• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.94-98
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• 1998

최근 온열 환경에서 인간의 쾌적감에 대한 관심이 커지고 있다. 온열쾌적감에 영향을 주는 요인들로는 온도, 습도, 기류 둥의 물리적 요인과 성별이나 체질 둥의 개인적인 요인들 뿐만 아니라 온열환경에서 느끼는 인간의 감성적인 측면도 요인으로 작용하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 여러가지 온열 환경 중에서 기류환경에 따른 인간의 온열 쾌적감을 평가하기 위해 생체반응의 변화 및 감성의 변화에 따른 생리신호를 분석을 통해 살펴보았다. 기류환경은 기존에 사용되고 있는 풍향변화기류 및 풍량변화기류와 새롭게 개발되어진 감성기류의 3가지 기류 조건을 제시하였고, 이에 따른 인체의 자율신경계의 반응과 감성 상태를 관찰하기 위해 심전도(ECG)와 뇌파(EEC)를 측정하여 HRV(Heart Rate Variability) 분석과 EEG 주파수 스펙트럼 분석을 시행하였다. 생리신호 분석결과 심전도의 HRV 분석에서는 감성기류가 풍향변화 기류와 풍속변화기류에 비해 HF/LF 비가 높게 나타났고, 뇌파의 주파수 스펙트럼 분석에서도 $\beta$파에 대한 뇌파의 상대 전력비가 감성기류에서 높게 나타나 감성기류가 제시된 다른 기류인 풍향변화기류나 풍속변화기류에 비해 쾌적한 온열환경 제시를 위한 기류조건이라고 평가되었다. 결론적으로 심전도의 HRV분석과 뇌파의 주파수 분석이 .제시된 기류환경의 온열쾌적감 평가에서 서로 유의한 결과를 나타냄으로써, 이들 생리신호의 분석이 온열환경에 따른 인간의 감성 변화를 객관적으로 나타내고 온열 쾌적감을 평가하는데 있어 유용한 정보가 될 수 있음을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1999.03a
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• pp.163-167
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• 1999

사회와 생활수준의 발달로 인간은 자연환경하에서 생활보다 인공적 환경하에서의 생활이 증가하게 되었다. 따라서 인간은 쾌적한 생활공간을 요구하게 되었고 이를 위한 온열환경에 대한 연구가 진행되어져 왔다. 이러한 생활공간에서의 쾌적한 온열환경에 영향을 주는 물리적 요인으로는 온도와 습도 그리고 기류 등이 있다. 또한 온열환경에 대한 인간의 감성적 측면도 쾌적한 온열환경을 결정하는데 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 연구에서는 겨울철 대류난방시 인간에게 가장 쾌적한 환경을 제시할 수 있는 기류 속도의 범위를 찾고, 이를 평가하는데 객관적인 지표를 설정하기 위해 온도에 따른 기류조건을 제시하고, HRV 분석을 통하여 인체의 자율신경계의 변화를 관찰하였다. 실험결과 18$^{\circ}C$, 21$^{\circ}C$, 24$^{\circ}C$ 각각의 온도에서 draft를 초래하지 않는 0.15m/sec의 기류속도일 때 가장 높은 MF/(LF+HF) 값을 보여 쾌적한 기류조건으로 나타났고 이는 쾌불쾌감신고(CSV)와 동일한 결과를 나타내었다. 이러한 심전도 신호를 통한 HRV 분석은 기류조건에 따른 온열쾌적성의 평가에도 객관적이고 신뢰성 있는 지표로 제시될 수 있을 것이다. 또한 다른 환경하에서의 감성평가 척도로도 이용될 수 있을 것이라고 생각되어진다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.118-123
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• 2011

Heart related diseases mainly caused by heavy work load and increasing stress in human daily life. Therefore, researches on mobile healthcare monitoring for daily life has been carried out. Notably, wearable healthcare monitoring system which has least restriction has been tried to provide an emergency alert of abnormal heart rate. In this study, we developed chair type unconstrained BCG measurement system which able to perform continuous heart status monitoring at the office and daily life in the unconstrained way. Furthermore, adaptive threshold is used to detect the heart rate from BCG signals. The HRV(heart rate variability) is calculated from heart rate interval. ECG signal measured using conventional method and BCG signal measured using unconstraint system are carried out simultaneously for the purpose of performance evaluation. From the comparison result, BCG signal shows a similar heart beat characteristic as ECG signal. This proves the possibility of practical implementation of unconstraint healthcare monitoring system. In addition, medical examination like valsalva maneuver is performed to observe the changes in HRV due to stress. By performing valsalva maneuver, heart is said to be placed under an artificial physical stress condition. Under this artificial physical stress condition, the time and frequency domain of HRV parameters are evaluated.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1996 no.11
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• pp.217-220
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• 1996

