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The current status and strategies of livestock health control on national and international basis (국내.외 가축위생관리기준의 현황, 적용과 대책)

  • Ryu, Il-Sun
    • 한국환경농학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.07a
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    • pp.240-272
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    • 2009
  • Recently, as Foot and Mouth disease(FMD) outbreaks in South-East Asia, Taiwan, China, we cannot loose our tense to sustain our FMD free country status. And we have increasing possibility of disease inflow because of continual outbreaks of FMD type A, O and Asia 1 in neighbored countries, foreign visitor and foreign workers. So we have to be urgently ready for strengthen surveillance, early-report and early-diagnosis. So the most important things in epidemic control of livestock are co-work between central and local epidemic control office and field epidemic control. However, potential risk for FMD recurrence and sporadic occurrence of epidemic disease still threaten our livestock farmhouse, so we have to be ready for bio-security against these threatening. For these reasons, I will introduce the concept, etiology and epidemiology of disease and investment/ analysis of health management standard of main animals like cattle and pig which is applied to the inside and outside of country. With these references, we have to manage livestock health management thoroughly by establishing livestock health management standard and notifying special veterinarian and livestock farmer of these standard. Later on, prevention and quarantine of epidemic outbreak and establishing livestock health management standard should be undertaken primarily for sustainable growth and stability of livestock farm industry.

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CardioSentinal: A 24-hour Heart Care and Monitoring System

  • Gao, Min;Zhang, Qian;Ni, Lionel;Liu, Yunhuai;Tang, Xiaoxi
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.67-78
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    • 2012
  • People are willing to spend more for their health. Traditional medical services are hospital-centric and patients obtain their treatments mainly at the clinics or hospitals. As people age, more medical services are needed to exceed the potentials of this hospital-centric service model. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of CardioSentinal, a 24-hour heart care and monitoring system. CardioSentinal is designed for in-home and daily medical services. It mainly focuses on the outpatients and elderly. CardioSentinal is an interdisciplinary system that integrates recent advances in many fields such as bio-sensors, small-range wireless communications, pervasive computing, cellular networks and modern data centers. We conducted numerous clinic trials for CardioSentinal. Experimental results show that the sensitivity and accuracy are quite high. It is not as good as the professional measurements in hospital due to harsh environments but the system provides valuable information for heart diseases with low-cost and extreme convenience. Some early experiences and lessons in the work will also be reported.

A review of big data analytics and healthcare (빅데이터 분석과 헬스케어에 대한 동향)

  • Moon, Seok-Jae;Lee, Namju
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.76-82
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    • 2020
  • Big data analysis in healthcare research seems to be a necessary strategy for the convergence of sports science and technology in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The purpose of this study is to provide the basic review to secure the diversity of big data and healthcare convergence by discussing the concept, analysis method, and application examples of big data and by exploring the application. Text mining, data mining, opinion mining, process mining, cluster analysis, and social network analysis is currently used. Identifying high-risk factor for a certain condition, determining specific health determinants for diseases, monitoring bio signals, predicting diseases, providing training and treatments, and analyzing healthcare measurements would be possible via big data analysis. As a further work, the big data characteristics provide very appropriate basis to use promising software platforms for development of applications that can handle big data in healthcare and even more in sports science.

Improvement of Active Shape Model for Detecting Face Features in iOS Platform (iOS 플랫폼에서 Active Shape Model 개선을 통한 얼굴 특징 검출)

  • Lee, Yong-Hwan;Kim, Heung-Jun
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.61-65
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    • 2016
  • Facial feature detection is a fundamental function in the field of computer vision such as security, bio-metrics, 3D modeling, and face recognition. There are many algorithms for the function, active shape model is one of the most popular local texture models. This paper addresses issues related to face detection, and implements an efficient extraction algorithm for extracting the facial feature points to use on iOS platform. In this paper, we extend the original ASM algorithm to improve its performance by four modifications. First, to detect a face and to initialize the shape model, we apply a face detection API provided from iOS CoreImage framework. Second, we construct a weighted local structure model for landmarks to utilize the edge points of the face contour. Third, we build a modified model definition and fitting more landmarks than the classical ASM. And last, we extend and build two-dimensional profile model for detecting faces within input images. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on experimental test set containing over 500 face images, and found to successfully extract facial feature points, clearly outperforming the original ASM.

