• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 제13회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.959-962
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• 2000

A heart sound algorithm, which separates the heart sound signal into four parts; the first heart sound, the systolic period, the second heart sound, and the diastolic period has been developed. The algorithm uses discrete intensity envelopes of approximations of the wavelet transform analysis method to the phonocard-iogram(PCG)signal. Heart sound a highly nonstation-ary signal, so in the analysis of heart sound, it is important to study the frequency and time information. Further more, Wavelet Transform provides more features and characteristics of the PCG signal that will help physician to obtain qualitative and quantitative measurements of the heart sound.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.144-152
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• 2007

기존의 심음분류를 위한 연구들은 인공신경망을 이용하여 주로 이루어졌다. 그러나 심음신호의 통계적 특성을 분석 한 결과 HMM의 의한 신호모델링이 적합한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 질병을 나타내는 심음신호를 HMM을 이용하여 모델링 하고 인식성능이 심음신호의 클러스터링에 따라서 많이 좌우되는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 실제 환경에서의 심음신호는 그 시작과 끝나는 시점이 정해지지 않은 연속신호이다. 따라서 HMM을 이용한 심음분류를 위해서는 연속적인 심음신호로부터 한 사이클의 분할된 심음을 추출할 필요성이 있다. 일반적으로 수동분할은 분할오류를 발생시키며 실시간 심음인식에 적합하지 않으므로 분할과정이 필요치 않는 ergodic형 HMM을 변형하여 사용할 것을 제안하였다. 그리고 제안된 HMM은 연속심음을 이용한 분류실험에서 매우 높은 성능을 보임을 알 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1957-1962
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• 2003

In order to design the phantom of heart, we have developed the multi-dipole current source system. Such a one be clue to the various motion of heart. The magnetocardiograph (MCG) system for diagnosing the disease of the heart due to an analysis of the heart signal. The multidipole current source system be built by microprocessor. We use the shield room to obtain a good experimental result. Then the signal acquired is mixed with a background noise, through a filtering extracts a pure signal. The pure signal such a heart phantom is analyzed by an electromagnetic map.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.112-115
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• 2010

The heart rate is the most important vital sign in diagnosing heart status. The simple method to measure the heart rate in the mobile healthcare device is using the PPG signal. In developing the mobile healthcare device using the PPG signal, the most important issue is the inaccuracy of the measured heart rate because the PPG signal is distorted from the user's motions. To improve the problem, this study proposed the new method that is to estimate the heart rate without an additional sensor in real life. The proposed method in this study is using the histogram filter. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, the study compares its results with the moving average method in motion environment. According to the experimental results, the performance of the proposed method was more than 40% better than the performances of the MAF.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.1045-1048
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• 2000

This paper presents the application of the wavelet transform analysis and the neural network method to the phonocardiogram (PCG) signal. Heart sound is a acoustic signal generated by cardiac valves, myocardium and blood flow and is a very complex and nonstationary signal composed of many source. Heart sound can be discriminated normal heart sound and heart murmur. Murmurs have broader frequency bandwidth than the normal ones and can occur at random position of cardiac cycle. In this paper, we classified the group of heart sound as normal heart sound(NO), pre-systolic murmur(PS), early systolic murmur(ES), late systolic murmur(LS), early diastolic murmur(ED). And we used the wavelet transform to shorten artifacts and strengthen the low level signal. The ANN system was trained and tested with the back- propagation algorithm from a large data set of examples-normal and abnormal signals classified by expert. The best ANN configuration occurred with 15 hidden layer neurons. We can get the accuracy of 85.6% by using the proposed algorithm.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제27권2E호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2008

