• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.20-30
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• 1996

Background : Theoretically as the waiting-time of patient is estimated in queueing, many men and much money are needed. But being the estimation of patient s waiting-time very important in hospital service, so the continuous monitoring of waiting-time is inevitable. To verify that the estimation of waiting-time using parking time is economical, effective and continuous monitoring method and to develop utilizing the method, this study was done. Method : In parking confirmation office, the personnel of parking office wrote parking confirm time, chart number and whether medical examination and treatment finish or not in parking ticket. The next day the parking tickets were gathered and the above data were input. The input parking data were connected with the hospital outpatient file indexing chart number. Then the patient' s data for department, new patient or not, reservation or not, receipt time and payment time were retrieved. The group for finishing medical treatment were compared with that for not finishing in average time lag between confirmation and out-time for hospital. And In-time for hospital, receipt time, payment and out-time for hospital were also analyzed. Result : Confirming parking ticket, the group for finished medical treatment left hospital after 7 minutes. This result showed that the patient for finished medical treatment left hospital immediately. So parking time was reasonable to estimation of hospital-time was concluded. The time for medical treatment, diagnosis and test was constant for all patients and short for waiting time, Then I concluded that the parking time was reasonable for estimation patient's waiting time. Overall patient's waiting time was 113 minutes and new patient's time was 149 minutes, old patient's times was 109 minutes. Waiting time for reservation patient was 98 minutes and for non reservation patient was 122 minutes. The time from hospital arrival to payment was 50 minutes for the group of reservation patient and 69 minutes for non-reservation group. The time from payment to hospital leaving was 51 minutes and 56 minutes for non reservation group. The short time difference between reserved group and not reserved group from payment to hospital leaving time was due to bottle neck effect. Conclusion : The estimation of patient's waiting time using parking time was reasonable because the possession of car was common and the time for medical treatment was equal and the patient after treatment left hospital immediately. Using this method, timely, fast evaluation and continuous monitoring of the intervention effect were possible.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.107-118
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• 2003

미국 도로용량편람(HCM)은 도심부 신호 교차로 운영상태 평가를 돕기 위하여 지체도 추정 수리모형을 제시하고 있다. 2000년도 개정판 HCM모형은 전문가들의 최근(up-to-date) 연구결과가 반영된 것이며 많은 교통공학자들에 의해 실무 및 연구에 활용되고 있다. HCM은 비보호 좌회전 움직임의 경우, 별도의 부가절차를 통해 포화교통류율을 보정할 것을 제시하고 있다. 그러나 HCM 지체도 산정 모형식은 보호현시 직진 움직임을 기준으로 설계된 모형이기 때문에 비보호 좌회전 움직임의 지체도를 과소 추정하는 문제점을 내제한다. 본 논문에서는 (1)HCM지체도 모형의 설계과정을 검토하고 (2)이를 토대로 HCM 지체도모형을 통한 비보호 좌회전 지체도 추정에 문제가 있음을 지적하고 (3)새로운 비보호 좌회전 지체도 추정 수리모형을 제안한다. 다양한 교통상황. 제어상황을 현장실험에서 통제함에 어려움이 있어 모의실험을 통한 제안모형의 검증을 수행하였다. 검증을 위해 마련된 120가지 경우의 다양한 비보호 좌회전 교통상황에서 (1)CORSIM 모의실험 지체도, (2)HCM 모형추정 지체도, (3)제안된 모형추정 지체도를 비교하였으며, 비교분석 결과 모의실험 지체도를 기준으로 HCM지체도 추정모형은 설명력이 0.47로, 제안된 모형의 설명력은 0.77로 분석되었다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.14-23
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• 2021

Background: For radiological protection and control, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) provides the nominal risk coefficients related to radiation exposure, which can be extrapolated using the excess relative risk and excess absolute risk obtained from the Life Span Study of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the dose and dose-rate effectiveness factor (DDREF). Materials and Methods: Since it is impossible to directly estimate the radiation risk at doses less than approximately 100 mSv only from epidemiological knowledge and data, support from radiation biology is absolutely imperative, and thus, several national and international bodies have advocated the importance of bridging knowledge between biology and epidemiology. Because of the accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2011, the exposure of the public to radiation has become a major concern and it was considered that the estimation of radiation risk should be more realistic to cope with the prevailing radiation exposure situation. Results and Discussion: To discuss the issues from wide aspects related to radiological protection, and to realize bridging knowledge between biology and epidemiology, we have established a research group to develop low-dose and low-dose-rate radiation risk estimation methodology, with the permission of the Japan Health Physics Society. Conclusion: The aim of the research group was to clarify the current situation and issues related to the risk estimation of low-dose and low-dose-rate radiation exposure from the viewpoints of different research fields, such as epidemiology, biology, modeling, and dosimetry, to identify a future strategy and roadmap to elucidate a more realistic estimation of risk against low-dose and low-dose-rate radiation exposure.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.415-419
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• 2008

