• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.347-354
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• 2014

Korea Central Cancer Registry reported in 2011 that the prevalence rate of thyroid cancer was about 19.6% (the highest) in both men and women. The ratio of thyroid cancer, among cancers that women suffer from, was about 31.1%, the highest among female cancers and about five times more than men. Regarding the incidence of thyroid cancer by age group, the crude rate was highest in women and men aged 15~34. From these figures it can be inferred that there is a greater relationship between thyroid cancer and hormones compared with other cancers. Therefore, young women aged 20~25, even if they are in full health, should undergo a medical examination. This study is aimed at examining changes in thyroid gland detected through self evaluation tests and the analysis of ultrasound screening images in persons aged 20~25. According to the study, 213 persons (about 46.6%) out of 457 people who took part in the study had abnormal echo patterns. With regard to women's abnormal patterns, about 73.4% of them were found to have calcified cystic, 11.8% diffuse-type low-echo and 7.3% cystic echo. With regard to male participants, about 61.1% were found to have calcified cystic, followed by 19.4% with the size of the isthmus increased and 13.9% with diffuse-type low-echo. According to the outcomes of an analysis regarding self-testing for hyperthyroidism, the average points of participants who were found to have abnormal echo patterns in ultrasound tests were 6.85 and the figure was 5.88 in persons with normal patterns. The figure was about 15% higher in abnormal respondents.

• 재활복지
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.89-111
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• 2017

The following study aims for analyzing the effects of influencing factors of self-esteem for persons with disabilities in the generation of echo-boomers. 278 disabled people born form 1992 to 1979 among the participants in the $7^{th}$ Panel Survey on persons with disabilities have been selected for ensuring reliability of analyzing this survey. As for the method of research, descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation coefficient analysis, And multiple regression analysis were used for verifying influencing factors of their self-esteem. As the result of the examination which analyzed factors effecting self-esteem of persons with disabilities, self-esteem tends to be increased when academic levels and interpersonal relation skills are increased in the human major human capitals factors. In terms of the factors of Socio-Econimic, self-esteem is likely to be increased when they do not have any experiences of discrimination in their daily lives and when they subjectively feel their socio-economic positions are higher enough. In accordance to the results of this study, strategies of policy and practice in social welfare for the persons with disabilities in the generation of echo-boomers are suggested to include all that factors between human capitals factors and socio-economic factors to increases their self-esteem.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.90-96
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• 2008

This paper presents an algorithm of a single chip acoustic speech enhancement for telematics device. The algorithm consists of two stages, i.e. noise reduction and echo cancellation. An adaptive filter based on cross spectral estimation is used to cancel echo. The external background noise is eliminated and the clear speech is estimated by using MMSE log-spectral magnitude estimation. To be suitable for use in consumer electronics, we also design a low cost, high speed and flexible hardware architecture. The performance of the proposed speech enhancement algorithms were measured both by the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) and recognition accuracy of an automatic speech recognition(ASR) and yields better results compared with the conventional methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.16-25
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• 2015

Visual census and hydro-acoustic survey was carried out at Ulju small scale marine ranching area (MRA) to estimate demersal fish aggregations on September and November 2013. In this hydro-acoustic survey, the authors combined an image sonar with a scientific echo sounder to monitor an underwater situation and compare two acoustic data. Consequently, visual census survey was useful to estimate fish species composition for hydro-acoustic survey, because it is easy to identify aggregated fish species and overcome limits on a fishing depth and ability of an conventional fishing gear like a bottom gill-net or a fish trap at marine ranching area. Mean fish density was estimated as $0.757g/m^2$ on September and $0.219g/m^2$ on November and Fish abundance was finally calculated as 1.51ton (coefficient of variation, CV=13.1%) on September and 0.44ton (CV=47.7%) on November, respectively. Hydro-acoustic survey combined with the image sonar was useful to monitor fish aggregations and estimate fish stocks around artificial reefs at shallow coastal MRA. We were able to easily identify the underwater structures like an artificial reef and a fishing rope as well as fish aggregations from image sonar data. Therefore, the method was effective to separate unwanted echo signals in acoustic data of scientific echo sounder.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.7-19
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• 2000

