• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.319-325
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• 2012

Objective: The aim of this study was to develop the assistive device for accelerator and brake pedals using bio-signals from the prefrontal lobe in the driving simulator and evaluate its performance. Background: There is lack of assistive devices for the driving in peoples with disabilities in Korea. However, if bio-signals and/or brain waves are used at driving a car, the people with serious physical limitations can improve their community mobility. Method: 15 subjects with driver's license participated in this study for experiment of driving performance evaluation in the simulator. Each subject drove the simulator the same course 10 times in three separated groups which use different interface controllers to accelerate and brake: (1) conventional pedal group, (2) joystick group and (3) bio-signal group(horizontal quick glance of the eyes and clench teeth). All experiments were recorded and the driving performances were evaluated by three inspectors. Results: Average score of bio-signal group for the driving in the simulator was increased 3% compared with the pedal group and was increased 9% compared with the joystick group(p<0.01). The subjects using bio-signals was decreased 44% in number of deduction compared with others because the device had the built-in modified cruise control. Conclusion: The assistive device for accelerator and brake pedals using bio-signals showed significantly better performance than using general pedal and a joystick interface(p<0.01). Application: This study can be used to design adaptive vehicle for driving in people with disabilities.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.261-268
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• 1998

위전도는 피부전극을 이용하여 위에서 발생하는 전기신호를 측정하여 위운동상태를 측정하는 비관혈적인 검사방법이다. 본 연구에서는 임상적으로 유용한 위전도신호 측정 및 분석시스템을 개발하였으며, 개발시스템은 크게 하드웨어(생체증폭기, 필터)와 소프트웨어(유저인터페이스, 분석알고리듬, 환자데이터베이스)로 구성된다. 개발시스템의 생체신호증폭기는 신호분석에 용이하도록 3채널로 구성되어 있으며, 신호의 저장 및 분석은 PC에서 수행하도록 구성되어 있다. 위수축 정보의 획득을 위해서 분석신호는 16Hz로 샘플링하였으며, 위전도신호분석은 임상이용에 유용한 여러 가지 분석 파라메터를 추출할 수 있도록 하였다. 개발된 시스템은 동물실험을 통하여 성능을 평가하였으며, 현재 환자를 대상으로 임상시험이 진행중이다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.197-202
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 영아 돌연사를 방지하기 위해 영아의 생체신호를 분석하여 위험상황이 발생했을 때 보호자에게 위험신호를 알려주는 영아 돌연사 모니터링 시스템을 제안한다. 영아 돌연사(SID)는 생후 한 달에서 일년 사이의 건강한 아기가 원인불명으로 사망하는 것을 말한다. 제안한 영아 돌연사 모니터링 시스템은 생체신호를 센싱하는 부분과 생체 신호를 처리하는 프로세서부와 모니터링 및 알람부분으로 구성된다. PPG 센서를 사용하여 생체신호를 센싱하고 프로세서부에서는 센서를 통해 획득한 신호를 동잡음을 제거하여 부모에게 알람 및 모니터링 할 수 있게 하였다. 제안한 시스템은 영아의 심박동을 분석하여 위험상황인 경우 보호자에게 모니터링 및 경고 알람을 보내게 된다. 시스템의 실제 구현을 통해 모니터링 시스템의 성능을 평가하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.22-28
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• 2015

This study demonstrates a polyimide nerve cuff electrode with a conductive polymer for improving recording signal quality at peripheral nerve. The nerve cuff electrodes with platinum (Pt), iridium oxide (IrOx), and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): p-toluene sulfonate (PEDOT:pTS) were fabricated and investigated their electrical characteristics for improving recorded nerve signal quality. The fabricated nerve cuff electrodes with Pt, IrOx, and PEDOT:pTS were characterized their impedance and CDC by using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and cyclic voltammetry. The impedance of PEDOT:pTS measured at 1 kHz was $257{\Omega}$, which was extremely lower than the value of the nerve cuff electrodes with IrOx ($15897{\Omega}$) and Pt ($952{\Omega}$), respectively. Furthermore, the charge delivery capacity (CDC) of the nerve cuff electrode with PEDOT:pTS was dramatically increased to 62 times than the nerve cuff electrode with IrOx. In ex-vivo test using extracted sciatic nerve of spaque-dawley rat (SD rat), the PEDOT:pTS group exhibited higher signal-to-interference ratio than IrOx group. These results indicated that the nerve cuff electrode with PEDOT:pTS is promising for effective implantable nerve signal recording.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.195-202
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• 2011

