• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.445-453
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• 2021

CT scan is reported to have a high risk of cancer due to a relatively high dose among medical radiological examinations. In particular, exposure to radiation to the breast, which is sensitive to radiation, is inevitable during a chest CT scan for female patient. In this study, the dose reduction effect of wearing a compression band during chest CT scans in women was evaluated, and the lifetime attributable risk due to the effective dose exposed during the CT scan was estimated. As a result, when the compression band was used, the effective tube current decreased as the outer perimeter of the chest became smaller, and it was analyzed that the CT dose index and effective dose were also reduced. In addition, the lifetime attributable risk by chest CT scan was found to reduce the cancer risk by 3.2 per 100,000 for all cancers, 0.2 per 100,000 for solid cancer, and 0.8 per 100,000 for breast cancer, based on women in their 30s when using a compression band. It is judged that the risk of cancer can be reduced through the use of appropriate scan parameters and dose optimization measures such as compression bands for future CT examinations.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.919-927
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• 2023

Elastography utilizes the fact that the tissue of a malignant tumor is harder than that of a benign tumor and increases the specificity of diagnosis according to the elastic modulus of the tumor, helping to reduce unnecessary biopsies. However, the reliability of elastography can be influenced by the equipment used and the examiner's skills. In this study, the researchers analyzed the reproducibility of elastography by evaluating phantom images when measuring the elasticity values repeatedly. Phantoms were created using silicone and gelatin with different levels of stiffness, and they were inserted at varying depths from the surface. The elasticity values were measured using shear wave elastography. The study aimed to determine whether the reproducibility of elasticity values remains consistent depending on the stiffness and depth of the lesions. The experimental results showed that there was no statistically significant correlation between the elasticity values obtained through shear wave elastography and the depth or stiffness of the lesions. However, in the lesions with the lowest stiffness, the elasticity values were statistically significant (p<0.001) and showed a high correlation with the depth of the lesions. Although there were variations in the measured elasticity values based on the differences in lesion stiffness and depth, these differences did not significantly impact the diagnosis. Therefore, shear wave elastography remains a reliable diagnostic method, and it is suggested that it can be helpful in the diagnosis of breast lesions.

• Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.15-21
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• 2017

C-reactive protein (CRP) levels are not generally associated with viral infections. This study investigated the changes in the CRP level caused by an infection from respiratory virus (RV). Nasopharyngeal samples from hospitalized patients with suspected RV infection were used to measure the CRP levels, virus load, virus-virus co-infection, age, sex, and length of hospital stay (LOS). Abnormal CRP levels were detected in 62.3% (3,608 out of 5,788) of all RV-positive samples. The percentage of patients with abnormal CRP levels tended to increase with age. Furthermore, LOS in patients with abnormal CRP levels was significantly longer than that in patients with normal CRP levels. The frequency of elevated CRP levels differed according to the causative virus and the frequency of abnormal levels increased with age. Moreover, LOS was longer in those with abnormal CRP levels. These data provide important insights into the role of CRP levels in RV infection.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.34-34
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• 2004

국가지정연구실 사업인 "인공위성 및 지구접근천체 감시연구"에서는 2003월 한국천문연구원 전파연구동에 60cm 광시야 망원경을 설치하여 시험가동중이다. 이 광시야 망원경의 광학계는 초점비 F/2.92로 직초점 방식이며 3개의 보정렌즈를 이용하여 보정된 초점면의 시야는 2.7도가 되도록 설계되었다. 독일에서 제작하였으며 광학계를 구동할 마운트는 국내 제작하였다. Apogee사 AP10, FingerLake 사 2K CCD 카메라, Pentax 67사진 카메라와 같은 다양한 관측기기를 이용하여 광학계의 성능을 검사하고 광축조정을 하고 있으며 발생한 문제점을 파악하여 해결하고 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1965-1966
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• 2008

The manipulation of Boolean functions is a fundamental part of computer science, and many problems in the design and testing of digital systems can be expressed as a sequence of operations. It is mainly a paper of our research on the techniques of Boolean function manipulation using Binary Decision Diagram(BDDs) and their applications for VLSI CAD System. In many practical applications related to digital system design, it is a basic technique to use ternary-valued functions. In this paper, we discuss the methods for representing logical values.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.127-142
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• 2014