Detecting and correcting defects on LCD glasses early in the manufacturing process becomes important for panel makers to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve productivity. Many attempts have been made and were successfully applied to detect and identify simple defects such as scratches, dents, and foreign objects on glasses. However, it is still difficult to robustly detect low-contrast defect region, called Mura or blemish area on glasses. Typically, these defect areas are roughly defined as relatively large, several millimeters of diameter, and relatively dark and/or bright region of low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) against background of low-frequency signal. The aim of this article is to present a robust algorithm to segment these blemish defects. Early 90's, a highly robust estimator, known as the Model-Fitting (MF) estimator was developed by X. Zhuang et. al. and have been successfully used in many computer vision application. Compared to the conventional Least-Square (LS) estimator the MF estimator can successfully estimate model parameters from a dataset of contaminated Gaussian mixture. Such a noise model is defined as a regular white Gaussian noise model with probability $1-\varepsilon$ plus an outlier process with probability $varepsilon$. In the sense of robust estimation, the blemish defect in images can be considered as being a group of outliers in the process of estimating image background model parameters. The algorithm developed in this paper uses a modified MF estimator to robustly estimate the background model and as a by-product to segment the blemish defects, the outliers.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.1571-1576
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 잡음 환경 하에서 음성신호에 대한 신호대잡음비(SNR)를 개선하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 알고리즘은 백색잡음 및 자동차잡음 등과 같은 배경잡음으로부터 음성신호의 SNR을 개선할 목적으로 먼저 저역, 중역, 고역 SNR 대역에서 SNR을 추정한다. 다음으로 본 알고리즘은 각 대역에서 스펙트럼을 강조함으로써 잡음으로 오염된 음성신호 속에서 잡음신호를 차감한다. 백색잡음, 자동차잡음에 의하여 오염된 음성에 대하여 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘이 스펙트럼 차감 방법과 비교하여 양호한 신호대잡음비 값을 구하였다. 실험결과로부터 스펙트럼 차감 방법과 비교하여 백색잡음에 대하여 최대 4.2 dB, 자동차잡음에 대하여 최대 3.7 dB의 출력 신호대잡음비가 개선된 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.667-678
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• 2020

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to improve portion size estimation aids (PSEAs) used in the nutrition survey of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) and validate the accuracy and precision of the newly developed aids. SUBJECTS/METHODS: We conducted intensive interviews with survey experts in KNHANES and consulted with experts to collect opinions about improvement of PSEAs. Based on the results of the interviews, 5 types of PSEAs (rice bowl, earthen pots, mounds, measuring spoons, and thickness sticks) were newly developed using 3-dimensional (3D) modeling or modification of color or shape. Validation tests were conducted with 96 adults 20 years old or older. For the rice bowl and earthen pots, the participants were asked to select the more similar PSEA in size after being shown the real dishes. For the mounds, measuring spoons, and thickness sticks, the participants were presented with actual plates of food and asked to estimate the given portion sizes using the given PSEAs. RESULTS: The improved 2-dimensional (2D) picture aid for the rice bowl reflecting the size distortion by angle of view using 3D modeling was perceived more closely to the actual size than the current 2D picture (P < 0.001). The change of the color of 2D pictures and 3D models, the change of shape of the measuring spoons, and the 3-dimensionalization of the 2D mounds had no significant improvement in the subjects' perception. CONCLUSIONS: The currently used 2D PSEAs need to be fully redesigned using 3D modeling to improve subjects' perception. However, change of color or shape will not be necessary. For amorphous foods, it is suggested that more evaluation be performed before reaching a final conclusion in the use of PSEAs, or alternative ways to improve accuracy of estimation need to be explored.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2014

