• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.1614-1615
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• 2011

It is difficult to differentially diagnose between lung cancer and benign inflammatory lung lesion due to high false positive rate on F-18 FDG-PET. We investigated whether application of artificial neural network to this diagnosis may be helpful. We reviewed the medical records and F-18 FDG PET images of 12 patients, selecting clinical and PET variables such as SUV. For selected variables and confirm, multilayer neural perceptron was applied in crossvalidation method and compared to visual interpretation. Neural network correctly classified the lung lesions in 83%, and reduced greately the false positive rate. However, false negative rate was not influenced. Application of neural network to the differential diagnosis between lung cancer and benigh inflammatory lesion may be helpful. Further studies with more patients are warranted.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.252-253
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• 2023

Container terminal automation might offer many potential benefits, such as increased productivity, reduced cost, and improved safety. Autonomous trucks can lead to more efficient container transport. A robust lane detection method is proposed using score-based generative modeling through stochastic differential equations for image-to-image translation. Image processing techniques are combined with Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) to ensure lane positioning robustness. The proposed method is validated by a dataset collected from the port terminals under different environmental conditions and tested the robustness of the lane detection method with stochastic noise.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.29-34
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• 2008

This paper describes the fabrication and characterization of a differential pressure type integrated mass-flow controller made of stainless steel for reactive and corrosive gases. The fabricated mass-flow controller is composed of a normally closed valve and differential pressure sensor. A stacked solenoid actuator mounted on a base-block is utilized for precise and rapid control of gas flow. The differential pressure flow sensor consisting of four diaphragms can detect a flow rate by deflection of diaphragm. By a feedback control from the flow sensor to the valve actuator, it is possible to keep the flow rate constant. This device shows a fast response less than 0.3 sec. Also, this device shows accuracy less than 0.1% of full scale. It is confirmed that this device is not attacked by toxic gas, so the integrated mass-flow controller can be applied to advanced semiconductor processes which need fine mass-flow control corrosive gases with fast response.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.291-296
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• 2015

This paper describes the design of a high-speed comparator for high-speed automatic test equipment (ATE). The normal comparator block, which compares the detected signal from the device under test (DUT) to the reference signal from an internal digital-to-analog converter (DAC), is composed of a rail-to-rail first pre-amplifier, a hysteresis amplifier, and a third pre-amplifier and latch for high-speed operation. The proposed continuous comparator handles high-frequency signals up to 800MHz and a wide range of input signals (0~5V). Also, to compare the differences of both common signals and differential signals between two DUTs, the proposed differential mode comparator exploits one differential difference amplifier (DDA) as a pre-amplifier in the comparator, while a conventional differential comparator uses three op-amps as a pre-amplifier. The chip was implemented with $0.18{\mu}m$ Bipolar CMOS DEMOS (BCDMOS) technology, can compare signal differences of 5mV, and operates in a frequency range up to 800MHz. The chip area is $0.514mm^2$.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.685-695
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• 1997

In this paper, a new CMOS continuous-time fully-differential current-mode integrator is proposed as a basic building block of the low-voltage high frequency current-mode active filter. The proposed integrator is composed of the CMOS complementary circuit which can extend transconductance of an integrator. Therefore, the unity gain frequency which is determined by a small-signal transconductance and a MOSFET gate capacitance can be expanded by the complementary transconductance of the proposed integrator. And also the magnitude of pole and zero are increased. The unity gain frequency of the proposed integrator is increased about two times larger than that of the conventional continuous-time fully-differential integrator with NMOS-gm. These results are verified by the small signal analysis and the SPICE simulation. As an application circuit of the proposed fully-differential current-mode integrator, the three-pole Chebyshev lowpass filter is designed using 0.8.$\mu$m CMOS processing parameters. SPICE simulation predicts a 3-dB bandwidth of 148MHz and power dissipation of 4.3mW/pole for the three-pole filter with 3-V power supply.

• Laser Solutions
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

This study is about laser welded joints in order to replace the traditional screw connection of a differential gear and its case in the differential gear assembly. Screws are usually used to join these parts. But the screws take up weight and space. So we needed to improve the joining method. In the welding of a differential gear and its case, the quality is much harder to control, because the high carbon contents of the two components results in cold cracks. But a new method that adds wire allows these materials to be joined. Additionally, more distortions generally occurs in the welded joints than in screws. We tried to prove that laser welding is an available method for joining these parts through the measurement and various tests.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.33-44
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• 2009

