• Title/Summary/Keyword: Biological estimation

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Improvement of Ultrasound Images Using Motion Estimation and Recursive Filtering (Motion Estimation과 Recursive Filtering을 사용한 초음파 동화상의 개선)

  • Song, J.S.;Lee, J.K.;Yang, Y.J.;Choi, H.J.;Oh, C.H.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1995 no.05
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    • pp.123-126
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    • 1995
  • The purpose of this paper is to improve ultrasound images using motion estimation and recursive filtering. Although averaging without motion correction can make image blurring, the proposed estimation method improves image SNR without motion blurring by recursively averaging images with motion correction. Computer simulation on the proposed method has been performed to improve phantom and ultrasound fish images and the results show the utility of the proposed method.

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Polarography of Phenyl Mercuric Acetate (초산(醋酸)훼닐수은(水銀)의 Polarography)

  • Gang, Yeong-Gyu
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.1
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    • pp.26-33
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    • 1960
  • Organic mercurial fungicides, for seed treatments and dust formulations, has been increasingly used by farmers. Evaluation of the purity of organic mercurial fungicides has been performed by precipitation method at this laboratory. There are several methods for the an alyses of organic mercuric formulation, among which are (1) Precipitation met hod, (2) Volatilization method, (3) Volumetric method, and (4) Dithizon method. These methods, however, show some deffects in specificity (differentiation of organic form) and quantitativity. Polarography applied for the estimation of phenyl mercuric acetate was found to be simple, rapid and accurate. Tile fundamental method of polarography arid accuracy of analysis are discussed statistically and a satisfactory results was obtained.

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Chirality of Drug Molecules and Biological Activity (의약품의 손대칭성과 생리 활성)

  • 권순경
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.209-223
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    • 1996
  • Chirality is important in the context of biological activity because at a molecular level, asymmetry dominates biological process. While most pharmaceuticals of natural origin are single enantiomers, most of the synthesized chiral drugs are used in the form of racemic mixtures of two or more diastereomers. The enantiomers of a racemic drug generally differ in pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic properties as a consequence of stereoselective interaction with optically active molecular components of living organism. In pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics enantioselectivity plays an important role. The information on the sum of eutomer and distorter in a racemic drugs is very important in the estimation of therapeutic advantage and/or toxicity of racemates. The choice of preferentially developing a single enantiomer should be based on actual therapeutic advantages and especially improved safety.

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ELECTRON TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION OF NON-THERMAL ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE NEON AND OXYGEN ADMIXTURE PLASMA JET BY CONVECTIVE WAVE PACKET MODEL

  • SORNSAKDANUPHAP, Jirapong;SUANPOOT, Pradoong;Hong, Young June;Ghimire, Bhagirath;CHO, Guangsup;CHOI, EunHa
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2016.02a
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    • pp.207-207
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    • 2016
  • plasma group velocities of neon with oxygen admixture (ug) are obtained by intensified charge coupled device (ICCD) camera images at fixed gate width time of 5 ns. The propagation velocities outside interelectrode region are in the order of 104 m/s.The plasma ambipolar diffusion velocities are calculated to be in the order of 102 m/s. Plasma jet is generated by all fixed sinusoidal power supply, total gas flow and repetition frequency at 3 kV, 800 sccm and 40 kHz, respectively. The amount of oxygen admixture is varied from 0 to 2.75 %. By employing one dimensional convective wave packet model, the electron temperatures in non-thermal atmospheric-pressure plasma jet are estimated to be in a range from 1.65 to 1.95 eV.

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ELECTRON TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION OF NON-THERMAL ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE NEON AND ARGON PLASMA JET BY CONVECTIVE WAVE PACKET MODEL

  • SORNSAKDANUPHAP, Jirapong;SUANPOOT, Pradoong;Hong, Young June;Ghimire, Bhagirath;CHO, Guangsup;CHOI, Eun Ha
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2015.08a
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    • pp.156.1-156.1
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    • 2015
  • Neon and argon plasma group velocities (ug) are obtained by intensified charge coupled device (ICCD) camera images at fixed gate width time of 5 ns. The propagation velocities in upstream and downstream region are in the order of 104-105 m/s. The plasma ambipolar diffusion velocities are calculated to be in the order of 101-102 m/s. Plasma jet is generated by sinusoidal power supply in varying voltages from 1 to 4 kV at repetition frequency of 40 kHz. By employing one dimensional convective wave packet model, the neon and argon electron temperatures in non-thermal atmospheric-pressure plasma jet are estimated to be 1.95 and 1.18 eV, respectively.

