• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.575-582
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• 2018

This article compared accuracy of 5 types of radionuclide activity meters that are being used in medical institutions and proposed the correction factor for each radionuclide activity meters type, using Ge-68/Ga-68 radiation sources for scanner setting, regular scanner correction, attenuation correction, and normalization. The calibration constant between baseline values and measured values by CRC-15R, CRC-15 PET, CRC-712M, CRC-15 Beta, and CRC-25PET was 0.99999(P<0.0001), which showed very high linearity. In the accuracy test, CRC-15R, CRC-15 PET, CRC-712M, CRC-15 Beta, and CRC-25PET model showed -3.232%, -1.342%, -2.815%, -2.913%, and -3.089% respectively.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.101-126
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• 1999

As the WTO system launches through the agreement of Uruguay Round, the Government has to revise the office regulations or reform the system. Also, Integrating and Coordinating the like affair in health care (i. e., children's home, industry health, school health, health manpower, the administration of health center, the administration on food hygiene, health environmental education, and so on.) which is now scattered into some government departments like the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Environment, the Government has to prevent unspecialty, inefficiency, inconsistency, and uneconomy. The Government has to review and adopt above suggested the Proposal 1),2),3),4) of the Health Centers on the basis of the local autonomy law and it will help the successive settlement of the local autonomy system in Korea. According to the suggested proposal, the Central Government mainly takes charge of the Macro affairs as hardware, and transfer the Micro affairs as software into the Local Governments to attempt the appropriate functional allocation. To achieve it successfully, the Central Government also has to do the financial support, manpower training and technical support, allocation of health care resources, direction and control, research and development and the health care plan on the macro level. Local Governments which divided into the wide local government and basic local government also have to do their best for health improvement of the community societies like plan of health care program, implementation of health care service program, taking charge of the affairs of health insurance, activation of community residents' participation and security of health care resources etc. To achieve this goal, the Government have to be more active and reformative, the related social and health agencies and educational agencies have to cooperate and support for the goals, and especially, the community residents have to participate actively and voluntarily, When all these conditions promote, local health care administration will be developed, and health level of community residents will be secured. And going one step forward, the country and people will be more healthy

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 1999.03a
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• pp.137-143
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• 1999

전문가시스템은 지식베이스를 이용하여 지식을 추론하는 추론엔진과 해당분야의 전문지식이 쌓여있는 지식베이스로 구성되어진다. 전문가시스템연구에 있어서 지식베이스에 저장되는 지식획득과 정의 규명이 가장 핵심적인 연구분야하고 할 수 있다. 전문지식은 일반적으로 지식공학자들이 전문가로부터 전문지식을 획득하여 구현하는 것이 가장 일반적인 방법으로서 많은 전문가시스템 개발방법 이론들은 지식획득과정에서 지식공학자들의 역할을 필수적인 것으로 이해하고 있다. 그러나 지식획득에 관한 광범위한 해결책은 여전히 제시되고 있지 못하며, 이러한 문제점은 전문가 시스템의 상용화에 가장 큰 어려움으로 지적되고 있다. 최근에는 이러한 지식획득병목현상을 해결하기 위하여 상황인식론과 같은 지식에 대한 새로운 해석을 기반으로한 지식획득 방법 이론들이 소개되고 있다. Multiple Classification Ripple Down Rules 이론은 1995년 소개된 이론으로서 지식의 획득과정을 지식의 유지보수라는 소프트웨어 공학적 개념에서 접근하고 있다. 지식의 획득과정에서 완전무결한 지식의 모델 찾기를 지양하고 지식이란 단계적 확장개념에서 진화한다고 이해한다. 즉 지식베이스의 구축 단계를 개발과 완료가 불가능하다는 관점에서 지식베이스 끊임없이 유지보수가 필요한 대상으로 이해하고 이러한 유지보수를 가능하게 하는 방법론을 제시한다. MCRDR에서 가장 핵심적인 부분은 지식공학자의 역할을 최소화하고 시스템 내부에서 지식의 관리와 획득을 수행하여 연구실험을 통하여 실용성이 입증되었고 의료분야에서 상용화 시스템 개발 툴로서 사용되어져 왔다. 그러나 MCRDR 이론이 적용된 전문가시스템들의 경우 MCRDR이론을 기본으로한 개발 툴로서 개발된 시스템들이 아니고 해당분야에서 MCRDR이론을 적용한 엔진을 직접 설계 구현하여 온 것이 사실이다. KEE(Knowledge Engineer for Experts) 시스템은 최근 개발된 MCRDR기반 전문가시스템 개발 툴로서 본 논문에서는 이러한 분야별 전문가시스템 개발을 지양하고 MCRDR 이론을 기반으로 한 범용성 있는 전문가시스템 개발 툴의 개발에 관한 연구를 소개한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.266-274
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• 2000