Finding All-Pairs Suffix-Prefix Matching Using Suffix Array (접미사 배열을 이용한 Suffix-Prefix가 일치하는 모든 쌍 찾기)

  • Han, Seon-Mi;Woo, Jin-Woon
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.17A no.5
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    • pp.221-228
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    • 2010
  • Since string operations were applied to computational biology, security and search for Internet, various data structures and algorithms for computing efficient string operations have been studied. The all-pairs suffix-prefix matching is to find the longest suffix and prefix among given strings. The matching algorithm is importantly used for fast approximation algorithm to find the shortest superstring, as well as for bio-informatics and data compressions. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to find all-pairs suffix-prefix matching using the suffix array, which takes O($k{\cdot}m$)�� time complexity. The suffix array algorithm is proven to be better than the suffix tree algorithm by showing it takes less time and memory through experiments.

Bio-inspired Structural Colors of Transparent Substrate based on Light Diffraction and Interference on Microscale and Nanoscale Structures (자연모사기반 나노-마이크로패턴의 광 회절 및 간섭에 의한 투명기판의 구조색 구현)

  • Park, Yong Min;Kim, Byeong Hee;Seo, Young Ho
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2019
  • This paper addresses effects of nanoscale structures on structural colors of micropatterned transparent substrate by light diffraction. Structural colors is widely investigated because they present colors without any chemical pigments. Typically structural colors is presented by diffraction of light on a micropatterned surface or by multiple interference of light on a surface containing a periodic or quasi-periodic nano-structures. In this paper, each structural colors induced by quasi-periodic nano-structures, periodic micro-structures, and nano/micro dual structures is measured in order to investigate effects of nanoscale and microscale structures on structural colors in the transparent substrate. Using pre-fabricated pattern mold and hot-embossing process, nanoscale and microscale structures are replicated on the transparent PMMA(Poly methyl methacrylate) substrate. Nanoscale and microscale pattern molds are prepared by anodic oxidation process of aluminum sheet and by reactive ion etching process of silicon wafer, respectively. Structural colors are captured by digital camera, and their optical transmittance spectrum are measured by UV/visible spectrometer. From experimental results, we found that nano-structures provide monotonic colors by multiple interference, and micro-structures induce iridescent colors by diffraction of light. Structural colors is permanent and unchangeable, thus it can be used in various application field such as security, color filter and so on.

Pyramidal Deep Neural Networks for the Accurate Segmentation and Counting of Cells in Microscopy Data

  • Vununu, Caleb;Kang, Kyung-Won;Lee, Suk-Hwan;Kwon, Ki-Ryong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.335-348
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    • 2019
  • Cell segmentation and counting represent one of the most important tasks required in order to provide an exhaustive understanding of biological images. Conventional features suffer the lack of spatial consistency by causing the joining of the cells and, thus, complicating the cell counting task. We propose, in this work, a cascade of networks that take as inputs different versions of the original image. After constructing a Gaussian pyramid representation of the microscopy data, the inputs of different size and spatial resolution are given to a cascade of deep convolutional autoencoders whose task is to reconstruct the segmentation mask. The coarse masks obtained from the different networks are summed up in order to provide the final mask. The principal and main contribution of this work is to propose a novel method for the cell counting. Unlike the majority of the methods that use the obtained segmentation mask as the prior information for counting, we propose to utilize the hidden latent representations, often called the high-level features, as the inputs of a neural network based regressor. While the segmentation part of our method performs as good as the conventional deep learning methods, the proposed cell counting approach outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.

