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Study for the Pseudonymization Technique of Medical Image Data (의료 이미지 데이터의 비식별화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Baek, Jongil;Song, Kyoungtaek;Choi, Wonkyun;Yu, Khiguen;Lee, Pilwoo;In, Hanjin;Kim, Cheoljung;Yeo, Kwangsoo;Kim, Soonseok
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2016
  • The recent frequent cases of damage due to leakage of medical data and the privacy of medical patients is increasing day by day. The government says the Privacy Rule regulations established for these victims, such as prevention. Medical data guidelines can be seen 'national medical privacy guidelines' is only released. When replacing the image data between the institutions it has been included in the image file (JPG, JPEG, TIFF) there is exchange of data in common formats such as being made when the file is leaked to an external file there is a risk that the exposure key identification information of the patient. This medial image file has no protection such as encryption, This this paper, introduces a masking technique using a mosaic technique encrypting the image file contains the application to optical character recognition techniques. We propose pseudonymization technique of personal information in the image data.

A Study for Sharing Patient Medical Information with Demographic Datasets (환자 의료 정보 공유 및 데이터 통합을 위한 데모그래픽 데이터 활용 연구)

  • Lim, Jongwoo;Jung, Eun-Young;Jeong, Byoung-Hui;Park, Dong Kyun;Whangbo, Taeg-Keun
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.51 no.10
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    • pp.128-136
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    • 2014
  • Recently, although exponentially growing the quantity of information that have been used and shared on internet networks, the patient information of each medical center have not been used and shared among medical centers due to the protection of patients privacy and the different database schema. To address this problem, we have studied the data structure of the patient information, the standard of medical information for patients we propose a patient information sharing system design that each medical center is able to use and share the patient information among medical centers in spite of different patient information systems with protecting patients privacy.

A Study on an Efficient and Robust Differential Privacy Scheme Using a Tag Field in Medical Environment

  • Kim, Soon-Seok
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.24 no.11
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 2019
  • Recently, the invasion of privacy in medical information has been issued following the interest in the secondary use of mass medical information. The mass medical information is very useful information that can be used in various fields such as disease research and prevention. However, due to privacy laws such as the Privacy Act and Medical Law, this information, including patients' or health professionals' personal information, is difficult to utilize as a secondary use of mass information. To do these problem, various methods such as k-anonymity, l-diversity and differential-privacy that can be utilized while protecting privacy have been developed and utilized in this field. In this paper, we discuss the differential privacy processing of the various methods that have been studied so far, and discuss the problems of differential privacy using Laplace noise and the previously proposed differential privacy. Finally, we propose a new scheme to solve the existing problem by adding a 1-bit status field to the last column of a given data set to confirm the response to queries from analysts.

Research Trend Analysis of Traditional Korean Medicine Supported by the Government - on the Research Reports from 2002 to 2007 Year - (정부지원 한의학 과제의 연구동향 분석 - 2002~2007년 연구과제 보고서를 대상으로 -)

  • Yea, Sang-Jun;Jang, Hyun-Chul;Kim, Jin-Hyun;Kim, Chul;Kim, Sang-Kyun;Song, Mi-Young
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.15-28
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    • 2009
  • Traditional korean medicine which has long history and many clinical experiments stands out in bold relief because the medicine's point of view has been changed from medical treatment to disease protection and the wellbeing life through health care and complementary alternative medicine has been emerged for the incurable disease. Many traditional korean medical research has been conducted in the fields of preventive medical application, leading material drawing and medical service upgrade through eastern and western medical treatment and the more advanced project are being studied as time goes by. But because we have the hardship of manifesting traditional korean medicine's knowledge into detailed data and information in the field of analytical science and we don't have well arranged research trend data of it, researchers are using much time to survey the preceding research and planners needing more accurate research trend data to protect duplication and raise efficiency. So we have studied the traditional korean medicine's research trend to solve this problems by the method of bibliography applied for the preceding project results. Through the analysis of traditional korean medicine's 370 project reports we came to a conclusion that the R&D investment is concentrated on the university and research institute, the utilization projects are lower than basic and applied research, regional snobbism is excessive than the whole nation's R&D and advanced project has been started since 2006.