Plagiarism occurs when the content is copied without permission or citation, and the problem of plagiarism has rapidly increased because of the digital era of resources available on the World Wide Web. An important task in plagiarism detection is measuring and determining similar text portions between a given pair of documents. One of the main difficulties of this task is that not all similar text fragments are examples of plagiarism, since thematic coincidences also tend to produce portions of similar text. In order to handle this problem, this paper proposed association analysis in data mining to detect plagiarism. This method is able to detect common actions performed by plagiarists such as word deletion, insertion and transposition, allowing to obtain plausible portions of plagiarized text. Experimental results employing an unsupervised document classification strategy showed that the proposed method outperformed traditionally used approaches.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.61-74
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of CIS(Creativity Inventory for Young Students) and its relationship with Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking(TTCT) and What Kind of Person Are You?(WKOPAY). The number of subjects were 523 elementary school students ranging from 4th to 6th grade. All subjects were tested for TTCT, CIS and WKOPAY. The data were analyzed by reliability analysis, bivariate correlation and confirmatory factor analysis(CFA). It was found that the CIS was a reliable and valid measure for creativity. Future research for elaborating CIS was discussed.

• Monthly Duck's Village
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• s.104
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• pp.86-91
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• 2012

국내 최초 '오리장염'에 관한 연구가 발표되었다. 전북대학교 수의과대학 조류질병학교실(교수 : 장형관, 발표자 : 장상호 대학원생)은 국내에서 아직 보고된 바 없는 '오리장염 바이러스' 진단과 예방에 활용될 수 있는 결과를 발표, 지난해 열린 대한수의학회 추계학술대회에서 수의양계대상을 수상하여 주목받고 있다. 이 논문은 오리장염바이러스의 국내 첫 보고 및 특성구명을 통해 바이러스가 어디로부터 유래했는지 연구 분석한 것이다. 이번 연구발표로 국내 오리 사육농가의 오리장염바이러스의 진단과 예방에 큰 도움이 될 것으로 기대되고 있어 귀추가 모아진다. 전북대 수의학대학 수의학과 장형관 교수는 건국대 수의학과를 졸업하고 수의미생물학 석사를 취득 후 93년 일본으로 넘어가 동경대학교 수의전염병학 수의학박사학위를 취득했다. 현재 전북대 수의학과 교수이면서 인수 공동전염병연구소 소장을 맡고 있으며, 전라북도 가축방역협의회 및 농림수산검역검사본부 동식물위생연구소 질병진단과 자문위원으로도 활발히 활동하고 있다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.21-36
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• 2009

As the World Wide Web (WWW) has become a major channel for information delivery, the data accumulated in the Internet increases at an incredible speed, and it derives the advances of information search technologies. It is the search engine that solves the problem of information overloading and helps people to identify relevant information. However, as search engines become a powerful tool for finding information, the opportunities of plagiarizing have increased significantly in e-Learning. In this paper, we developed an online plagiarism detection system for detecting plagiarized documents that incorporates the functions of search engines and acts in exactly the same way of plagiarizing. The plagiarism detection system uses morpheme analysis to improve the performance and sentence-based comparison to investigate document comes from multiple sources. As a result of applying this system in e-Learning, the performance of plagiarism detection was improved.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.611-614
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 컨베이어 벨트상에서 이송되는 대용량 소포영상의 획득과정을 통해 ROI(Region of Interest) 고속추출하기 위한 개념모델을 제시하고, 바코드와 같은 정규패턴을 고속으로 추출하여 단계적으로 검증한 것이다. 불필요한 영역을 검사하기 위한 조건과 유사한 패턴을 단계적으로 제거하는 방법을 적용한 것이다. $4,096{\times}4,096$이상의 대용량 영상에서 여러 종류의 2차원 바코드 ROI를 추출에 대해 약 200msec 이내에 완료되고, 거의 100%에 가까운 신뢰도로 바코드 영역을 추출할 수 있도록 한 것이다.