Medical image segmentation, which is essential in diagnosis and 3D reconstruction, is performed manually in most applications to produce accurate results. However, manual segmentation requires lots of time to segment, and is difficult even for the same operator to reproduce the same segmentation results for a region. To overcome such limitations, we propose a convenient and accurate semiautomatic segmentation method. The proposed method initially receives several control points of an ROI(Region of Interest Region) from a human operator, and then finds a boundary composed of a minimum cost path connecting the control points, which is the Live-wire method. Next, the boundary is modified to overcome limitations of the Live-wire, such as a zig-zag boundary and erosion of an ROI. Finally, the region is segmented by SRG(Seeded Region Growing), where the modified boundary acts as a blockage to prevent leakage. The proposed User-steered balloon method can overcome not only the limitations of the Live-wire but also the leakage problem of the SRG. Segmentation results of thigh muscles of the Visible Human are presented.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.169-176
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• 2015

The mechanical properties of living tissues have been major subjects of interest in biomechanics. In particular, the characteristics of very soft materials such as the brain have not been fully understood because experiments are often severely limited by ethical guidelines. There are increasing demands for studies on remote medical operations using robots. We conducted compression tests on brain-like specimens made of gelatin to find substitutes with the mechanical properties of brain tissues. Using a finite element analysis, we compared our experimental data with existing data on the brain in order to establish material models for brain tissues. We found that our substitute models for brain tissues effectively simulated their mechanical behaviors.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.335-342
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• 2012

