed yet. In this paper, we propose realistic real-time cauterizing effect animation. Proposed method changes the individual element of each vertex color of the mesh and uses sigmoid function to impose weights for the smooth color change inside the valid mesh region so that the results of cauterizing effect animation was realistic. In addition, by proposing cauterizing color buffer, overlapped cauterizing effects can be realistically represented. Proposed method greatly improves the sense of the real and absorption in virtual surgery medical simulation so that the education efficiency of doctors and students using medical simulation can be maximized.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.125-139
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• 2017

Recently, interest in improving the quality of EMS(emergency medical services) has been increasing. Much effort is being made to innovate the EMS process. The rapid progress of ICT technology has accelerated the automation or intelligence of EMS processes. This study suggests an emergency room management method based on real-time data considering resource utilization optimization, minimization of human error and enhancement of predictability of medical care. Emergency room operation indices - Emergency care index, Short stay index, Human error inducing index, Waiting patience index - are developed. And emergency room operation rules based on these indices are presented. Simulation was performed on a virtual emergency room to verify the effectiveness of the proposed operating rule. Simulation results showed excellent performance in terms of length of stay.

• Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.47-57
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• 2004

의료영상기기의 발달로 인체 내부의 장기들에 대한 촬영이 가능해지면서 의료영상을 이용하여 인체 해부학적 구조 및 장기 기능을 시각화 및 분석하는 것에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 이러한 의료영상 가시화 기술은 영상처리 및 컴퓨터 비젼, 컴퓨터 그래픽스, 가상 및 증강현실 등의 다양한 분야의 기술과 연계되어 컴퓨터 의료진단 및 치료계획, 가상 수술 시뮬레이션, 원격 수술로 봇과 같은 첨단 의료 시스템의 개발에 박차를 가하고 있다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.83-92
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• 2016

Tolerances are defined as the allowable variations in the geometry and positioning of parts in a mechanical assembly for assuring its proper functionality. Tolerance analysis is the activity related to estimating the potential accumulated variation in assemblies. If the estimated variances go out of the specified ranges, it causes the quality problem. Thus, we should adjust the tolerances and this activity is called as tolerance design. In this paper, a case study on the accumulated tolerance analysis and design using Monte Carlo simulation is introduced, which is applied for developing a portable medical device. Using the simulation study, we can improve the assemblability and functionality of the product.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.369-377
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• 2021

Augmented reality smart-glass enables healthcare providers to use patient and their care related information without interference of workflow. In addition, augmented reality smart-glass simulation had advantages in improving competency via remote collaboration and real-time information sharing. This study investigated perception and attitude regarding augmented reality smart glass based healthcare simulation on three different groups of healthcare major students, computer major students, developers and faculties. Using convenience sampling method, data were obtained from 95 participants and statistical analysis were performed using SPSS 25.0. Developer and faculty group showed the highest scores, followed by healthcare major students. There was the high expectation on augmented reality smart-glass for skill acquisition and the high performance and big screen were essential features of device. The findings of this study revealed that differences between healthcare and computer major students exist and strategies to reduce those gaps are required to adopt augmented reality smart glass in healthcare settings.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.153-156
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 무선공중망을 이용하여 재택 혹은 원거리에서도 환자의 상태를 확인하고 감시함으로써 의료서비스의 이동성을 제공하기 위한 의료정보 무선전송 시스템을 제안하고, 시뮬레이션 하였다. 제안한 방법은 응급상황 발생 시 의료정보를 디지털 데이터로 변환하여 PDA와 같은 이동형 단말에 전송함으로써 신속한 응급처치 등이 가능토록 한다. 시뮬레이션은 이동 무선채널환경에서 신뢰성 있는 의료정보의 전송을 위하여 IEEE 802.11a에 근거한 OFDM/QPSK 전송방식을 사용하였고, AWGN과 3-ray 이동 다중경로 페이딩 환경에서 신뢰성 있는 정보전송을 위하여 콘볼루션 코딩을 적용하여 시스템 성능을 분석하였다.