• 센서학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.239-244
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• 2017

Noninvasive, cuffless, and continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring is essential to prevent and control hypertension. A well-known existing method for this measurement is pulse transit time (PTT), which has been investigated by many researchers as a promising approach. However, the fundamental principle of the PTT method is based on the time interval taken by a pulse wave to propagate between the proximal and distal arterial sites. Consequently, this method needs an independent system with two devices placed at two different sites, which is a problem. Even though some studies attempted to synchronize the system, it is bulky and inconvenient by contemporary standards. To find a more sensitive method to be used in a BP measurement device, this study used radial electrical bioimpedance (REB) as a potential indicator for BP determination. Only one impedance plethysmography channel at the wrist is performed for demonstrating a ubiquitous BP wearable device. The experiment was evaluated on eight healthy subjects with the ambulatory BP monitor on the upper arm as a reference. The results demonstrated the potential of the proposed method by the correlation of estimated systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) BP against the reference at $0.84{\pm}0.05$ and $0.83{\pm}0.05$, respectively. REB also tracked the DBP well with a root-mean-squared-error of $7.5{\pm}1.35mmHg$.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.749-755
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• 2023

A new approximation method was proposed for treating the non-resonant spatial self-shielding effects of double heterogeneous region such as the double heterogeneous effect of VHTR fuel compact in the thermal energy range and that of BP compact with BISO. The method was developed based on the effective homogenization method and a spherical unit cell model with explicit coated layers and a matrix layer. The self-shielding factor was derived from the relation between the collision probabilities for a double heterogeneous compact and the effective cross section for the homogenized compact. First, the collision probabilities and transmission probabilities for all layers of the spherical model were calculated using conventional collision probability solver. Then, the effective cross section for the homogenized sphere cell representing the homogenized compact was obtained from the transmission probability calculated using the probability density function of a chord length. The verification calculations revealed that the proposed method can predict the self-shielding factor with a maximum error of 2.3% and the double heterogeneous effect with a maximum error of 200 pcm in the typical VHTR problems with various packing fractions and BP compact sizes.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.88-95
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• 2011

스테레오 매칭은 두 영상의 차이를 이용하여 거리를 추정하는 연구 분야로 성능 개선과 함께 처리속도 향상을 위한 연구가 계속되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 계층적 Belief Propagation(BP) 알고리즘을 개선하여 기존의 BP에서의 수렴구간을 메시지 맵으로 만들고 이를 이용하여 처리속도를 향상시키는 Plane-converging BP 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한 GPU 아키텍쳐인 Nvidia의 CUDA를 이용하여 다수의 계산을 병렬화 하고 이를 동시에 처리하여 실시간 어플리케이션에 적합한 스테레오 매칭 기법을 개발하였다. Plane-converging BP 알고리즘은 기존의 계층적 BP 알고리즘과 유사한 에러율을 가지면서 약 2.7배의 속도 향상을 이루었다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 Levenberg-Marquardt(LM) 알고리즘 인공신경망을 통하여 지반공학 문제 중의 하나인 압축지수를 예측하였고, 예측된 결과는 현재 지반공학에 널리 사용되고 있는 Back Propagation(BP) 알고리즘 인공신경망의 예측 결과와 비교하여 LM 알고리즘의 지반공학 적용성을 평가하였다. 또한 두 알고리즘에 의한 예측치는 기존에 제안된 압축지수의 경험식들에 의하여 산정된 결과들과 비교를 통하여 예측결과의 정확성을 확인하였다. 경험식에 의한 압축지수의 산정치는 전반적으로 BP 알고리즘과 LM 알고리즘 인공신경망에 의한 예측치에 비하여 더 큰 오차를 나타냈다. LM 알고리즘에 의한 압축지수의 예측치는 BP 알고리즘의 예측치와 비교할 때 정확도는 비슷하나 수렴속도에서 더 좋은 결과를 보여 LM 알고리즘의 지반공학 적용성은 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39A권10호
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• pp.585-592
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• 2014

It is well known that serial belief propagation (BP) decoding for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes achieves faster convergence without any increase of decoding complexity per iteration and bit error rate (BER) performance loss than standard parallel BP (PBP) decoding. Serial BP (SBP) decoding, such as horizontal SBP (H-SBP) decoding or vertical SBP (V-SBP) decoding, updates check nodes or variable nodes faster than standard PBP decoding within a single iteration. In this paper, we propose combined horizontal-vertical SBP (CHV-SBP) decoding. By the same reasoning, CHV-SBP decoding updates check nodes or variable nodes faster than SBP decoding within a serialized step in an iteration. CHV-SBP decoding achieves faster convergence than H-SBP or V-SBP decoding. We compare these decoding schemes in details. We also show in simulations that the convergence rate, in iterations, for CHV-SBP decoding is about $\frac{1}{6}$ of that for standard PBP decoding, while the convergence rate for SBP decoding is about $\frac{1}{2}$ of that for standard PBP decoding. In simulations, we use recently proposed generalized LDPC (GLDPC) codes with binary cyclic codes (BCC).

