• Korean Circulation Journal
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2024

Background and Objectives: The objective of this study was to estimate the supply and demand for cardiologists in Korea and provide evidence for healthcare policy to ensure a stable and adequate workforce for optimal cardiovascular disease management. Methods: Past trends of inflow and outflow of cardiologists were used to make crude projections, which were then adjusted based on demands of services to obtain final projections. Inflow of cardiologists was estimated using second-order polynomial regression and demand for cardiology care was estimated using linear regression. Results: There were 1,139 active cardiologists who were under the age of 65 in clinical practice in Korea. The estimated number of cardiologists from 2022 to 2040 showed that the number of cardiologists would peak at 1,344 in 2032 and gradually decrease thereafter. We also estimated an increase of 947,811 cases of heart-related procedures annually from 2023 to 2032. The number of heart-related procedures per cardiologist would increase 1.4 times from 12,964 in 2023 to 17,862 in 2032. The estimated number of emergency patients per cardiologist under 50 years old would almost double from 544 in 2022 to 987 in 2032. Conclusions: We expect significant shortage of cardiologists in Korea within the next 10 years. The number of emergency patients per cardiologist will increase by nearly 50%, leading to high individual workload for cardiologists. To prevent this imbalance between supply and demand, an organized and collective approach by the specialty of cardiology is imperative to produce a balanced workforce.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1995년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.186-189
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• 1995

This paper performed P wave detection algorithm for diagnosis in according to method of cardiologist's P wave detection. We used correlation pattern matching for prominent P waves and P-P interval estimation for ambiguous P waves. Results of this study indicate that this algorithm has potential for improving P wave detection performance.

• 대한장애인치과학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.18-22
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• 2009

A 26-year-old female patient with Down syndrome visited to recieve dental treatment under gnenral anesthesia 6 years ago. The patient had difficulties in oral examination, radiograph taking and laboratory test. The patient had congenital heart disease and medical consultation based on the echocardiography was provided by a cardiologist indicating that the patient could tolearte general anesthesia during dental treatment. And two times of general anesthesia were administered during a dental treament with the interval of 3 years and no postoperpative complicaton was reported. At the third dental operation, the patient had a relatively good condition and her prescreening test revealed no abnormalities. Without further consultation with a cardiologist, general anesthesia was administered to the patient. Anaesthesia was based on thiopental and ventilation of desflurane and $N_2O$ in oxygen via an endotracheal tube with an appropriate monitoring. During the maintenance of anesthesia, the blood pressure of the patient started to drop and the oxygen saturation also began to decrease. Consequently, the proceding operation was discontinued and also inhalation anesthesia was ceased. As the patient was recovered from anesthesia, her systemic conditions were alleviated. After the complete recovery of the patient, she visited the cardiologist, and the cardiologic test revealed her severe right ventricular dilatation. In the anesthesia of patients with congenital heart disease, information on their systemic conditions needs to be undated from the medical consultation, which assures the safety of treatment.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.951-956
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• 2011

관상동맥 조영술은 관상동맥 협착을 검사하거나 치료를 하는데 널리 사용되고 있다. 특히, 카테터를 혈관에 삽입 시, 시술자는 혈관에 손상을 주지 말아야 하는 어려움을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 최근 여러 연구자들이 혈관 영상의 에지 추출 기반 방법과 최적의 쓰레쉬홀드 기법 등에 관하여 많은 연구를 진행하고 있다. 그러나 이러한 방법들은 영상의 선명도와 화질에 따라서 그 성능의 차이가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 다중 샘플링과 보간법, 쓰레쉬홀드, 오검출 제거 등으로 구성되어 있다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능을 평가하기 위해 다양한 혈관 조영 영상을 사용하였으며, 그 결과, 제안된 기법이 카테터의 삽입 경로를 추출하는데 효과적이었다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2005

Pediatricians often encounter some electrocardiographic abnormalities in infants and children. However, treatment or referral to pediatric cardiologist is not indicated for all arrhythmias. Many of them are benign in nature. Benign arrhythmias can be defined as the arrhythmias that no serious problem currently exists and no treatment is needed. The prognosis of benign arrhythmias is so good that the condition will never be associated with future health problem. However, some of them are benign now, but have potential for variable degrees of change to a nonbenign condition and some form of follow-up is required. For the appropriate management of electrocardiographic abnormalities, not infrequently seen in infants and children, correct diagnosis of abnormal electrocardiogram and understanding of characteristics of arrhythmias are required.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.351-360
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• 1989

This paper describes the design of portable arrhythmia monitor and associated algorithm for automated diagnosis based-on microcomputer in the ambulatory ECG recording, analysis, and transmitting to a hospital host computer immediately through the telephone system. The device differs from Molter recorder in that it does not store normal ECG signals but captures and alarms the ECG during suspected abnormal periods and selected temporal epochs to a central hospital site. This porta file arrhythmia monitor makes use of a general purpose computer and software will be changed to meet the custom requirements of individual physicians and patients. At present it is very obvious that each cardiologist has his own method of analyzing ECG recordings and utilizes past experience more than the firm quantitative analysis of data.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation method of left and right heart in computed tomography angiography (CTA) using separating energy function. First, we smooth the images by applying anisotropic diffusion filter to remove noise. Then, the volume of interest (VOI) is detected by using k-means clustering. Finally, we extract the left and right heart with separating energy function which we proposed to split the heart. We tested our method in ten CT images and they were obtained from a different patient. For the evaluation of the computational performance of the proposed method, we measured the total processing time. The average of total processing time, from first step to third step, was $14.39{\pm}1.17s$. We expect for our method to be used in cardiac diagnosis for cardiologist.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.222-228
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• 2009

Risk stratification and assessment of prognosis in patients with known or suspected CAD is of crucial important for the practice of contemporary medicine. Noninvasive testing such as myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, coronary artery calcium scoring or CT coronary angiography is increasingly being used to determine the need for aggressive medical therapy and to select patients for catheterization. The integrated anatomic and functional information may provide more additional information for the cardiologist or other clinician by the improved risk stratification and diagnostic accuracy of integrated techniques. The development of SPECT/CT or PET/CT hybrid systems is therefore of important value for the nuclear cardiology.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 합동 추계학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.15-18
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• 2002

This paper presents an ECG (electrocardiogram) telemetry system, in which patients can be monitored in nearly any environment by mobile communication. The ECG is transmitted to a monitor center via a built-in CDMA modem and forwarded to a cardiologist for diagnosis. Also this paper designed and implemented the receiving server which receives the ECG from the ECG aquisition module of patients by Internet. The server puts the ECG into a database. This telemetry system significantly increases the patient's safety and comfort.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.133-137
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 128채널 3차원 심장전기도 시스템의 영상화를 PC 기P반에서 구현하였다. 데이터를 받는 시간을 제외하더라도 실제적으로 구간을 설정하고 분석하는 시간은 1분도 걸리지 않아 짧은 시간 내에 분석해야 하는 심장 수술시 매우 유용함을 알 수 있었다. 특히 PC 기반으로 구현되었기 때문에 이동은 물론 데이터 보관이 용이하다. 또한 수술후에도 언제든지 데이터를 불러내어 분석 할 수 있으며 원하는 결과를 쉽게 확인할 수 있다.