• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.363.2-363.2
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• 2016

Stretchable strain sensors are becoming essential in diverse future applications, such as human motion detection, soft robotics, and various biomedical devices. One of the well-known approaches for fabricating stretchable strain sensors is to embed conductive nanomaterials such as metal nanowires/nanoparticles, graphene, conducting polymer and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) within an elastomeric substrate. Among various conducting nanomaterials, CNTs have been considered as important and promising candidate materials for stretchable strain sensors owing to their high electrical conductivity and excellent mechanical properties. In the past decades, CNT-based strain sensors with high stretchability or sensitivity have been developed. However, CNT-based strain sensors which show both high stretchability and sensitivity have not been reported. Herein, highly stretchable and sensitive strain sensors were fabricated by integrating single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and nylon textiles via vacuum-assisted spray-layer-by-layer process. Our strain sensors had high sensitivity with 100 % tensile strain (gauge factor ~ 100). Cyclic tests confirmed that our strain sensors showed very robust and reliable characteristic. Moreover, our SWNTs-based strain sensors were easily and successfully integrated on human finger and knee to detect bending and walking motion. Our approach presented here might be route to preparing highly stretchable and sensitive strain sensors with providing new opportunity to realize practical wearable devices.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.708-711
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• 2010

Purpose: The sheath of tendon is uncommon site of tuberculous involvement as compared to other parts of the body. Especially, tuberculous tenosynovitis affecting flexor tendon of the hand is a rare condition. In recent years, furthermore, the incidence of tuberculosis is increasing in our country. Tuberculous tenosynovitis is a chronic, slowly destructive disease, which is difficult to diagnosis before operation, but can be definitively diagnosed by the pathologic microscopic examination. Early detection and surgical excision combined with antituberculous medication is important. We report a rare case of tuberculous tenosynovitis of the flexor tendon of the hand. Method: A 12-year-old woman presented with a painless, nontender mass on palmar side between distal interphalangeal joint and proximal area of metacarpophalangeal joint of the left third finger. We had surgical excision of the involved flexor tendon sheath and studied histopathologically. Result: The histopathological findings were chronic granulomatous inflammation with caseating necrosis consistent with tuberculosis. We started antituberculous medication. Conclusion: Tuberculous tenosynovitis is a rare condition, especially involving on the flexor tendon of the hand. But because of increasing tendency of tuberculosis, it is important to differentiate it from other tumors of the hand.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제28권3호통권71호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2007

Objectives : To obtain pulse information, oriental medical doctors usually use the three finger pulse diagnosis method. Although the diagnostic positions are very important, the exact positions are not known because of the uncertain conversion of measures of length (bun, chon, chuk) and misunderstanding of the related concepts of oriental medicine. In this study, we proposed relative positions for the detection of three pulses with a pulse analyzer. Methods : The proposal was made based mainly on several literature reviews, especially the original texts, and the examination of anthropometric characteristics of 78 individuals. Results : The Kwan is the spot where the radial pulse can be felt well near the eminent head of the radius at wrist, high bone. The position of Chon should be apart from Kwan by 6/10 distance between the high bone and wrist joint of each individual. Finally, the position of Chuk is apart from Kwan by 6.5/100 distance between the high bone and the elbow joint of each individual. Conclusions : Adapting those proposed positions for measuring three pulses can provide more consistent information to what an oriental doctor obtains than a pulse analyzer applied to other positions.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.68-79
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• 2016

Electromyographic (EMG) signals have been widely used as motion commands of prosthetic arms. Although EMG signals contain meaningful information including the movement intentions of human body, it is difficult to predict the subject's motion by analyzing EMG signals in real-time due to the difficulties in extracting motion information from the signals including a lot of noises inherently. In this paper, four Ag/AgCl electrodes are placed on the surface of the subject's major muscles which are in charge of four upper arm movements (wrist flexion, wrist extension, ulnar deviation, finger flexion) to measure EMG signals corresponding to the movements. The measured signals are sampled using DAQ module and clustered sequentially. The Fuzzy C-Means (FCMs) method calculates the center values of the clustered data group. The fuzzy system designed to detect the upper arm movement intention utilizing the center values as input signals shows about 90% success in classifying the movement intentions.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.664-667
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• 2009

There is strong demand to create wearable PC systems that can support the user outdoors. When we are outdoors, our movement makes it impossible to use traditional input devices such as keyboards and mice. We propose a hand gesture interface based on image processing to operate wearable PCs. The semi-transparent PC screen is displayed on the head mount display (HMD), and the user makes hand gestures to select icons on the screen. The user's hand is extracted from the images captured by a color camera mounted above the HMD. Since skin color can vary widely due to outdoor lighting effects, a key problem is accurately discrimination the hand from the background. The proposed method does not assume any fixed skin color space. First, the image is divided into blocks and blocks with similar average color are linked. Contiguous regions are then subjected to hand recognition. Blocks on the edges of the hand region are subdivided for more accurate finger discrimination. A change in hand shape is recognized as hand movement. Our current input interface associates a hand grasp with a mouse click. Tests on a prototype system confirm that the proposed method recognizes hand gestures accurately at high speed. We intend to develop a wider range of recognizable gestures.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.2064-2071
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• 2012

스마트 폰의 일반화로 인해 스마트폰 게임이 많이 출시되고 있지만, 주로 터치 기능을 이용하여 화면 상의 상호작용을 통한 게임이 주류를 이루고 있다. 한편 기존의 가속도센서, 방향센서 외에 자이로센서 등 단말기의 위치와 동작을 인식하는 기능은 나날이 발전하고 있다. 따라서 사용자의 동작을 단말을 통해 인식하여 사용자 단말을 게임도구로 사용하는 게임의 개발이 기술적으로 가능해지고 있으나, 아직 구체화된 사례는 발견되지 않고 있다. 본 논문에서는 단말기의 동작 인식과 단말기간 상호 통신을 결합한 새로운 형태의 게임의 기본 틀과 알고리즘을 제시하고, 그 구현 내용과 결과를 제시한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권10C호
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• pp.829-835
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• 2008