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Research Using Human Biological Materials and Institutional Review Board Review (인체유래물을 사용하는 연구와 Institutional Review Board 심의 )

  • Mi-Kyung Lee
    • The Journal of KAIRB
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 2024
  • Recently, with the development of biotechnology and molecular genetics, research using human biological materials has been receiving attention, and the demand for the use of human- biological materials has also increased significantly. In particular, human biological materials contain the personal information of the person providing them, so special care must be taken to protect personal information throughout the entire process from drafting the human biological materials research plan, Institutional Review Board (IRB) review, and research progress. In addition, it is important to appropriately utilize residual human biological materials obtained during medical diagnosis and treatment at medical institutions to achieve scientific results, while protecting the rights of human biological materials providers and improving the method of expressing consent so as not to damage the trust of human biological materials providers in researchers. To this end, it is necessary to provide sufficient information and education so that researchers and IRB members can understand and apply related laws such as the Bioethics Act and the Personal Information Protection Act.

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De-identifying Unstructured Medical Text and Attribute-based Utility Measurement (의료 비정형 텍스트 비식별화 및 속성기반 유용도 측정 기법)

  • Ro, Gun;Chun, Jonghoon
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.121-137
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    • 2019
  • De-identification is a method by which the remaining information can not be referred to a specific individual by removing the personal information from the data set. As a result, de-identification can lower the exposure risk of personal information that may occur in the process of collecting, processing, storing and distributing information. Although there have been many studies in de-identification algorithms, protection models, and etc., most of them are limited to structured data, and there are relatively few considerations on de-identification of unstructured data. Especially, in the medical field where the unstructured text is frequently used, many people simply remove all personally identifiable information in order to lower the exposure risk of personal information, while admitting the fact that the data utility is lowered accordingly. This study proposes a new method to perform de-identification by applying the k-anonymity protection model targeting unstructured text in the medical field in which de-identification is mandatory because privacy protection issues are more critical in comparison to other fields. Also, the goal of this study is to propose a new utility metric so that people can comprehend de-identified data set utility intuitively. Therefore, if the result of this research is applied to various industrial fields where unstructured text is used, we expect that we can increase the utility of the unstructured text which contains personal information.

Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Hospital Workers' Perception for Protection of Personal Health Information (의료기관 근로자의 환자 개인정보 보호 인식에 대한 평가도구 개발 및 검증)

  • Cha, Ki-Jung;Ha, Yeong-Mi
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.1253-1263
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study was to develop and examine a validity and reliability of an instrument to assess hospital workers' perception for protection of personal health information. The process included construction of a conceptual framework, generation of initial items, verification of content validity, preliminary study, and extraction of final items. Content validity was verified by 3 experts from nursing and health information management areas, and the construct validity was evaluated by item analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability was examined by Cronbach's alpha. The participants were 279 hospital workers including nurses, administrative officers, and other medical health professionals. Using a confirmatory factor analysis, a four-factor structure was validated with construct validity. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of a total of 13 items categorized into 4 factors was .83. Finally, the instrument is a valid and reliable to assess hospital workers' perception for protection of personal health information.

A Study on International Exchange of Traditional Herb Medicine (전통 약물의 국제 교류에 관한 소고(小考))

  • Cho, Sunyoung;Kim, Jiyeon;Kang, Yeonseok
    • The Journal of Korean Medical History
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.123-134
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    • 2013
  • Traditional medicine has been exchanged constantly from prehistoric times up to the present. As the global market trade on traditional medicine increases, people now emphasized the importance of traditional medicine. Previously, knowledge about herbal medicines are taught or learned indirectly. Most of it was learned through medical books. But in these contemporary times, herbal medicine's knowledge is shared through journals, congress and some other events in where traditional medicine's information are shared. In the international congress gathering; traditional medicine's experts from many countries shared some additional knowledge. First, "an attitude to medicine that emphasizes on Naturalism". Second, "respect for experienced in traditional medicine". Third, "respect for locality on traditional medicine". Fourth, "a protection for domestic traditional medicine industry" Fifth, "acceptance of traditional medicine from other countries according to domestic health care system".

