• 대한디지털의료영상학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2010

The representative study of Patellofemoral Joint Merchant method can show the view for inspection of the sulcus angle, congruence angle and diagnose whether there are the vertical fractures and recognize the degree of dislocation and patella subluxation. However, anatomical correlation about the degree of knee joint curvature changes during position adjustment and distortion of the image reduces reproducibility. In order to resolve these problems, Merchant method needs to use assisting device which reduces the occurrence of repeat projection and effectively to increase unification of examination and the consistency of the image. However, there are disadvantages for patients who take other examinations. For example, they have to change the position for every examination and it might cause the patient's discomfort and increase of examination time. In this study, we newly devised commercial assisting device which improves the reproducibility of the images and reduces inconvenience of patients movement. Further research should be taken to obtain a image without patient's movement and to reduce the time of the examination than existing method.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.3465-3471
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 행동이 불편한 특히 손의 사용이 부자연스러운 장애인이나 일반인이 자신이 원하는 신체 부위를 이용하여 컴퓨터상의 프로그램을 자연스럽게 제어할 수 있는 카메라 기반 보조기기 시스템을 제안한다. 기존의 컴퓨터 보조기기의 경우 특수한 하드웨어를 사용하거나 높은 가격으로 인해 장애인들의 이용률이 매우 낮으며 대부분 외국산 제품에 의존하는 실정이다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 저가의 웹캠을 활용하여 기존의 마우스 기능을 대신할 수 있고, 장애인들의 컴퓨터 접근성을 높일 수 있는 경제적이고 효과적인 인터페이스를 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 사용자가 특정 색깔이나 특정 마크가 표시된 스티커를 임의의 기기(안경, 머리띠)나 신체 일부(이마, 코)등에 부착하여 카메라를 통해 색깔이나 마커에 대한 정보를 입력 받은 후 이 정보를 영상 처리 기술을 통해 분석 한 후 처리된 정보(좌표)를 특정 이벤트(키보드, 마우스)에 연결하여 다양한 응용 프로그램을 제어하는 방법이다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 시스템이 기존의 방법에 비해 가격이나 성능 면에서 뛰어난 결과를 보임을 확인할 수 있다.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제22권3_1spc호
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• pp.580-586
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• 2013

In general, manual wheelchairs have played important roles in moving patients from one place to another. However, patients have experienced discomfort getting on and off because of the need for physical assistance. This can be more serious if a patient has handicaps involving the arms or legs. In addition, it could be unpleasant for both the patient and assistant because of the need for extensive physical contact with each other. At times, a weak nurse feels that there is a risk when transferring a heavy patient from a bed to a wheelchair. In this paper, a new non-powered wheelchair is designed to assist in transferring a patient to their bed. This design considers the convenience of both the patient and assistant when the patient is transferred from a wheelchair to a bed and vice versa. The operation minimizes the physical contact between the assistant and the patient. The new wheelchair is also lightweight and portable compared with the normal popular wheelchair.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.93-96
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• 2010

슬관절 후방십자인대 손상이 의심되는 응급환자의 슬대퇴 관절을 촬영하기 위한 보조기구를 제작하고 그 유용성을 평가하고자 하였다. 실험 방법은 2006년 1월부터 2006년 12월까지 슬관절 손상으로 을지대학병원에 내원한 환자 중 후방십자인대 손상 의증으로 Knee post stress view와 Knee Merchant view 그리고 보조기구를 이용한 Knee post stress view를 모두 촬영하고, 무릎 MRI(Knee MRI)검사를 시행한 17명을 대상으로 하였다. $170{\times}50{\times}70\;cm$의 보조 기구를 제작하였으며 Knee post stress view와 보조기구를 이용한 Knee Seo's view에서 경골의 후방전위 간격을 측정하여 유용성을 평가하였다. 그 결과 보조기구를 이용한 Knee Seo's view가 기존의 Knee post stress view에 비해 후방십자인대 손상 여부의 판단이 더 정확한 것으로 나타났다. 기존 촬영법의 경골 후방전위 간격 차이는 $6.17{\pm}3.04$이었으며, 보조기구를 이용한 촬영법의 경골 후방전위 간격 차이는 $8.74{\pm}4.47$이었다. 결론적으로 자체 제작 보조기구를 이용한 슬대퇴 관절 촬영법은 기존에 슬관절면 손상을 보기 위한 Knee Merchant view와 후방십자인대 손상을 보기 위한 Knee post stress view를 동시에 1회 촬영으로 끝낼 수 있었으며, 기존의 Knee post stress view 보다 후방십자인대 손상 여부를 보다 정확하게 알 수 있었다. 따라서 후방십자인대 및 슬대퇴 관절 손상이 의심되는 응급환자에서 talometer나 MRI 검사의 선행 검사로 유용하게 이용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.579-581
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• 2004

We wish to develop micro-total analysis system (TAS) on a chip, and to make a trial approach to solve the important problem that is to detect ions separated by the electric field. We propose an idea, which is as for rotational motions of dipolar ions, which are affected by the ion atmosphere in outer regions. This is a new kind of the ion-sensitive field effect transistor (ISFET). We wish to develop the ISFET chips, and give more effective, fast and sensitive, capillary electrophoresis is designed in near future.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2011년도 춘계학술논문집 1부
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• pp.425-427
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• 2011