This study investigates differential impacts of the positive and negative content and the interaction with pacing, as a structural feature, on information processing while watching televised video clips with moderately intensive emotional tone. College participants watched six positive messages and six negative video clips lasting approximately 60 seconds. Heart rate was used to index attention and skin conductance was used to measure arousal. After all of the stimuli were shown, the participants performed the free recall questionnaire. The result demonstrates, first, positivity superiority on attention in which participants' heart rates were slower during positive content compared to during negative content. Secondly, negativity superiority was shown on free recall memory as participants remembered positive content better than did negative content. The result also manifests the interaction of emotional valence and pacing as the effects of pacing were less for the negatively emotional content compared to those for the positively emotional content. It is suggested that future studies should examine further about the differential and independent functions of positive and negative contents on information processing and the potential interaction with formal features.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.1037-1047
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• 2017

The Differential Power Processing (DPP) converter is a promising multi-module photovoltaic inverter architecture recently proposed for photovoltaic systems. In this paper, a DPP converter architecture, in which each PV-panel has its own DPP converter in shunt, performs distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) control. It maintains a high energy conversion efficiency, even under partial shading conditions. The system architecture only deals with the power differences among the PV panels, which reduces the power capacity of the converters. Therefore, the DPP systems can easily overcome the conventional disadvantages of PCS such as centralized, string, and module integrated converter (MIC) topologies. Among the various types of the DPP systems, the feed-forward method has been selected for both its voltage balancing and power transfer to a modified H-bridge inverter that needs charge balancing of the input capacitors. The modified H-bridge multi-level inverter had some advantages such as a low part count and cost competitiveness when compared to conventional multi-level inverters. Therefore, it is frequently used in photovoltaic (PV) power conditioning system (PCS). However, its simplified switching network draws input current asymmetrically. Therefore, input capacitors in series suffer from a problem due to a charge imbalance. This paper validates the operating principle and feasibility of the proposed topology through the simulation and experimental results. They show that the input-capacitor voltages maintain the voltage balance with the PV MPPT control operating with a 140-W hardware prototype.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1611-1633
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• 2022

At EUROCRYPT 2019, a new block cipher algorithm called BISON was proposed by Canteaut et al. which uses a novel structure named as Whitened Swap-Or-Not (WSN). Unlike the traditional wide trail strategy, the differential and linear properties of this algorithm can be easily determined. However, the encryption speed of the BISON algorithm is quite low due to a large number of iterative rounds needed to ensure certain security margins. Commonly, denoting by n is the data block length, this design requires 3n encryption rounds. Moreover, the block size n of BISON is always odd, which is not convenient for operations performed on a byte level. In order to overcome these issues, we propose a new block cipher, named DBISON, which more efficiently employs the ideas of double layers typical to the BISON-like construction. More precisely, DBISON divides the input into two parts of size n/2 bits and performs the round computations in parallel, which leads to an increased encryption speed. In particular, the data block length n of DBISON can be even, which gives certain additional implementation benefits over BISON. Furthermore, the resistance of DBISON against differential and linear attacks is also investigated. It is shown the maximal differential probability (MDP) is 1/2^n-1 for n encryption rounds and that the maximal linear probability (MLP) is strictly less than 1/2^n-1 when (n/2+3) iterative encryption rounds are used. These estimates are very close to the ideal values when n is close to 256.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.344-351
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• 1997

The experiment was conducted to examine the varietal variation in gelatinization of rice flour and adaptability to rice bread processing, and the interrelation among the relevant properties. IR 44 showed the lowest temperature of gelatinization onset(T$_{o}$ ) and the highest gelatinization enthalphy(ㅿH) measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The following lower T$_{o}$ was found with the order of Suweon 230＜Pusa-33-30＜T(N) 1, Daeribbyeo 1 and the next higher ㅿ.H was followed by the order of Pusa-33-30＞Suweon 230. IRAT 177 revealed the highest temperature of gelatinization onset and conclusion(T$_{c}$) and the following higher T$_{c}$ was found with the order of Pusa-33-30＞AC 27＞Nonganbyeo. The varietal range of T$_{o}$ and T$_{c}$ was 50.0~72.5$^{\circ}C$ and 70.2~87.4$^{\circ}C$, respectively. The rice materials tested can be classified by scatter diagram on the plane of upper two principal components contracted from DSC thermogram and various characteristics relevant to processing and sensory preference of rice bread by principal component analysis. AC27, Suweonjo and IR 44 among high-amylose rices showed better suitability to rice bread processing. The temperatures of gelatinization peak and conclusion of rice flour checked by DSC were significantly negatively associated with springiness of rice bread. The most properties relevant to processing and sensory preference of rice bread such as hardness, moistness, springiness, cohesiveness, specific loaf volume and distribution or size of air cell revealed the close correlation between each other.other.