• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.602-604
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• 2004

A portable electronic tongue(E-Tongue) system using an array of ion-selective electrode(ISE) and personal digital assistants(PDA) for recognizing and analyzing food and drink have been designed. By the employment of PDA, the complex algorithm such as fuzzy c-means algorithm(FCMA) could be used in E-Tongue, FCMA could iteratively solve the cluster centers of pre-determined standard patterns. And the membership between the standard patterns and unknown pattern could be analyzed easily by the present E-Tongue combined with PDA.

• 센서학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.446-453
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• 2004

A portable electronic tongue (E-Tongue) system using an array of ion-selective electrode (ISE) and personal digital assistants (PDA) for recognizing and analyzing food and drink have been designed. By the employment of PDA, the complex algorithm such as fuzzy c-means algorithm (FCMA) could be used in E-Tongue, PUMA could iteratively solve the cluster centers of pre-determined standard patterns. And the membership between the standard patterns and unknown pattern could be analyzed easily by the present E-Tongue combined with PDA.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.109-116
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• 2005

In this paper, we investigate the visual and quantitative analysis at the same time with an electronic tongue(e-tongue) system using an array of ISE(ion-selective electrode). We apply the FCM(fuzzy c-means) algorithm combined with PCA(principal component analysis), which can be reduced multi-dimensional data to third-dimensional data, to classify data patterns detected by E-Tongue system. The proposed technique can be designed to solve the cluster centers and membership grade of patterns combined with the output results obtained by PCA method. According to the proposed technique, the membership grade of unknown pattern, which does not shown previously can be determined and analyzed visually. Conclusionally, the relationship between the standard patterns and unknown pattern can be easily analyzed. Throughout the experimental trials, the proposed technique has been confirmed using developed E-Tongue system.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.921-926
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• 2022

Astree사의 E-Tongue을 이용한 상대적 단맛 평가를 위하여 검토한 7개의 센서 중 PKS 및 NMS 센서가 1차로 선정되었다. PKS 및 NMS 센서를 이용해 설탕을 비롯한, 과당, 포도당 및 자일리톨, 5%, 10% 및 15% 용액을 분석한 결과, 자일리톨 및 과당의 농도 증가에 따른 PKS 센서 감응도의 변화가 미미하여, 최종적으로 NMS 센서를 단맛 측정 센서로 선정하였다. 이들 감미료의 농도 중 5% 용액을 모든 센서를 활용한 PCA(주성분 분석) 통계 방법으로 처리한 결과에서는 DI (식별지수)값이 -0.1로 감미료 상호 간 구분이 힘들었으나, NMS 센서만을 이용한 상대적 센서 감응도는 농도에 관계없이 일정한 수치를 나타내었다. 과당 및 자일리톨의 상대적 센서 감응도는 각각 1.08 및 1.00으로 사람의 미각으로 측정한 문헌상 관능검사의 상대적 감미도 범위에 포함되었으나, 포도당의 경우는 0.99로 문헌상 상대감미도 0.5~0.75보다 높게 나타났다. 5%~15% 농도 범위에서 설탕 대비 3종 감미료에 대한 NMS 단일센서를 이용한 E-Tongue의 우수한 정밀성 (%RSD, 1.53~3.64%)을 고려할 때 향후 가당 음료 등에 대한 신제품 개발 및 품질관리 등에 관능검사를 대체할 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 한국연초학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.134-140
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was the discrimination of different tobacco types by the E-Nose/tongue and the analysis of what human sensory attributes are correlated with e-instrument's sensors. Samples were made from five groups of Korean domestic tobacco leaves, aged burley and not aged, aged flue-cured and not aged and blending types of the four. Instrumental tests were conducted to discriminate characteristics among different tobacco samples by the E-Nose and the E-Tongue. Sensory attributes of tobacco tastes were impact, irritation, bitterness, hay-like, tobacco taste, smoke volume, smoke pungent and mouth cleanness. STATISTICA software was used to analyze correlation between the human sensory data and the raw data of e-instruments. Discrimination analysis can be achieved using principal components analysis (PCA) and discriminant factorial analysis(DFA). As a result, impact, bitterness, irritation, smoke volume and smoke pungent of human sensory attributes were correlated with data from the several clustered E-Nose sensors(p < 0.10). And bitterness, irritation, and smoke pungent of human sensory attributes were correlated with data from the E-Tongue sensors(p < 0.10). PCA plot by the E-Nose shows that aged tobacco and not aged were discriminated and DFA plot shows that three groups(aged burley, not aged burley and flue-cured) were discriminated. PCA plot by the E- Tongue shows that flue-cured tobacco was separated from burley. Our results indicated that the e-instruments are sensitive enough to distinguish among tobacco types and their several sensors are reacted to the human sensory attributes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.945-961
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• 2019