In this paper, we compare three mehods to obtain PSD of HRV - FFT, AR modeling, and residual integration. Using these methods we speculate the balances of the LP and HF powers of HRV at $0^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, $90^{\circ}$ tilt levels of head-up tilt table for young and healthy 24 men. R peaks are located at the highest point of QRS complex detected from modified spacial velocity algorithm. In general FFT is the most fast way to obtain PSD but PSD from FFT has too many peaks and valleies. AR PSD can show frequency of ANS activity effectively but LF component of PSD is often invisible due to interference of VLF power. The residual integration method that decomposes the AR PSD is very efficient way to extract LF component. Applying the above three methods to HRV we can visualize the trend of PSD variations along tilt levels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.148-151
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• 2010

심장관련 질환은 현대사회에서 업무 과중과 스트레스에 의해 발병 가능성이 높아지고 있으며, 일상생활 중 건강상태를 지속적으로 모니터링하여 심장질환 관련 응급상황에 대처하기위한 많은 연구들이 수행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 가정 또는 사무실에서 무구속적인 방법으로 지속적인 심장 활동상태의 모니터링이 가능한 무구속 의자형 심탄도 계측 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현된 시스템에서 계측된 심탄도 신호로부터 건강모니터링을 위한 특징성분을 검출하기위해 웨이브렛 변환과 템플릿 매칭을 혼합한 신호처리방법을 제안하였다. 또한 적응 문턱치를 통해 심탄도 신호에서 심박동을 검출하였으며 심박동의 간격으로부터 HRV(heart rate variabillity)를 계산하였다. 구현된 시스템의 성능평가를 위하여 심전도와 동시에 심탄도를 측정하였으며, 두 신호로부터 심박동 검출 성능을 비교하여 구현된 무구속 의자형 심탄도 계측 시스템의 유용성 및 무자각 건강모니터링의 가능성을 확인하였다. 또한 스트레스에 따른 HRV의 변화를 관찰하기 위하여 피실험자로부터 인위적으로 숨을 참고 강제호기를 통해 흉강내압을 증가시켜 인위적인 육체적 스트레스를 가하는 발살바를 유도하였으며, HRV의 시간 및 주파수 영역에서 도출되는 파라미터들을 평가하여 심탄도 모니터링을 통해 안정 상태와 스트레스 상태의 판별 및 무구속 건강모니터링의 가능성을 평가하였다.

• The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.443-455
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• 2008

Objectives : This study was designed to research whether HRV can yield a suitable diagnosis for activity of autonomic nerve system on functional dyspepsia. Methods : The testing of HRV was carried out at the Oriental Medical Center of Dong-Eui University with the participation of 28 functional dyspepsia patients, 25 dyspepsia caused by organic disease patients and 33 control group people. We checked HRV of the three groups for 5 minutes and compared HRV index(frequency domain analysis: HF, LF, VLF, LF/HF Ratio, TP) between groups. Results were as follows : 1. In the frequency domain analysis, HF, LF, VLF, and TP were significantly lower than the control group in the functional dyspepsia patients and dyspepsia caused by organic disease groups. HF, LF, VLF, LF/HF ratio, and TP were not significantly different between functional dyspepsia group and dyspepsia caused by organic disease group. 2. Age in dyspepsia patient group was significantly higher than in the control group. 3. In the frequency domain analysis, LF, VLF, and TP were significantly lower in the functional dyspepsia group than the control group in age 20-30 years. HF, LF, VLF, LF/HF ratio, and TP were not significantly different between the control group and dyspepsia caused by organic disease group in ages 20-30 years. HF, LF, VLF, LF/HF ratio, and TP were not significantly different between functional dyspepsia group and dyspepsia caused by organic disease group in age 20-30 years. Conclusion : According to this study, autonomic nerve system and parasympathetic nerve system decreased more in the functional dyspepsia patient group compared with the control group.

