• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.46-54
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 연속 가압방식으로 측정된 맥파 신호의 분석에 적합한 시작점 검출 알고리즘을 제안한다. 연속 가압방식은 가압의 크기를 조금씩 증가시키면서 맥파 신호를 측정하는 방식인데 이를 이용하면 가압크기에 대응하는 맥파 신호의 분해능이 크게 향상되기 때문에 현재 상용맥진기의 맥파 측정방식인 단계별 가압방식의 정확성과 신뢰성 문제를 해결할 수 있다. 시작점 검출을 위해서 고속 푸리에 변환을 이용한 주기계산, Center-to-edges 방법의 피크 검출, 기저선 보정, 접선 교점 방법에 의한 시작점 검출, 분석 구간 설정을 순차적으로 적용한 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 30명의 피험자를 대상으로 실험한 결과 제안된 알고리즘의 정확도는 99.46%, 민감도는 99.51%로 나타났는데 이는 기존 알고리즘보다 정확도 4.82%, 민감도 2.46%가 향상된 결과이다. 본 연구에서 제안한 연속 가압방식의 맥파 측정방법과 맥파 시작점 검출 알고리즘을 사용한다면 맥파 특징점의 정확한 검출은 물론 허실맥이나 부침맥 등의 맥상 판별 정확성을 높일 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권12호
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• pp.2351-2357
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• 2008

Noninvasive radial artery pulse wave has been widely used not only for the pulse wave analysis(PWA) itself but also for assessment of arterial stiffness with estimated aortic pulse wave from peripheral pulse wave. However, it has been found that the deformation of pulse shape can be caused readily by changing measuring position, indentation pressure, and so on. So, in this study, we have developed a system which can measure radial pulse wave and skin displacement simultaneously while the indentation body goes down to occlude subject's radial artery. This system can be divided into a measuring apparatus part, an indentation control hardware part, a data acquisition part and a control and computation part. And, the measuring apparatus consists of an arm-rest, a step motor, an indentation body, a laser displacement sensor(LK-G30, Keyence Co.) and pulse wave sensor. Under load-free condition and radial artery loaded condition, the evaluation of developed system has been performed. From these results, we can conclude: 1) The developed system can control the indentation body quantitatively and the adopted laser displacement sensor shows linear output characteristic even with skin as a reflector. 2) This system can measure the pulse wave and the displacement of indentation body, that is, skin displacement simultaneously at each specific level of indentation body. 3) This system can provide the number of motor steps used to get down the indentation body, the measured skin displacement, the calculated indentation pressure, the calculated pulse pressure and the pulse waveform as well as the information generated by combining these with each others. 4) This system can reveal the relationship between the morphological changes of pulse wave and the estimated displacement of radial artery wall by indentation. Consequently, the developed system can furnish more abundant information on radial artery than previous diagnosis systems based on tonometric measurement. In further study, we expect to setup the standard measuring process and to concrete the algorithm for the estimation of radial artery's diameter and of displacement of radial artery's wall. Furthermore, with well designed clinical studies, we hope to turn out the usefulness of developed system in the field of cardiovascular system evaluation.