Background :To assess the accuracy of Electron-Beam Tomography(EBT) in following evaluation of the pulmonary vascular system after a shunt operation in the cyanotic con-genital heart disease with pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia. Material and Method : Sixteen patients(M:F=11:5) who received Blalock-Taussig(n=8) bidirectional cavo-pulmonary shunt(n=10) and unifocalization (n=2) were ncluded in the study. We evaluated the patency of the shunt the morphology of intrapericardial and hilar pulmonary arteries(PA) peripheral pulmonary vascularity by background lung attenuation and the abundance of arterial & venous collateral. Angiography(n=12) and echocardiography(n=20) were used as the gold standard for the comparison of EBT results. Result: EBT was consistent with angiogram/ echo in 100% of the evaluation for the patency of the shunt and in 12(by angiogram 100%) and 19(by echo 95%) for the detection the hypoplasia stenosis or interruption of central PA In measuring of PA EBT and angiogram corrlated(r=0.91) better than EBT-echo(r=0.88) or echo-angiogram(r=0.72) Abundant systemic arterial collateral were noted in 4 and venous collateral in 3 cases. In evaluating the peripheral pulmonary vascularity the homogenous and normal-ranged lung attenuation(m=6) decreased but homo-genous attenuation(n=1) segment-by-sgment heterogeneous attenuation(n=3) homogenous but asymmetrical attenuation(n=3) segment-by-segment heterogeneous attenuation(n=3) homogenous but asymmetrical attenuation(n=3) and venous congestion(n=2) were observed nd 12 of them were compatible with the blood flow pattern revealed by cardiac catheterization. Conclusion: EBT was accurate in the integrated evaluation of the pulmonary vascular system after the shunt including the patency of the shunt operaion the morphology and dimension of the central and hilar PAs and the loco-regional pulmonary flow in the lung parenchyma. It suggests the useful information about the need of secondary shunt operation the proper timing time for total repair and the need of interventional procedure prior to total repair.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.141-155
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• 2021

Purpose: To develop a 3D magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) method for application in high resolution knee cartilage PD, T₁, T₂ mapping. Materials and Methods: A novel 3D acquisition trajectory with golden-angle rotating radial in k_xy direction and interleaved echo planar imaging (EPI) acquisition in the k_z direction was implemented in the MRF framework. A centric order was applied to the interleaved EPI acquisition to reduce Nyquist ghosting artifact due to field inhomogeneity. For the reconstruction, singular value decomposition (SVD) compression method was used to accelerate reconstruction time and conjugate gradient sensitivity-encoding (CG-SENSE) was performed to overcome low SNR of the high resolution data. Phantom experiments were performed to verify the proposed method. In vivo experiments were performed on 6 healthy volunteers and 2 early osteoarthritis (OA) patients. Results: In the phantom experiments, the T₁ and T₂ values of the proposed method were in good agreement with the spin-echo references. The results from the in vivo scans showed high quality proton density (PD), T₁, T₂ map with EPI echo train length (N_ETL = 4), acceleration factor in through plane (R_z = 5), and number of radial spokes (N_spk = 4). In patients, high T₂ values (50-60 ms) were seen in all transverse, sagittal, and coronal views and the damaged cartilage regions were in agreement with the hyper-intensity regions shown on conventional turbo spin-echo (TSE) images. Conclusion: The proposed 3D MRF method can acquire high resolution (0.5 mm³) quantitative maps in practical scan time (~ 7 min and 10 sec) with full coverage of the knee (FOV: 160 × 160 × 120 mm³).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 1991