Water/nutrient use efficiency and effect of fertigation: a review

  • Woojin Kim;Yejin Lee;Taek-Keun Oh;Jwakyung Sung
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.919-926
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    • 2022
  • Fertigation, which has been introduced in agricultural fields since 1990, has been widely practiced in upland fields as well as in plastic film houses as part of the crop production system. In accordance with demands in the agricultural sector, a huge number of scientific studies on fertigation have been conducted worldwide. Moreover, with a combination of advanced technologies such as big-data, machine learning, etc., fertigation is positioned as an indispensable tool to achieve sustainable crop production and to enhance nutrient and water use efficiency. In this review, we focused on providing valuable information in terms of crop production and nutrient/water use efficiency. A variety of fertigation studies have described that enhancement of crop production did not differ relative to conventional method or slightly increased. In contrast, fertigation significantly improved nutrient/water use efficiency, with a reduction in use ranging from 20 to 50%. Water-soluble organic resources such as livestock manure and agricultural byproducts also have been identified as useful resources like chemical fertilizers. Furthermore, the initial irrigation point was generally recommended in a range of -10 - -40 kPa, although the point differed according to the crop and crop growth stage. From this review, we suggest that fertigation, which is closely integrated with advanced technology, could be a leading technology to attain not only food security but also carbon neutrality via improvement of nutrient/water use efficiency.

An Analysis of the Demonstrational Cultivation Process and Effect of Selenium Supplemented Phellinus. linteus and Ganoderma. lucidum (베트남 호치민에서의 셀레늄상황과 셀레늄영지 버섯의 시범재배 과정과 성과분석)

  • Kim, J.H.;Suh, G.S.;Chang, H.Y.;Chang, K.J.;Lee, K.H.;Song, C.Y.
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.105-117
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    • 2007
  • This study was carried to analyze the demonstrational cultivation process of selenium supplemented P. linteus and G. lucidum from 2005 to 2006 and ifs effect at Hochimin Agricultural Technology College(HATC) in Vietnam, according to the mutual contract between the Yunjung-nongwon, a fanning company in Korea and HATC. As a result of the demonstrational cultivation of selenium supplemented P. linteus and G. lucidum, the external aspect, such as size, thickness and color of the P. linteus and G. lucidum were very much high qualified comparing to the same strain P. linteus and G. lucidum generally cultivated in Korea. The major contribution factors to this high qualified mushroom product could be drawn as followings; keeping growing condition of the mushroom with precise data collection of Vietnam climate and weather, involvement of the various professors of Korea National Agricultural College(KNAC), maintenance of bio-technical security through the strain cultivation on the oak log in Korea, the Yunjung-nongwon manager's endeavor being consulted by the various professors of KNAC even to be a student of the agricultural chief executive officer(CEO) training course in KNAC and the HATC's constant cooperation to the mushroom demonstrational cultivation instead of the orchid which was originally contracted item.

Reversible DNA Information Hiding based on Circular Histogram Shifting (순환형 히스토그램 쉬프팅 기반 가역성 DNA 정보은닉 기법)

  • Lee, Suk-Hwan;Kwon, Seong-Geun;Kwon, Ki-Ryong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.53 no.12
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    • pp.67-75
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    • 2016
  • DNA computing technology makes the interests on DNA storage and DNA watermarking / steganography that use the DNA information as a newly medium. DNA watermarking that embeds the external watermark into DNA information without the biological mutation needs the reversibility for the perfect recovery of host DNA, the continuous embedding and detecting processing, and the mutation analysis by the watermark. In this paper, we propose a reversible DNA watermarking based on circular histogram shifting of DNA code values with the prevention of false start codon, the preservation of DNA sequence length, and the high watermark capacity, and the blind detection. Our method has the following features. The first is to encode nucleotide bases of 4-character variable to integer code values by code order. It makes the signal processing of DNA sequence easy. The second is to embed the multiple bits of watermark into -order coded value by using circular histogram shifting. The third is to check the possibility of false start codon in the inter or intra code values. Experimental results verified the our method has higher watermark capacity 0.11~0.50 bpn than conventional methods and also the false start codon has not happened in our method.