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate and review the previous researches about objective measuring fatigue caused by visual stimuli. Also, we analyze possibility of alternative visual fatigue measurement methods using facial expression recognition and gesture recognition. Background: In most previous researches, visual fatigue is commonly measured by survey or interview based subjective method. However, the subjective evaluation methods can be affected by individual feeling's variation or other kinds of stimuli. To solve these problems, signal and image processing based visual fatigue measurement methods have been widely researched. Method: To analyze the signal and image processing based methods, we categorized previous works into three groups such as bio-signal, brainwave, and eye image based methods. Also, the possibility of adopting facial expression or gesture recognition to measure visual fatigue is analyzed. Results: Bio-signal and brainwave based methods have problems because they can be degraded by not only visual stimuli but also the other kinds of external stimuli caused by other sense organs. In eye image based methods, using only single feature such as blink frequency or pupil size also has problem because the single feature can be easily degraded by other kinds of emotions. Conclusion: Multi-modal measurement method is required by fusing several features which are extracted from the bio-signal and image. Also, alternative method using facial expression or gesture recognition can be considered. Application: The objective visual fatigue measurement method can be applied into the fields of quantitative and comparative measurement of visual fatigue of next generation display devices in terms of human factor.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2011년도 제42회 하계학술대회
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• pp.2055-2056
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• 2011

As rapid aging and high economic level, people are interested in their wellness. And it needs to examine the condition of their health constantly. Proposed device can measure bio-signal by connecting several measurement modules such as spirometric module, blood glucose measurement module, uro-flow measurement module and temperature measurement module. These modules can be chosen as occasion demands. In addition, developed user program enables patients to monitor bio-signal at their own place via the personal computer.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.1856-1864
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• 2017

The ultimate goal of multimedia in bio-signal research is to approach multimedia contents through bio-signal. Hence it is important to interpret user's emotions by analyzing his or her bio-signals. In this paper, we construct ERP task of oddball component to analyze EEG signal between normal stimuli and fear stimuli and measure EEG during ERP task. The results from extracted ERP component show that there is a difference in N200 in visual stimuli, P300 in auditory stimuli, and N100 and P300. Moreover, there are larger changes in audiovisual stimuli, indicating that users recognize greater fear of crime when visual and auditory stimuli are simultaneously presented.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.871-872
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• 2006

In this paper, we designed bio-signal acquisition system in Magnetic Resonance Imager(MRI) Environment. In MRI Environment, Strong RF Pulse and Gradient Field Switching Noise exist and can cause distortion of ECG. By this, ECG can lose their important information. So we proposed a bio-signal acquisition system with robust immunity to RF pulse and gradient switching noise. In conclusions, the proposed system showed the prevent saturation of measured biosignal and possibility of using cardiac gating and respiration gating method.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.238-240
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• 2018

최근에는 다양한 생체신호 분석 툴을 활용하여 건강관리서비스가 개발 및 연구되고 있다. 대부분의 생체신호 분석 연구는 Matlab 및 R Programming을 활용한다. 그러나, Matlab과 R Programming으로 개발한 알고리즘을 시스템에 적용하기 위해서는 소스 코드의 변환 작업이 필요하다. 본 논문은 소스 코드의 변환 작업을 생략할 수 있는 스마트 인터페이스를 제공하고자 한다.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2008년도 하계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.309-310
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• 2008

Polymer optical waveguides are fabricated with high-index materials deposited to strengthen exciations of evanescent field whose birefringence is utilized for optical sensing. Optical sensing properties are examined as a function of time, using different types of analyte solutions to extract noise-free signal induced by evanescent field birefringence. It is observed that sensing signal can be free of initial noise that may obscure real signal recognition, when glycerol is used for sensing characterization, due to slow accumulation process following adsorption of analyte material onto the sensing surface of the waveguide.