New data on Limoniinae and Limnophilinae crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) of Korea

  • Podenas, Sigitas;Park, Sun-Jae;Byun, Hye-Woo;Kim, A-Young;Klein, Terry A.;Kim, Heung-Chul;Aukstikalniene, Rasa
    • Journal of Species Research
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.492-531
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    • 2020
  • This study is based on crane fly specimens collected from 1936-2019 and are in collections maintained at the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA; the Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA; the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest, Hungary, and the National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, South Korea. The genus Dicranophragma Osten Sacken, 1860 with two species D. (Brachylimnophila) transitorium (Alexander, 1941) and D. (Dicranophragma) melaleucum melaleucum (Alexander, 1933), is a new record for the Korean Peninsula. New findings of Dicranomyia (Erostrata) submelas Kato et al., 2018, Dicranoptycha venosa Alexander, 1924a, Austrolimnophila (Archilimnophila) subunicoides(Alexander, 1950b), A. (A.) unica (Osten Sacken, 1869), A. (Austrolimnophila) asiatica (Alexander, 1925), Conosia irrorata (Wiedemann, 1828), Eloeophila persalsa (Alexander, 1940), E. serenensis (Alexander, 1940), E. subaprilina (Alexander, 1919), E. ussuriana ussuriana (Alexander, 1933), E. yezoensis (Alexander, 1924b), Paradelphomyia chosenica Alexander, 1950b, and P. macracantha Alexander, 1957 are discussed. General information on genera and subgenera morphological characters, redescriptions of species based on Korean specimens, illustrations of both sexes, elevation range, period of activity, habitat information, general distribution, and a distribution map for the Korean Peninsula (including North Korea) are presented for each species.

A Study on Establishment of Essential Performance Evaluation Criteria for C-arm Computed Tomography (C-arm CT의 필수 성능평가 기준 마련을 위한 연구)

  • Kim, Eun-Hye;Park, Hye-Min;Kim, Jung-Min
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 2022
  • In order to overcome the image quality limitations of the conventional C-arm, a flat panel detector (FPD) is used to enhance spatial resolution, detective quantum efficiency, frame rate, and dynamic range. Three-dimensional (3D) visualized information can be obtained from C-arm computed tomography (CT) equipped with an FPD, which can reduce patient discomfort and provide various medical information to health care providers by conducting procedures in the interventional procedure room without moving the patient to the CT scan room. Unlike a conventional C-arm device, a C-arm CT requires different basic safety and essential performance evaluation criteria; therefore, in this study, basic safety and essential performance evaluation criteria to protect patients, medical staff, and radiologists were derived based on International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) standards in Korea, and the rules on the installation and operation of special medical equipment in Korea. As a result of the study, six basic safety evaluation criteria related to electrical and mechanical radiation safety (leakage current, collision protection, emergency stopping device, overheating, recovery management, and ingress of water or particulate matter into medical electrical (ME) equipment and ME systems: footswitches) and 14 essential performance evaluation criteria (accuracy of tube voltage, accuracy of tube current, accuracy of loading time, accuracy of current time product, reproducibility of radiation output, linearity and consistency in radiography, half layer value in X-ray equipment, focal size and collimator, relationship between X-ray field and image reception area, consistency of light irradiation versus X-ray irradiation, performance of the mechanical device, focal spot to skin distance accuracy, image quality evaluation, and technical characteristic of cone-beam computed tomography) were selected for a total of 20 criteria.