Stethoscopic auscultation is still one of the primary tools for the diagnosis of heart diseases due to its easy accessibility and relatively low cost. It is, however, a difficult skill to acquire. Many research efforts have been done on the automatic classification of heart sound signals to support clinicians in heart sound diagnosis. Recently, hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been used quite successfully in the automatic classification of the heart sound signal. However, in the classification using HMMs, there are so many heart sound signal types that it is not reasonable to assign a new class to each of them. In this paper, rather than constructing an HMM for each signal type, we propose to build an HMM for a set of acoustically-similar signal types. To define the classes, we use the KL (Kullback-Leibler) distance between different signal types to determine if they should belong to the same class. From the classification experiments on the heart sound data consisting of 25 different types of signals, the proposed method proved to be quite efficient in determining the optimal set of classes. Also we found that the class determination approach produced better results than the heuristic class assignment method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.294-294
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• 2000

In this paper, we would like to discuss the signal processing and the algorithm for ECG analysis. The ECG gives us information about the condition of the heart muscle, because myocardial abnormality or infarction is inscribed on the ECG during myocardial depolarization and repolarization. Analyzing the ECG signal, we can find heart disease, for example, arrhythmia and myocardial infarction, etc. Particularly, detecting arrhythmia is more important, because serious arrhythmia can take away the life from patients within ten minutes. The wavelet transform decomposes the ECG signal into high and low frequency component using wavelet function. Recomposing high frequency bands including QRS complex, we can detect QRS complex and eliminate the noise from the original ECG signal. To recognize the ECG signal pattern, we adopted the curve-fitting partially and statistical method. The ECG signal is divided into small parts based on QRS complex, and then, each part is approximated to the polynomials. Comparing the approximated ECG pattern with some kinds of heart disease ECG pattern, we can detect and classify the kind of heart disease.

• 예술인문사회 융합 멀티미디어 논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.701-709
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• 2019

최근에 헬스케어와 관련된 다양한 분야에서 생체신호 중 하나인 심박신호가 사용되고 있다. 기존에 제안된 심박신호 검출 방법으로는 접촉식 방법이 대부분이었지만, 피사체가 장치를 접촉하고 있어야 한다는 불편함의 문제가 있었다. 이를 해결하기 위해 최근 비접촉식 방법에 의한 검출 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 지정맥 인식을 위해 설계된 손가락 영상 촬영 장치를 이용해 심박 유사 신호를 얻어내는 방법을 제안한다. 검출된 심박 유사 신호는 지정맥의 위조 여부 판단과 심박 신호를 통한 다양한 응용분야에 활용될 수 있다. 제안하는 방법은 적외선을 이용한 지정맥 영상의 시간 도메인상의 밝기 값의 변화로부터 신호를 검출하고 영상처리 기반 알고리즘을 이용해 주파수 도메인으로 변환하였다. 변환 후, 대역 통과 필터링을 통해 심박신호와 관련이 없는 노이즈를 제거하였다. 신호의 정확성을 판단하기 위해 지정맥 획득 장치와 식품의약품안전처로부터 승인을 받은 접촉식 PPG 센서를 이용해 동시에 취득된 두 신호의 상관관계를 분석하였다. 결과적으로, 지정맥 영상을 통해 비접촉식으로 검출된 심박신호가 실제 심박신호의 파형과 일치함을 확인하는 것이 가능했다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.325-327
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• 2004

ECG limb lead II signal widely used to diagnosis heart diseases and it is essential to detect ECG events (onsets, offsets and peaks of the QRS complex P wave and T wave) and extract them from ECG signal for heart diseases diagnoses. However, it is very difficult to develop standardized feature extraction formulas since ECG signals are varying on patients and disease types. In this paper, simple feature extraction method from normal and abnormal types of ECG signals is proposed. As a signal features, heart rate, PR interval, QRS interval, QT interval, interval between S wave and baseline, and T wave types are extracted. To show the validity of proposed method, Right Bundle Branch Block (RBBB), Left Bundle Branch Block (LBBB), Sinus Bradycardia, and Sinus Tachycardia data from MIT-BIH arrhythmia database are used for feature extraction and the extraction results showed higher extraction capability compare to conventional formula based extraction method.

• 센서학회지
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• 제20권2호
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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.