• The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2008

Objectives : Essential hyperhidrosis is a socially and occupationally disabling disorder. There are many suggestions that hyperhidrosis is associated with the autonomic nervous system. This study was designed to investigate the autonomic nerve system the patients with hyperhidrosis. Methods : 348 palmar and plantar hyperhidrosis patients and 20 systemic hyperhidrosis patients in the ambulatory care were investigated. All patients were inspected at the first medical examination, using the PSA of HRV. HRV was measured for 5 minutes after 5 minutes' bed rest. We checked the frequency domain analysis of HRV (i.e. TP, VLF, LF, HF and LF/HF) which were transformed into natural logarithm of patients against the standard measures of the HRV components. Then, we compared the means of patients with means and highest values of in the normal range of Koreans 1) between the patients with palmar and plantar hyperhidrosis and the healthy controls and 2) between the patients with the systemic hyperhidrosis and healthy controls, by the frequency domain analysis of heart rate variability (HRV), respectively. We then compared the results between 1) and 2). Results : The values of natural logarithmic measures of LF/HF ratio in the patients with palmar and plantar hyperhidrosis we examined were significantly higher than the values of healthy controls, but those in the patients with systemic hyperhidrosis were not higher. Conclusion : This study suggests that the autonomic nervous function did not simply increase but that the balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous function did matter in patients with palmar and plantar hyperhidrosis. This balance included that the sympathetic nervous function aggravated comparatively with parasympathetic nervous function. On the other hand, we couldn't find any significance of the patients with the systemic hyperhidrosis as for the autonomic nervous function.

• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.136-145
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• 2014

Objectives : The purpose of this randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial was to examine how acupuncture treatment at Shinmun(HT7) affects the brain activity and the autonomic nervous system(ANS), using electroencephalograms(EEG) and heart rate variability(HRV). Methods : Eighteen healthy volunteers participated in two separate experiments: in each experiment, either real acupuncture(RA) or non-penetrating sham acupuncture(SA) was applied at HT7 in random sequences to each person. The EEG and HRV measurements were conducted simultaneously before and during the acupuncture stimulation for 5 minutes, respectively. Resulting EEG and HRV parameters were compared between RA and SA groups. To assess differences according to the stress levels for participants, subgroup analysis was performed based on the results of the stress response index questionnaire. Results : In the results, acupuncture stimulation at HT7 increased ${\alpha}$ band in EEG. In the HRV analysis, heart rate was decreased significantly but HF and RMS-SD were increased in the RA group, compared with those of the SA group. In the subgroup analysis by stress level, participants in the RA group with high stress exhibited an increased in ${\alpha}$ band in their EEG while the low stress participants showed decrease or little increase in the band. For the SA group, ${\alpha}$ band reported relatively moderate changes in all channels. Conclusions : Our results showed that acupuncture induces changes in brain activation and the ANS. Acupuncture was related to the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system. The brain activities of the participants were different depending on the stress level.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.2460-2470
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• 2009

In this study, the parameter extraction for evaluation of the anesthesia depth in each anesthesia stages was conducted. An object of the this experiment study has studied 5 adult patients (mean $\pm$ SD age:$42{\pm}9.13$), ASA classification I and II, undergoing surgery of obstetrics and gynecology. Anaesthesia was maintained with Enflurane. HRV signal was created by R-peak detection algorithm form ECG signal. The HRV data were preprocessing algorithm. It has tried find out the anesthesia parameter which responds the anesthesia events and shows objective anesthesia depth according to anesthesia stage including pre-anesthesia, induction, maintenance, awake and post-anesthesia. In this study, proposed algorithm to analysis the HRV(heart rate variability) signal using wavelet transform in anesthesia stage. Three sorts of wavelet functions applied to PSD. In the result, all of the results were showed similarly. But experiment results of Daubeches 10 is better. Therefore, this parameter is the best parameter in the evaluation of anesthesia stage.

• The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.844-852
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• 2005

Objectives : Through spectral analysis of heart rate variability(HRV) to study autonomic nervous system dysfunction of Hwabyung, culture related disease in Korea. Methods : HRV of 18 patients diagnosed as Hwabyung was measured against 13 healthy controls. HRV was measured by SA-2000p(Mediocre, Korea) for five minutes after 5 minutes resting. Results : 1. In time domain analysis, mean pulse rate(PRT) of in Hwabyung group was significantly higher than healthy controls. Standard deviation of all normal P-P intervals(SDNN), the square root of the mean of the sum of the squares of differences between adjacent normal P-P intervals(RMS-SD) in Hwabyung group was lower than healthy controls, but not significant. 2. As for frequency domain analysis, In TP(logarithmic total power), In VLF(logarithmic very low frequency), and In LF(logarithmic low frequency )in Hwabyung group was significantly lower than healthy controls. Ln HF(logarithmic high frequency), LF/HF ratio in Hwabyung group was also lower but not significant. Conclusions : This study suggests tile activity and imbalance of cardiac autonomous nervous system in Hwabyung patient is significantly lower than healthy individuals.