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Estimation of Net Community Production Based on O2/Ar Measurements (O2/Ar 관측에 기반한 순군집생산량 추정 연구 동향)

  • HAHM, DOSHIK;LEE, INHEE
    • The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.49-62
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    • 2018
  • Net community production (NCP), defined as the difference between net primary production and respiration of heterotrophs, has been used as a measure of oceanic biological carbon pump. This paper summarizes the theoretical background and experimental methods for the estimation of NCP based on $O_2/Ar$ measurements ($O_2/Ar-NCP$). The high frequency measurements of $O_2/Ar-NCP$ (<1 min) is a significant enhancement over the conventional measures of biological pump, such as new production and export production. This paper also introduces some of important works as to the comparison between $O_2/Ar-NCP$ and other measures of biological pump, the distributions of $O_2/Ar-NCP$ in the oceans, and the correlation of $O_2/Ar-NCP$ with various oceanic parameters, including community structures.

EMG-Based Muscle Torque Estimation for FES Control System Design

  • Hyun, Bo-Ra;Song, Tong-Jin;Hwang, Sun-Hee;Khang, Gon;Eom, Gwang-Moon;Lee, Moon-Suk;Lee, Bum-Suk
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2007
  • This study was designed to investigate the feasibility to utilize the electromyogram (EMG) for estimating the muscle torque. The muscle torque estimation plays an important role in functional electrical stimulation because electrical stimulation causes muscles to fatigue much faster than voluntary contraction, and the stimulation intensity should then be modified to keep the muscle torque within the desired range. We employed the neural network method which was trained using the major EMG parameters and the corresponding knee extensor torque measured and extracted during isometric contractions. The experimental results suggested that (1) our neural network algorithm and protocol was feasible to be adopted in a real-time feedback control of the stimulation intensity, (2) the training data needed to cover the entire range of the measured value, (3) different amplitudes and frequencies made little difference to the estimation quality, and (4) a single input to the neural network led to a better estimation rather than a combination of two or three. Since this study was done under a limited contraction condition, the results need more experiments under many different contraction conditions, such as during walking, for justification.

In vitro Estimation of Cardiac Output for the TAH using an Adaptive Fuzzy Identifier

  • Choi, W.W.;Jo, Y.H.;Ahn, J.M.;Park, S.K.;Choi, J.S.;Om, K.S.;Lee, J.J.;Choi, J.H.;Kim, H.C.;Min, B.G.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1996 no.11
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    • pp.263-267
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    • 1996
  • An estimation algorithm based on training of fuzzy logic system using back-propagation is proposed, in this paper, for determining cardiac output in the TAH. The proposed estimation utilizes only a motor current waveform generated from the moving actuator of the electromechanical TAH without using any extra transducers as an information source for estimation. In in vitro tests, the resultant estimation performance was acceptable to alppy the proposed algorithm to animal experiments and further clinical applications.

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Estimation of Cattle Wastewater Treatment using Singang Advance Biology Reactor (SAB) (SAB 고율미생물반응기를 이용한 축산폐수처리의 성능 평가)

  • Lim, Bongsu;Kim, Doyoung;Park, Sungsoon
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.727-734
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    • 2009
  • This study was carried out to evaluate the high rate biological reactor such as lab scale reactor before the application in site, and to get the basic data for possibility using liquid fertilizer with the effluent from biological reactor when the centrifugal machine was applied. The total volume of this reactor in 6 L, in composted of anoxic reactor (2 L), aerobic reactor (2 L), and nitification reactor (2 L). BOD removal efficiency rates when centrifugal machine was applied after effluent from biological reactor are over than 95%. This biological reactor was required post process to satisfy the effluent standards, and was need centrifugal machine to control the washout of microbes in the reactor. T-N removal efficiency rate in HRT 24 hr with centrifugation is 80.0%, and it is desirable to operate less than $1.3kgN/m^3{\cdot}d$ for 70% of T-N removal efficiency rate. T-P removal efficiency rate in HRT 24 hr is 68.2%, and become higher 71.3% after centrifugation. Considering in the 28.6% T-N removal efficiency rate, the nitrogen contents of the effluent from reactor is 0.34% to satisfy the liquid fertilizer.

A Study on the Pattern Classification of EMG and Muscle Force Estimation (근전도의 패턴분류와 근력 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Jang Woo;Jang, Young gun;Jung, Dong Myung;Hong, Seung Hong
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 1992
  • In the field of prosthesis arm control, the pattern classification of the EMG signal is a required basis process and also the estimation of force from collected EMG data is another necessary duty. But unfortunately, what we've got is not real force but an EMG signal which contains the information of force. This is the reason why we estimate the force from the EMG data. In this paper, when we handle the EMG signal to estimate the force, spatial prewhitening process is applied from which the spatial correlation between the channels are removed. And after the orthogonal transformation which is used in the force estimation process, the transformed signal Is inputed into the probabilistic model for pattern classification. To verify the different results of the multiple channels, SNR(signal to noise ratio) function is introduced.

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