3D point cloud is widely used in Architecture, Civil Engineering, Medical, Computer Graphics, and many other fields. Due to the improvement of 3D laser scanner, a massive 3D point cloud whose gigantic file size is bigger than computer's memory requires efficient preprocessing and visualization. We suggest a data structure to solve the problem; a 3D point cloud is gradually subdivided by arbitrary-sized cube grids structure and corresponding point cloud subsets generated by the center of each grid cell are achieved while preprocessing. A massive 3D point cloud file is tested through two algorithms: QSplat and ours. Our algorithm, grid-based, showed slower speed in preprocessing but performed faster rendering speed comparing to QSplat. Also our algorithm is further designed to editing or segmentation using the original coordinates of 3D point cloud.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11b
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• pp.901-903
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 2007-2009년에 간호학과 및 스포츠과학부 해부학 강의에 있어 가상강의를 실시하였고 이에 따른 학생들의 가상강의 컨텐츠의 만족도와 가상강의실 활용빈도에 따른 학업성취도와의 상관관계를 분석하였다. 2007-2009학년도 1학기 해부학 강의를 가상강의 방식으로 수강한 2개 학과 231명을 대상으로 강의 종료 후 가상강의실 게시판 및 컨텐츠 활용 빈도, 개별 설문조사, 학기말 성적을 확보하여 상호간의 상관관계를 분석하였다. 각 학과별 일반 특성을 보기 위하여 연속 변수의 경우 평균과 표준오차를, 범주형 변수의 경우 그 분포 퍼센트를 이용하여 제시하였다. 학과별로 모든 학생들의 총점을 3분위수로 구분하여 낮음, 중간, 높음으로 분류하였으며, 조사된 모든 변수들의 일반 선형성을 GLM 모델을 이용하여 검증하였다. 사후 검증은 최소자승법을 이용하여 실시하였으며, 이를 이용하여 각각의 세부 집단별 점수 차이에 대한 유의성을 평가하였다. 관련 항목들 간 상관성 분석을 위하여 스피어만 상관계수를 이용하여 p 값 0.05를 기준으로 유의성 검증을 실시하였다. 모든 통계분석은 SAS 9.12 버전을 이용하여 분석하였다. 설문 대상자들은 학과와 해부학 성적에 상관없이 가상강의 전반에 대해 높은 만족도를 가졌다. 해부학 성적이 좋을수록 가상강의실 접속횟수가 유의하게 높았다. 아울러 해부학 성적이 좋을수록 난이도가 낮고 흥미도는 높게 나타났다. 또한 평가 요인들 간의 상관관계를 분석한 결과, 가상강의의 만족도는 흥미도와 전공과의 연계성과 밀접한 관련이 있었다. 가상강의 게시판을 통한 과제물 관리, 질의응답에 대한 적절성에 대해서는 성적에 따라 일부 유의한 차이가 나타났으나 높은 만족도를 나타내었다. 결론적으로 건강 및 의료 전공자들을 위한 해부학 강의에 있어 가상강의의 도입과 적용은 성공적이었으며, 이는 해부학 전공 교수진이 매우 부족한 현실에서 해부학 강의의 질적 저하를 막고 효율적인 교육을 위한 대안이 될 것으로 판단된다. 단, 해부학 가상강의 컨텐츠의 개선, 자료 보강 및 가상강의의 접근성 확보는 시급히 개선해야할 과제로 남아 있다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.210-218
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• 2015

When the driving voltage of an ultrasound transducer is increased to improve the quality of ultrasound images, heat is generated inside the transducer that can cause patient's skin burn and degradation of transducer performance. Hence, in this paper, a method to disperse the heat of the transducer has been studied. The phased array transducer having 3 MHz center frequency and 32 channels was selected for analyses of the thermal dispersion. First, mechanism of the heat generation was investigated in relation to the transducer operation through theoretical analysis, and material damping and sound pressure amplitude were confirmed to be influential on the heat generation. Further, we investigated the effects of the properties of the materials constituting the transducer on the thermal dispersion through finite element analysis. Based on the analysis results, we determined the thermal properties of the constituent materials that could facilitate the thermal dispersion inside the transducer. The determined thermal properties were applied to the finite element model, and the results showed that the maximum temperature at an acoustic lens contacting with a patient was decreased to 51 % of its initial value.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.401-404
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• 2007

Recently, researches on human modeling and visualization are being done in medical, educational field and clinical treatment. As human configurations, however, are different among races and ethnic people, it is necessary to construct standard Korean human model according to Korean standard configuration, age, and sex etc. KISTI started building the Visible Korean Human Database in 2000 and it has provided the Digital Korean Database built in 2003 for users in university, research institute. As the utilization of the Human Data was insignificant and the majority fields that used the data were in research, we investigate application of data, other utilization method, and current research status to further and boost use of the Human data in many other fields.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.235-244
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• 2000

This paper addresses a new method for constructing surface representation of 3D structures from a sequence of tomographic cross-sectional images, Firstly, we propose cell-boundary representation by transforming the cuberille space into cell space. A cell-boundary representation consists of a set of boundary cells with their 1-voxel configurations, and can compactly describe binary volumetric data. Secondly, to produce external surface from the cell-boundary representation, we define 19 modeling primitives (MP) including volumetric, planar and linear groups. Surface polygons are created from those modeling primitives using a simple table look-up operation. Comparing with previous method such as Marching Cube or PVP algorithm, our method is robust and does not make any crack in resulting surface model. Hardware implementation is expected to be easy because our algorithm is simple(scan-line), efficient and guarantees data locality in computation time.