• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2019

This study relates to acquiring biological signal without attaching directly to the user using UWB(Ultra Wide Band) radar. The collected information is the respiratory rate, heart rate, and the degree of movement during sleep, and this information is used to measure the sleep state. A breathing measurement algorithm and a sleep state detection algorithm were developed to graph the measured data. Information about the sleep state will be used as a personalized diagnosis by connecting with the medical institution and contribute to the prevention of sleep related diseases. In addition, biological signal will be linked to various sensors in the era of the 4th industrial revolution, leading to smart healthcare, which will make human life more enriching.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2021

Sleep apnea refers to a condition in which a person does not breathe during sleep, and is a dangerous symptom that blocks oxygen supply in the body, causing various complications, and the elderly and infants can die if severe. In this paper, we present an algorithm that classifies sleep breathing by analyzing the intensity of breathing with images alone in preparation for the risk of sleep apnea. Only the chest of the person being measured is set to the Region of Interest (ROI) to determine the breathing strength by the differential image within the corresponding ROI area. The adult was selected as the target of the measurement and the breathing strength was measured accurately, and the difference in breathing intensity was also distinguished using depth information. Two videos of sleeping babies also show that even microscopic breathing motions smaller than adults can be detected, which is also expected to help prevent infant death syndrome (SIDS).

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권6호
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• pp.794-798
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• 2018

There is a growing need for a care system that can continuously monitor, manage and effectively relieve stress for modern people. In recent years, mobile healthcare devices capable of measuring heart rate have become popular, and many stress monitoring techniques using heart rate variability analysis have been actively proposed and commercialized. In addition, respiratory biofeedback methods are used to provide stress relieving services in environments using mobile healthcare devices. In this case, breathing information should be measured well to assess whether the user is doing well in biofeedback training. In this study, we extracted the heart beat interval signal from the PPG and used the oscillator based notch filter based on the IIR band pass filter to track the strongest frequency in the heart beat interval signal. The respiration signal was then estimated by filtering the heart beat interval signal with this frequency as the center frequency. Experimental results showed that the number of breathing could be measured accurately when the subject was guided to take a deep breath. Also, in the timeing measurement of inspiration and expiration, a time delay of about 1 second occurred. It is expected that this will provide a respiratory biofeedback service that can assess whether or not breathing exercise are performed well.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.214-217
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 원거리에서의 IR-UWB 레이더 센서기반 수면 효율 측정 알고리즘을 제안한다. IR-UWB 레이더로 수면 중 측정 가능한 호흡수, 심박수, 움직임 등의 생체 지표 중 움직임과 수면 효율과의 관련성을 분석하고, 움직임을 기반으로 한 수면 효율 측정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이에 대한 타당성 및 성능검증을 위해 실제 병원에서의 수면다원검사 환자 3명에 대하여 본 알고리즘을 적용한 결과 평균 3.9% 이내의 절대오차를 갖는 검출성능을 얻었다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.108-112
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• 2018

In this paper, a respiration measurement method using FMCW signal for off-the-shelf smartphone is presented and investigated. The proposed algorithm transmits FMCW signal periodically instead of transmitting continuously so that one can reduce the power consumption from speaker in smartphone and the algorithm complexity. In order to eliminate the clicking noise generated when transmitting FMCW signal, Tukey window with ${\alpha}=0.01$ is applied to prevent the noise from being heard. An application program for Android OS which can transmit FMCW signal through speaker and record the reflected signals through MIC has been developed. Since the total duration of the signal transmission is set to 20msec per 1 second for the experiments, the power consumption can be decreased by 80% compared to the continuous transmission. It was confirmed that the clicking noise is inaudible as long as a smartphone is located at more than 10cm from ears. In the experiments on a sleeping child, the breathing signal of about 0.27Hz was measured.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제30권11호
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• pp.1051-1056
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• 2006

The mean and RMS velocity field of the respiratory gas flow in the human airway was studied experimentally by particle image velocimetry (PIV). Some researchers investigated the airflow for the mouth breathing case both experimentally and numerically. But it is very rare to investigate the airflow of nose breathing in a whole airway due to its geometric complexity. We established the procedure to create a transparent rectangular box containing a model of the human airway for PIV measurement by combination of the RP and the curing of clear silicone. We extend this to make a whole airway including nasal cavities, larynx, trachea, and 2 generations of bronchi. The CBC algorithm with window offset (64 $\times$ 64 to 32 $\times$ 32) is used for vector searching in PIV analysis. The phase averaged mean and RMS velocity distributions in Sagittal and coronal planes are obtained for 7 phases in a respiratory period. Some physiologic conjectures are obtained. The main stream went through the backside of larynx and trachea in inspiration and the frontal side in expiration. There exist vortical motions in inspiration, but no prominent one in expiration.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.17-23
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• 2017

