• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.1509-1518
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• 2017

Although several methods have been used to assess the pain levels, few practical methods for classifying presence or absence of the pain using pattern classifiers have been suggested. The aim of this study is to design an pattern classifier that classifies the presence or absence of the pain using electrocardiogram (ECG). We measured the ECG signal from 10 subjects with the painless state and the pain state(Induced by mechanical stimulation). The 10 features of heart rate variability (HRV) were extracted from ECG - MeanRRI, SDNN, rMSSD, NN50, pNN50 in the time domain; VLF, LF, HF, Total Power, LF/HF in the frequency domain; and we used the features as input vector of the pattern classifier's artificial neural network (ANN) / support vector machine (SVM) for classifying the presence or absence of the pain. The study results showed that the classifiers using ANN / SVM could classify the presence or absence of the pain with accuracies of 81.58% / 81.84%. The proposed classifiers can be applied to the objective assessment of pain level.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.10
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• pp.1448-1454
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• 2014

In this study, a new type of electrode device is implemented to measure the capacitance energy and interpret it as the ECG (Electrocardiogram) data. The main idea of this new electrode system is to estimate the capacitance on the skin by assembling a capacitive-coupled circuits and translate into the ECG signal. To measure the coupling energy and estimate the aquired data in terms of heart activity, the capacitive-coupled electrode is garmented with fabrics in the form of a chest band or a vest jacket. To compare the ECG data from the capacitive-coupled electrode with the conventional electrode(Ag-AgCl) system, the corelation coefficient between two signals is computed as 0.9517. Thus, we can conclude the fact that capacitive-coupled electrode system can measure a person's heart activity without any contact to his or her skin and can the interpreted as the ECG data.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.124-130
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• 2022

In this paper, we proposed a portable electronic cardiogram and stethoscope (ECGS) that can simultaneously perform the electrocardiogram (ECG) and auscultation tests to increase the reliability of diagnosis of heart disease. To measure the ECG and heart sound (HS) at the same time, three ECG electrodes and a microphone sensor were combined into a triangular shape with a width of 90 mm and a height of 97 mm that can be held in one hand. In order to prevent skin problems when they contact the patient's skin, a capacitive coupled electrode was selected as the ECG electrode and a silicone material was used in a chest piece with the microphone sensor. For the signals measured from the electrodes and the chest piece, filters were respectively configured to pass only the signals of 0.01-100 Hz and 20-250 Hz, which are frequency bands for ECG and HS. The filtered ECG and HS analog signals were converted into digital signals and transmitted to a PC using wireless communication for monitoring them. The HS could be auscultated simultaneously using an earphone. The monitored ECG had an SNR of about 34 dB and a P-QRS-T waveform is clearly visible. In addition, the HS had an SNR of about 28 dB and both S₁ and S₂ are clearly visible. It is expected that it can aid doctors' inexperience in analyzing the ECG and HS.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.66 no.4
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• pp.258-262
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• 2017

The PCA(Principal Component Analysis) algorithm is widely used as a technique of expressing the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix that best represents the characteristics of the data and reducing the high dimensional vector to a low dimensional vector. In this paper, we have developed a personal authentication method based on ECG using principal component analysis. The proposed method showed excellent recognition performance of 98.2 [%] when it was experimented using electrocardiogram data obtained at weekly intervals. Therefore, it can be seen that it is useful for personal authentication by reducing the dimension without changing the information on the variability and the correlation set variable existing in the electrocardiogram data by using the principal component analysis technique.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.42-47
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• 2016

This study was conducted to investigate visual threshold of nigro (Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum) on white LED light. The visual threshold was obtained by analyzing electrocardiogram (ECG) of the nigro. 5 individuals (body weight: 15.62~45.49 g; TL: 8.9~12.4 cm) were trained for lights by an electric stimulus. And then the heart rate (beats/10s) before and after switching on the light were compared. Light intensity range was from 0.00 to 226.4 lux. Average heart rate was 10.36 beats/10s in the normal condition. When the fish perceived the light, the heart rate was decreased. Visual threshold of the fish was 2.59 lux.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.989-993
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 생체신호 중 비침습적으로 측정이 가능하고 많은 건강정보를 포함하고 있는 ECG(electrocardiogram)신호를 일상생활 중 보다 편리하게 모니터링 할 수 있는 시스템을 구현하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 벨트형 ECG전극 시스템을 개발하였으며, 배터리로 구동 가능한 초소형 저전력 ECG측정시스템을 구현하였다. 또한 측정된 ECG신호의 무선전송을 위하여 Zigbee호환 무선센서노드를 이용하여 초저전력 무선데이터 통신부를 구성하였고 PC상에서 ECG신호를 모니터링하기 위한 프로그램을 구현하였다. 그리고 ECG측정 시 움직임에 따라 발생하는 동잡음의 제거를 위하여 이동평균필터(moving average filter)를 이용하여 기저선 변화를 추출하였고 이를 적응필터의 참조신호로 사용하여 동잡음을 제거하였다. 실험 결과 본 연구에 의해 구현된 ECG전극 및 계측시스템을 통해 활동상태 에서도 ECG계측 가능성을 확인하였으며, 제안한 적응신호처리기법을 통해 활동 중 ECG측정에서 동잡음의 최소화가 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.589-592
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• 1998

One of the main techniques for diagnosing heart disease is by examining the electrocardiogram(ECG). The earlier noise reduction techniques can not effectively cancellation complex noise from the noisy ECG such powrline interference, baseline drift, muscle artifact. In this paper, we performed the extrude noise from and recovering the ECG signal using wavelets transform that has recently been applying to various fields.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.530-532
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• 2007

This paper presents a simple method to implement a complete on-line portable wireless holter including an electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, processing, and communication protocol. The proposed algorithm significantly reduces the hardware resources of threshold estimation for ECG compression, using the standard deviation updated with each new input signal sample. The new method achieves superior performance in terms of hardware complexity, channel occupation and memory requirements, while keeping the ECG quality at a clinically acceptable level.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.7-11
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• 2021

The electrocardiogram(ECG) and heart rates are essential for diagnosing heart disease. However, conventional portable ECG devices are possible to only measure heart rates or have limitations in how and where they are measured. In this paper, a portable ECG system in which ECG waveforms and heart rates are displayed on smartphone screens is developed. A smartphone is used as display equipment instead of a computer screen for continuous monitoring. The developed ECG system filters and amplifies detected analog ECG signals. Next, it converts the amplified analog ECG signals into digital signals, then transmits to the smartphone via Bluetooth communication. This ECG system can display and store biomedical signals on a smartphone through the application. As a result, the waveform and heart rates of the developed portable ECG system has been confirmed to be similar to those of existing medical devices.

• Journal of the Korea society of information convergence
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.45-49
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• 2013

Electrocardiogram(ECG) signal noise as well as conducting other bio-signal measurement were generated. It was intened to enhance the accuracy of cadiac disease diagnosis with removing signal white-noise. Sampling signal was made with generating white-noise. The noise were removed using wavelet transforms and thresholding. Removed noise were compared numerical using SNR(signal to noise ratio). The results compared SNR showed that SURE method was 5.931, 4.9301 in 3, 5dB noise, uninversal was 3.6590, 1.9698 in 7, 9dB noise. De-noising by Thresholding removed noise effectively. ECG signal is expected to improve the accuracy of cadiac desease dianosis.