논문에서는 손의 사용이 부자연스러운 장애인이나 일반인이 컴퓨터상의 프로그램을 자연스럽게 제어할 수 있는 카메라 기반 정보통신 보조기기 시스템을 제안한다. 기존의 컴퓨터 보조기기의 경우 특수한 하드웨어를 사용하거나 높은 가격으로 인해 장애인들의 이용률이 매우 낮으며 대부분 외국산 제품에 의존하는 실정이다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 저가의 웹캠을 활용하여 기존의 마우스 기능을 대신할 수 있고, 장애인들의 컴퓨터 접근성을 높일 수 있는 경제적이고 효과적인 인터페이스를 제안한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 시스템이 기존의 방법에 비해 가격이나 성능 면에서 뛰어난 결과를 보임을 확인할 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.957-962
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• 2005

Today, the elderly is increasing gradually in the Republic of Korea society and this problem will be more serious in the near future. Therefore, engineering support for aged people is required. We are establishing a new field of healthcare engineering for elderly people and aiming to support for aged people and disabled people using adaptive control and instrument technology. In this paper, the goal is to implement the shared control of a robot mobility aid for the elderly. As using this type of assistive technology to be useful by its intended user community, it supports elderly people and handicapped people to live independently in their private homes. The interface transforms the force applied by the user into the robot's motion. Devices like buttons, joysticks, and levers already exist for relaying user input; however, they require hand displacement that would loosen or otherwise release the user's hold. Such interfaces make operation very difficult and potentially unsafe. Therefore, we propose a shared control system. It's safe more than joysticks and buttons. The shared control is a means of registering the user's intention through physical interaction. It's an important component in the development of robotic elderly assistant. The concept of shared control describes a system which is two or more independent control systems. We are using that the three component blocks consist of pressure sensor (flexible force sensor), circuit of measurement and transfer function. Experimental trials of this paper have been tested at the indoor environment. The robot is able to know the user intended direction through haptic device were logged along with the robot's force sensor.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.967-976
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• 1996

Straw and other fibrous by-products are inevitably produced during cereal production and have traditionally been used for many purposes including feeding animals . The potential of these by -products as a feed resource for ruminants is being increasingly appreciated (FAO , 1977). In the future, the amount of cereals fed to farm animals will have to be reduced and livestock will have to rely more on by-products such as straw. The method of animal production can be classified by the major portion of feed. One is animal forage and the other is grains. In Korea , livestock farmers normally depend more than 70% upon grains for the feed stuff. The livestock production system causes the unbalance of nutrition, and results in low productivity of animal farming. In many livestock farms in Korea the rice straw is using as a major forage and the amount of rice straw fed takes 46% of total amount of required forages. Especially the rice straw is mainly using during spring, fall and winte season. However, there are still lots of problems to solved such as harvesting cost, transportation between rice farm ad livestock farm, and quality loss during drying and storage . Therefore the mechanization of straw harvesting is urgently needed to use the renewable agricultural by-products and to overcome the shortage of animal forage. The objective of this research is to develope a straw harvester with new concept which can solve the problems of the quality loss and the labor cost during drying in a field, collecting , and storage. The developed straw harvester is self-propelled machine rebuilt by rice combine and equipped with the pick-up device, the macerater and the mat-forming device.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2013

Our research brings managerial insights for developing new digital convergence of devices and services. To explain the phenomenon of device and service convergence, we combine two different approaches from separate research fields: a perceptual mapping technique generally used for segmentation in marketing and associative network analysis mobilized to understanding network structure of core and peripheral as well as the information mediating role of nodes in network science. By combining these two approaches, we provide an in-depth analysis of the associations among devices and services by assessing the centrality of device and service nodes in an associative network. This is done by examining the connections between these services and devices as well as investigating the role of mediation in the combined device-service associative network. Our results based on bi-partite network analysis of survey responses from 250 Internet Protocol (IP) television viewers show which device and which service will play the major role in future device and service convergence as well as which characteristics and functionalities have to be incorporated into future convergence. Among the devices, the mobile handset with the betweenness centrality of 0.26 appears to be the device that would lead future device convergence. Among the services, wireless broadband with the betweenness centrality of 0.276 appears to be the service on which future service convergence needs to be developed. This result is quite unexpected, since wireless broadband has a lower penetration rate than other services, such as fixed broadband and cable TV. In addition, we indicate the possibility of converging devices, such as personal digital assistant (PDA) and mobile handset, and services, such as IPTV and mobile Internet, into wireless broadband services in the future.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.331-335
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• 2005

The fusion technology of small sensor and wireless communication was followed by various application examples of the embedded system, where the social infrastructural facilities and ecological environment were wirelessly monitored. In addition, this technology represents the primary application area being extended into the healthcare field. In this study, a body area network for ubiquitous healthcare is presented. More specifically this represents a wireless biomedical signal acquisition device characterized by small size, low power consumption, pre-processing and archiving capability. Using this device, a new method for monitoring vital signs and activity is created. A PDA-based wireless sensor network enables patients to be monitored during their daily living, without any constraints. Therefore, the proposed method can be used to develop Activities of Daily Living (ADL) monitoring devices for the elderly or movement impaired people. A medical center would be able to remotely monitor the current state of elderly people and support first-aid in emergency cases. In addition, this method will reduce medical costs in society, where the average life expectancy is increasing.