최근 무안경식 3D 디스플레이 방법으로 잘 알려진 3D 집적 영상 시스템에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이 3D 집적 영상 기술은 연속적인 시점, 완전 시차와 풀 칼라 영상을 공중에 표현하는 유망한 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 한 대의 카메라를 이용한 새로운 형태의 인터렉티스 3D 집적 영상 시스템을 제안한다. 이 장치는 기존의 3D 집적 영상 디스플레이 시스템에 단순한 한 대의 카메라를 추가적으로 사용하여 유저 인터페이스가 구현될 수 있다. 제안하는 시스템의 가능성을 보이기 위해서, 실험적인 장치 구현을 수행하고 기초적인 실험 결과를 보고한다. 우리가 아는 한 제안하는 방법은 3D 집적 영상 시스템에 최초로 인터렉션 기능을 추가한 것이다.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.312-315
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• 2008

Purpose: Amelanotic melanoma represents a melanoma with an absence or a small number of melanin pigments and comprises 2% of all melanomas. These melanomas are frequently misdiagnosed, probably because of its nonspecific clinical features and difficulty in diagnosis, resulting in delayed diagnosis and treatment. We report a patient with amelanotic melanoma, who underwent surgical treatment with sentinel lymph node biopsy using gamma probe. Methods: A 32-year-old female was presented with a slowly growing ill-defined, hypopigmented nonerythematous lesion with nail defect on right index finger tip. Preoperative punch biopsy was performed, showing an amelanotic melanoma. Sentinel lymph node biopsy was done using gamma probe(Crystal probe system, CRYSTAL PHOTONICS GmbH, Germany) and confirmed no evidence of regional lymph node metastases. The patient underwent amputation at the proximal interphalangeal joint. Results: Histopathologic findings showed superficial spreading melanoma. There were no melanin pigments in Hematoxylin & Eosin stain but positive immunohistochemical stainings for S-100 protein and Hmb45, which were consistent with amelanotic melanoma. Patient's postoperative course was uneventful without any complication and had no evidence of recurrence of tumor in 6 months follow-up period. Conclusion: Amelanotic melanoma is extremely rare subtype of malignant melanoma with histopathologic findings of atypical melanocytes without melanin pigments. Early detection is crucial since survival is strongly related to tumor thickness and tissue invasion at the time of diagnosis. Wide excision is the treatment of choice and other conjunctive therapy has not been successful.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.291-299
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• 2012

Purpose: This study examined the improved sensory, hand function, postural balance and activities of daily living (ADL) through somatosensory stimulation, such as the facilitation of functional reaching and tactile, proprioceptive stimulus of the upper limb (UL) and hand. Methods: Seventeen stroke patients having problems with motor and somatosensory deficits were selected in Bobath Memorial Hospital adult rehabilitation center. The patients were divided into two groups; the sensorimotor deficit group (SMDG) and motor deficit group (MDG). Somatosensory stimulation on the UL, physical therapy and occupational therapy were carried out three times a week over a six week these treatments were performed in both group period. To compare each group, the following assessment tools were used: such as tactile detection thresholds (TDT), two point discrimination on the affected side (TPDas), unaffected side (TPDus) stereognosis (ST) manual function test, hand function on the affected side (HFas) and unaffected side (HFus), Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke (PASS) and Korean version Modified Barthel Index (K-MBI). Results: In the SMDG, somatosensory stimulation on the UL was statistically important for TDT, TPDas, TPDus (except for the thener), ST, hand function on HFas, on HFus, PASS length of displacement with foam (LDFSEO), and K-MBI. In the MDG, somatosensory stimulation on the UL was important for TDT, TPDas, TPDus (except index finger) length of displacement with the eyes open, LDFSEO, HFas, HFus, PASS and K-MBI. In addition, there was a significant difference in the PASS between SMDG and MDG. Conclusion: Somatosensory stimulation on the UL affects the sensory, hand function, postural control and ADLs performance.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.47-60
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• 2011

모바일 디바이스(mobile device)를 통한 전자금융거래가 급속하게 증가하면서 이를 대상으로 한 공격시도도 점차 늘어나고 있다. 다양한 보안수단들이 적용되고 있지만, 모바일뱅킹(mobile banking)에 사용되는 디바이스에 원격으로 침입을 한 뒤 공격하는 방법 및 디바이스를 물리적으로 획득하여 전자금융사고를 유발할 수 있는 위험이 여전히 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 디바이스에서의 전자금융사고 예방 대책으로 개인별 입력패턴을 분석하여 본인에 의한 전자금융거래 시도인지 유무를 판단하여 선제적으로 대응할 수 있는 방안을 제안한다. 화면 터치(touch)를 통해 입력하는 모바일 디바이스의 특성상 터치 시간이나 압력 등의 패턴(pattern)은 개인별로 차이가 있으므로 이를 모니터링(monitoring) 함으로써 정상적인 모바일뱅킹 고객과 공격자를 구분할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제시된 방안의 효용성을 증명하기 위해 모바일 디바이스에서의 개인별 입력패턴 정보를 실제 수집하여 실험하였고, 실험결과 입력패턴 정보 분석을 통해 전자금융사고를 효과적으로 예방할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한, 본 논문에서는 이러한 입력패턴 정보의 모니터링을 이용하여 불법적인 전자금융거래에 실시간으로 대응하는 방안도 제안한다.