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1129-1136
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• 2022

본 연구는 RSSI의 거리측정 방법이 외부 환경에 의해 쉽게 영향을 받아 위치 오차가 크다는 결점을 도출하였고 이 3차원 배치 환경에서 RSSI의 거리측정 노드에서 측정한 거리값을 최적화하는 문제에 대해 향상된 CA-PSO 알고리즘을 개선한 CA-PSO-BP 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 3차원 무선센서네트워크(WSN) 공간에서 인식할 수 없는 노드를 설정할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한, CA-PSO를 BP 신경망에 응용하므로, 학습을 통해 BP 네트워크의 학습시간 단축과 알고리즘의 수렴 속도를 제고 할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 제안한 알고리즘을 통해 네트워크의 위치의 정밀도를 현저(15%)하게 높일 수 있다는 것을 증명하였고 유의미한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.328-330
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• 2004

In this paper, ECG based cardiac disease diagnosis models are developed. Conventionally, ECG monitoring equipments can only measure and store ECG signals and they always require medical doctor's diagnosis actions which are not desirable for continuous ambulatory monitoring and diagnosis healthcare systems. In this paper, two kinds of neural based self cardiac disease diagnosis engines are developed and tested for four kinds of diseases, sinus bradycardia, sinus tachycardia, left bundle branch block and right bundle branch block. For diagnosis engines, error backpropagation neural network (BP) and probabilistic neural network (PNN) were applied. Five signal features including heart rate, QRS interval, PR interval, QT interval, and T wave types were selected for diagnosis characteristics. To show the validity of proposed diagnosis engine, MIT-BIH database were used to test. Test results showed that BP based diagnosis engine has 71% of diagnosis accuracy which is superior to accuracy of PNN based diagnosis engine. However, PNN based diagnosis engine showed superior diagnosis accuracy for complex-disease diagnoses than BP based diagnosis engine.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.175-190
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• 2023

This article aims to quantitatively predict the snowmelt in extreme cold regions, considering a combination of grayscale and neural models. The traditional non-equidistant GM(1,1) prediction model is optimized by adjusting the time-distance weight matrix, optimizing the background value of the differential equation and optimizing the initial value of the model, and using the BP neural network for the first. The adjusted ice forecast model has an accuracy of 0.984 and posterior variance and the average forecast error value is 1.46%. Compared with the GM(1,1) and BP network models, the accuracy of the prediction results has been significantly improved, and the quantitative prediction of the ice sheet is more accurate. The monitoring and maintenance of the structure by quantitative prediction model by gray models was clearly demonstrated in the model.

• Korean Circulation Journal
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.270-287
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• 2024

Background and Objectives: Blood pressure (BP) measurement using an auscultatory sphygmomanometer is recommended for diagnosing hypertension in children. As mercury sphygmomanometers (MSs) are banned owing to environmental concerns, it is crucial to determine the accuracy of mercury-free sphygmomanometers to replace them. We analyzed the accuracy of these devices to guide the National Survey selection. Methods: BP was measured thrice each with MS, auscultatory device (AD), and oscillometric device (OD) in 104 participants aged 10-18 using the National Survey data. The difference in BP was defined as the difference between MS and other devices. The BP differences, correlations, and influencing factors were analyzed. The frequencies of hypertension were also compared. Results: Systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) differences between MS and AD were 0.88±3.36 mmHg and 0.63±3.95 mmHg, and those between MS and OD were 0.43±5.83 mmHg and 4.57±6.89 mmHg, respectively. The absolute error of <10 mmHg for DBP between MS and OD was 76%. The concordance correlation coefficient between MS and AD was 0.94 for SBP and 0.90 for DBP, and 0.81 and 0.67, respectively for MS and OD. Arm circumference negatively correlated with BP differences except for SBP between the MS and OD. The frequency of hypertension was not different between MS and AD but was underestimated by OD. Conclusions: AD correlated well with MS, while OD did not, especially for DBP. The superiority of AD over OD suggests AD as a possible alternative for MS in the National Survey.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.552-557
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 신경망의 초기 파라미터(가중치, 바이어스) 값을 최적화 시키는 GA-BP(Genetic Algorithm-Backpropagation Network) 혼합 알고리즘을 이용하여 얼굴을 인식하는 방법을 제안하였다. 입력 영상의 각 픽셀들을 신경망의 입력으로 사용하고 고정 소수점 실수값으로 이루어진 신경망의 초기 파리미터 값은 유전자 알고리즘의 개체로 사용하기 위해 비트 스트링으로 변환한다. 신경망의 오차가 최소가 되는 값을 적합도로 정의한 뒤 새롭게 정의된 적응적 재학습 연산자를 이용하여 이를 평가해 최적의 진환된 신경망을 구성한 뒤 얼굴을 인식하는 실험을 하였다. 실험 결과 학습 수렴 속도의 비교에서는 오류 역전과 알고리즘 단독으로 실행한 수렴 속도보다 제안된 알고리즘의 수렴 속도가 향상된 결과를 보였고 인식률에서 오류 역전과 알고리즘 단독으로 실행한 방법보다 2.9% 향상된 것으로 나타났다.