This paper describes the fish-density dependence of the mean backscattering strength with aggregations of encaged, free-swimming fish of known density in relation to the experimental verification of echo-integration technique for estimating the density of fish shoals. In this experiment, various numbers of gold crussian, Carassius burgeri burgeri, with a mean length of 18.5cm and a mean weight of 205.9g, were introduced into a net cage of approximately 0.76m super(3). During the backscattering measurements. the cage was suspended on the sound axis of the 50kHz transducer having a beam width of 33 degrees at -3dB downpoints. The volume backscattering strengths from fish aggregations were measured as a function of fish density. Data acquisition, processing and analysis were performed by means of the microcomputer-based sonar-echo processor including a FFT analyzer. The calibration of echo-sounder system was carried out at field with a steel ball bearing of 38mm in diameter having the target strength of -40.8dB. The dorsal-aspect target strengths on anesthetized specimens of gold crussian used in the cage experiment were measured and compared with the target strength predicted by the fish density-echo energy relationship for aggregations of free-swimming gold crussian in the cage. The results obtained can be summarized as follows: 1. The target strengths in the dorsal aspect on anesthetized specimens of gold crussian, with the mean length of 19.1cm and the mean weight of 210.5g, varied from -40.9dB to -44.8dB with a mean of -42.6dB. This mean target strength did not differ significantly from that predicted by the regression of echo energy on fish density of free-swimming gold crussian in the cage. It suggests that the target-strength measurements on anesthetized fish was valid and can be representative for live, free-swimming fish. 2. The relationship between mean backscattering strength(, dB) and distribution density of gold $crussian(\rho, $ fish/m super(3)) was expressed by the following equation; =-41.9+11 $Log(\rho)$ with a correlation coefficient of 0.97. This result support the existence of a linear relationship between fish density and echo energy, but suggest that this line has steeper slope than the regression by the theory of estimating the density of fish schools.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.576-579
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• 2017

Due to the existence of flash lobe caused by the radome structure, a radar return in general contains clutter component added to target echo. Unlike jammer, clutter is apt to simultaneously coexist with target echo, which hinders a monopulse radar from estimating the angle difference between target echo direction and radar steering direction. In this paper, we propose a clutter estimation algorithm applicable to generalized sidelobe canceller(GSC) based monopulse radar. We show that clutter estimation can be achieved via iterative process of the orthogonal projections. Through simulations, the proposed GSC-based system combined with the clutter estimation can outperform the conventional monopulse system in terms of target angle estimation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.977-984
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• 2000

Atmospheric boundary layer over equatorial maritime continent was analyzed with Doppler radar. An L-band (1357.5 MHz) boundary layer radar (BLR) has been in continuous successful operation in Selpong, Indonesia(6.45, 106.7E), since November 1992. The performance of the BLR with respect to the observation height range and the wind measurement reliability has been examined on the basis of simultaneous meteorological observations. In the dry season (10-12 October 1993), we have found two types of strong echo structures appearing systematically in the equatorial planetary boundary layer with diurnal variations on clear days. The first type is the striking appearance of a strong echo layer ascending from below 300 m (in the morning) to above 3-5 km (in the afternoon), which is identified with a diurnal variation of the top of the mixing planetary boundary layer. As expected, it is higher in the Indonesian equatorial region than in midlatitudes. Another type is a layered echo appearing at 2-3 km heights from nighttime to morning, which seem to be coincident with humidity gaps. In the rainy season (20-21 February 1994), the height of the atmospheric mining was lower than that in the dry season.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.170-177
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• 1999

In order to research the relationship between distribution of fish and the ocean environment in Southern Sea of Korea, echo survey and oceanographic observation were carried out from July 27 to 31 in 1998. The DSL(Depth Scattering Layer) and high density of fishes were appeared in northeastern Cheju Island and offshore of Karnak bay by color echo sounder. The relative Sa(area backscattering coefficient) in offshore of Karnak bay was 5,500 at 28KHz, 12,500 at 200KHz and Northeastern Cheju Island was 6,000 at 28KHz, 20,000 at 200KHz. During the acoustic survey period, Ocean environment of high density of fishes area were as the follows. The surface Northeastern Cheju Island were ranged 20~$26.5^{\circ}C,\;31.5~32.5\perthousand$ and that bottom were ranged 16~$20^{\circ}C,\;35.4~34\perthousand$. The shallow water area in offshore of Karnak bay were ranged 24~$26.5^{\circ}C,\;30.0~31.5\perthousand$