Tongue diagnosis is one of the most important diagnostic methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Tongue image segmentation aims to extract the image object (i.e., tongue body), which plays a key role in the process of manufacturing an automated tongue diagnosis system. It is still challenging, because there exists the personal diversity in tongue appearances such as size, shape, and color. This paper proposes an innovative segmentation method that uses image thresholding, gray projection and active contour model (ACM). Specifically, an initial object region is first extracted by performing image thresholding in HSI (i.e., Hue Saturation Intensity) color space, and subsequent morphological operations. Then, a gray projection technique is used to determine the upper bound of the tongue body root for refining the initial object region. Finally, the contour of the refined object region is smoothed by ACM. Experimental results on a dataset composed of 100 color tongue images showed that the proposed method obtained more accurate segmentation results than other available state-of-the-art methods.

• 센서학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.444-454
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• 2005

The IEEE 1451.4 standards defines an architectural model for interfacing smart transducers for sensors & actuators. This standard allows analogue transducers to communicate their identification and calibration data in a digital format. A digital format is called the TEDS (transducer electronic data sheet). However, the standard template TEDS of IEEE 1451.4 do not supports sensors to use in electronic tongue system, such as arrayed-potentiometric and voltametric sensors. In this paper, a solution to standardize sensors for E-Tongue (electronic tongue) and electronic tongue systems is presented.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.133-137
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• 2005

In this paper, we investigate visual and quantitative analysis of different tastes in the liquids using multi-array chemical sensor (MACS) based on the ion-selective electrodes (ISEs), which is so called the electronic tongue (E-Tongue) system. We apply the Fuzzy C-means (FCM) algorithm combined with Principal Component Analysis (PCA), which can be used to reduce multi-dimensional data to two- or three-dimensional data, to classify visually data patterns detected by E-Tongue system. The proposed technique can be determined the cluster centers and membership grade of patterns through the unsupervised way. The membership grade of an unknown pattern, which does not shown previously, can be visually and analytically determined. Throughout the experimental trails, the E-tongue system combined with the proposed algorithms is demonstrated robust performance for visual and quantitative analysis for different tastes in the liquids.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.149-158
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• 2005

본 논문은 이온 선택성 전극을 모듈화한 MACS를 사용하여 시스템의 크기를 축소할 수 있었고, PDA를 사용함으로써 측정된 데이터를 장소에 구애받지 않고 분석할 수 있는 휴대용 전자혀 시스템을 개발하였다. MACS는 ${NH_4}^+$, $Na^+$, $Cl^-$, ${NO_3}^-$, $K^+$, $Ca^{2+}$, $Na^+$, pH의 7종의 이온 선택성 전극을 이용하여 구성하였으며, 초기화 및 교정과정과 완충용액에 의한 안정화 과정을 거친 후 MACS로 시료에 대한 각각의 이온선택성 전극의 변화를 측정한다. 이렇게 각 전극으로부터 측정된 데이터를 이용하여 신경회로망 알고리즘으로 측정된 시료의 종류를 구분할 수 있다. 실험은 분류가 어렵다고 알려진 고급양주와 저급양주를 분류하는 것으로 진행되었으며, 성공적이며 우수한 실험 결과를 얻었다 이로부터 사용된 알고리즘이 휴대용 전자혀 시스템에 적절히 사용될 수 있음을 밝혔으며, 실제 휴대용 전자혀 시스템에 간단한 학습에 의해 적용될 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.264-271
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• 2018

The objective of this study was to investigate taste profiles and the correlation of Doenjang soup solution prepared with three different temperatures (5, 25, $45^{\circ}C$) and using an electronic nose (e-nose), electronic tongue (e-tongue), and descriptive analyses by trained panelists. A total of 17sensory attributes were generated from the descriptive analyses for the Doenjang soup solution. There were significant difference among the samples in the cooked soybean flavor, the cooked soybean odor, the soy sauce odor, the sweet odor, the sweet taste, and the sweet aftertaste attributes. The intensities of these sensory attributes tended to increase as the serving temperature of the Doenjang soup solution increased. There were seven volatile compounds detected by the electronic nose: ethanol, propanal, 2-methylpropanal, ethyl acetate, 3-methylbutanal, and beta-pinene. The intensities of the volatile compounds increased as the temperature of the Doenjang soup solution increased. On the other hand, the intensities of the basic tastes by the e-tongue decreased as the temperature of the Doenjang soup solution increased. In conclusion, the e-nose, e-tongue, and descriptive analysis results showed different correlations depending on the temperature of the Doenjang soup solutions.