There has been a rapid increase of the concern on the space radiation effect on pilots, crew and passengers at the commercial aircraft altitude (~ 10 km) recently. It is because domestic airline companies, Korean Air and Asiana Airlines have just begun operating the polar routes over the North Pole since 2006 and 2009 respectively. CARI-6 and CARI-6M are commonly used space radiation estimation programs which are provided officially by the U.S. federal aviation administration (FAA). In this paper, the route doses and the annual radiation doses for Korean pilots and cabin crew were estimated by using CARI-6M based on 2012 flight records. Also the modeling concept was developed for our own space radiation estimation program which is composed of GEANT4 and NRLMSIS00 models. The GEANT4 model is used to trace the incident particle transports in the atmosphere and the NRLMSIS00 model is used to get the background atmospheric densities of various neutral atoms at the aircraft altitude. Also presented are the results of simple integration tests of those models and the plan to include the space weather variations through the solar proton event (SPE) prediction model such as UMASEP and the galactic cosmic ray (GCR) prediction model such as Badhwar-O'Neill 2010.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.603-611
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 잡음 환경에서 보다 강인한 성능을 얻기 위하여 음성 모델 기반의 효과적인 특징 보상 기법을 제안한다. 일반적인 모델 기반의 특징 보상 기법은 오열 음성 데이터베이스를 이용한 훈련 과정을 필요로 하므로 온라인 상에서의 적응 과정에 적합하지 않다. 제안한 방법에서는 보정 인자 추정 과정에서 병렬 모델 결합 기법을 도입함으로써 훈련 과정을 필요하지 않게 하였다. 모델의 결합 과정이 HMM 전체가 아닌 가우시안 혼합 (Mixture) 모델에만 적용이 되므로, 계산이 비교적 간단하게 되어 온라인 상에서의 모델 결합을 가능하게 하였다. 병렬적 모델 결합의 도입은 잡음 모델의 독립적인 이용을 가능하게 하였고, 본 논문에서는 MAP (Maximum A Posteriori) 적응을 통해 잡음 모델 갱신을 실시하였다 또한 잡음 오열 과정에 대한 근사화를 통해 연속적 형태의 채널 정규화 기법을 유도하여 적용하였다. 보다 효율적인 구현을 위하여 선택적인 모델 결합 방식을 도입함으로써 연산량을 줄일 수 있는 방법을 제시하였다. 제안한 특징 보상 기법이 부가적인 배경 잡음과 채널 왜곡이 존재하는 잡음 환경에서 음성 인식 시스템의 성능을 향상시키는데 효과적임을 실험을 통해 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2016

Background: Industrial X-ray CT system is normally applied to non-destructive testing (NDT) for industrial product made from metal. Furthermore there are some special CT systems, which have an ability to inspect nuclear fuel assemblies or rocket motors, using high power and high energy (more than 6 MeV) pulsed X-ray source. In these case, pulsed X-ray are produced by the electron linear accelerator, and a huge number of photons with a wide energy spectrum are produced within a very short period. Consequently, it is difficult to measure the X-ray energy spectrum for such accelerator-based X-ray sources using simple spectrometry. Due to this difficulty, unexpected images and artifacts which lead to incorrect density information and dimensions of specimens cannot be avoided in CT images. For getting highly precise CT images, it is important to know the precise energy spectrum of emitted X-rays. Materials and Methods: In order to realize it we investigated a new approach utilizing the Bayesian estimation method combined with an attenuation curve measurement using step shaped attenuation material. This method was validated by precise measurement of energy spectrum from a 1 MeV electron accelerator. In this study, to extend the applicable X-ray energy range we tried to measure energy spectra of X-ray sources from 6 and 9 MeV linear accelerators by using the recently developed method. Results and Discussion: In this study, an attenuation curves are measured by using a step-shaped attenuation materials of aluminum and steel individually, and the each X-ray spectrum is reconstructed from the measured attenuation curve by the spectrum type Bayesian estimation method. Conclusion: The obtained result shows good agreement with simulated spectra, and the presently developed technique is adaptable for high energy X-ray source more than 6 MeV.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.2-10
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• 2020

Background: Huge amounts of radionuclides were released into the environment due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, which caused not only serious contamination on the ground, but also radiation exposure to the public. One problem that remains in performing the dose estimation is the difficulty of estimating the internal thyroid dose due to the intake of radioiodine (mainly, ¹³¹I) because of limitations to the human data available. Materials and Methods: The relevant papers were collected and reviewed by the authors. The results of thyroid dose estimates from different studies were tabulated for comparison. Results and Discussion: The thyroid dose estimates from the studies varied widely. The dose estimates by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation were higher than the others due to the ingestion dose being based on conservative assumptions. The dose estimates by Japanese experts were mostly below 20-30 mSv. The recent studies suggested that exposure on March 12, 2011 would be crucial for late evacuees from the areas near the FD-NPP because of the possible intake of short-lived radionuclides other than ¹³¹I. Further multilateral studies are vital to reduce uncertainties in the present dose estimations. Conclusion: The estimation of the thyroid doses to Fukushima residents still has many uncertainties. However, it is considered unlikely that the thyroid doses exceeded 50 mSv except in some extreme cases. Further multilateral studies are thus necessary to reduce the uncertainties in the present dose estimations.