In this paper, we implemented a respiration measurement system consisting of piezoelectric sensor, respiration signal processing device, and a viewer on a notebook. We tried an experiment for measuring respiration and detecting sleep apnea syndrome when a subject lay on a bed. We applied the respiration measurement algorithm to sensor data obtained from four subjects. In order to get a good graph shape, data manipulation methods such as moving averages and maximum values were applied. The window size for moving average was chosen as N=70, and the threshold value for each subject was customized. In this case, the proposed system showed 96.0% accuracy. When the maximum value among 90 data was applied instead of moving average, our system achieved 95.1% accuracy. In an experiment for detecting sleep apnea syndrome, the system showed that sleep apnea occurred correctly and calculated the average interval of sleep apnea. While infants or the elderly as well as patients with sleep apnea syndrome are lying down on a bed, our results are also expected to be able to cope with some accidental emergency situation by observing their respiration and detecting sleep apnea.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.322-327
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• 2020

최근 도플러 레이더를 이용하여 생체 신호를 획득하는 연구가 개발되어 병상의 환자들에게 적용되는 기술로 사용되고 있다. 하지만 측정되는 맥박의 경우 호흡 신호가 잡음으로 발생하여 정확도가 낮아지는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 도플러 레이더를 이용하여 생체신호를 측정할 때 맥박을 측정하기 위한 신호의 정확도를 향상시키기 위한 샘플링 시점 기반의 생체 신호 측정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 두 개의 샘플링 시점을 기반으로 생체 신호 측정 시 발생되는 잡음을 제거하여 측정 생체 신호의 정확도를 높이는 것으로 실제 의료 장비 및 기존 생체 신호 알고리즘과 비교하였을 때, 의료 장비와 90% 이상의 유사함을 보이며, 또한 기존 알고리즘에 비해 심한 진폭의 변화가 최소화 된 것을 확인하였다.

• 예술인문사회 융합 멀티미디어 논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.957-966
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• 2018

최근 들어 고령화 및 1인 가구 증가로 인해 IoT기반 원격환자모니터링에 대한 요구가 증대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 원격환자모니터링을 위한 다중의 IR-UWB레이더를 이용한 비접촉식 생체신호측정시스템을 제안하였다. 기존에는 생체신호처리를 위해 배경차분알고리즘을 적용하였으나, 전압노이즈, 계단현상 등의 에러 발생을 없애고자 다중 배경차분 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 다중배경차분알고리즘은 이전 클러터와 현재 클러터의 변화량을 계산하여 신호를 추출하며, 본 연구에서는 SVD알고리즘을 이용하였다. 개선된 다중배경차분알고리즘을 생체신호측정에 응용하여 고속 푸리에 변환을 통해 호흡수를 계산하였다. 제안한 IR-UWB레이더를 이용한 시스템 및 다중배경차분알고리즘의 검증을 위해 호흡수 측정을 진행하였다. Neulog사의 부착형 공기압착식 호흡측정기를 대조군으로 실험한 결과 97.36%의 정밀도를 확보함으로서 본 연구의 타당성을 검증하였다. 구현된 알고리즘은 기존의 접촉식 웨어러블 방식의 불편함을 개선하였다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.240-246
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• 2022

In order to measure the respiratory rate, one of the major vital signs, many devices have been developed and related studies have been conducted. In particular, as the number of wearers of respirators increases in the COVID-19 pandemic situation, studies have been conducted to measure the respiratory rate of the wearer by attaching an electronic sensor to the respirator, but most of them are cases in which an air flow sensor or a microphone sensor is used. In this study, we design and develop a system that measures the respiratory rate of the wearer using an air pressure sensor in a respirator. Air pressure sensors are inexpensive and consume less power than the other sensors. In addition, since the amount of data required for calculation is small and the algorithm is simple, it is suitable for small-scale and low-power processing devices such as Arduino. We developed an algorithm to measure the respiratory rate of a respirator wearer by analysing air pressure change patterns. In addition, variables that can affect air pressure changes were selected, and experimental scenarios were designed according to the variables. According to the designed scenario, we collected air pressure data while the respirator wearer was breathing. The performance of the developed system was evaluated using the collected data.