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Genotypic Identification of Cystoisospora in Immunocompromised Patients Using Tm-Variation Analysis

  • Basyoni, Maha M.A.;Elghobary, Hany Ahmed Fouad
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • 제55권6호
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    • pp.601-606
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    • 2017
  • Cystoisospora is responsible for morbidity in immunocompromised patients. PCR is sensitive for diagnosing Cystoisospora; however, it needs reevaluation for differential molecular diagnosis of cystoisosporiasis. We aimed at evaluating melting curve analysis (MCA) after real-time PCR (qPCR) in diagnosis and genotyping of Cystoisospora as an alternative to conventional PCR. We included 293 diarrheic stool samples of patients attending the Department of Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine of Cairo University Hospitals, Egypt. Samples were subjected to microscopy, nested PCR (nPCR), and qPCR targeting the internal transcribed spacer 2 region (ITS2) of the ribosomal RNA (r RNA) gene followed by melting temperatures ($T_ms$) analysis and comparing the results to PCR-RFLP banding patterns. Using microscopy and ITS2-nPCR, 3.1% and 5.8% of cases were Cystoisospora positive, respectively, while 10.9% were positive using qPCR. Genotyping of Cystoisospora by qPCR-MCA revealed 2 genotypes. These genotypes matched with 2 distinct melting peaks with specified $T_ms$ at $85.8^{\circ}C$ and $88.6^{\circ}C$, which indicated genetic variation among Cystoisospora isolates in Egypt. Genotype II proved to be more prevalent (65.6%). HIV-related Kaposi sarcoma and leukemic patients harbored both genotypes with a tendency to genotype II. Genotype I was more prevalent in lymphomas and mammary gland tumors while colorectal and hepatocellular tumors harbored genotype II suggesting that this genotype might be responsible for the development of cystoisosporiasis in immunocompromised patients. Direct reliable identification and differentiation of Cystoisospora species could be established using $qPCR-T_ms$ analysis which is useful for rapid detection and screening of Cystoisospora genotypes principally in high risk groups.

ICT 기반 가축 감염병 대응을 위한 커뮤니티 매핑 연구 (A Study on Community Mapping for ICT-Based Livestock Infectious Disease Response)

  • 구지희;편무욱
    • 한국측량학회지
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    • 제38권3호
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    • pp.247-257
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    • 2020
  • 구제역과 같은 가축 전염병은 강한 전염력으로 인해 막대한 경제적 손실을 초래하고 있다. 가축의 전염성 질병은 조기 감지가 매우 중요하나, 개별 농가에서 조기 진단이 어렵고, 수의사나 사료 공급 차량 등의 농장간 이동을 통해서 전파되는 사례도 빈번하다. 본 연구에서는 발병 초기단계에서 유비쿼터스 기반의 정보통신기술을 이용하여 가축의 체온을 자동으로 모니터링 하여 실시간 전송함으로써 수의사의 농장방문 없이 빠른 진단이 가능하고 추가 확산을 방지하는 기술을 연구하였다. 자동으로 수집된 정보와 연계된 원격진료시스템을 활용하여 농장단위, 지역단위, 국가단위에서 가축전염병을 커뮤니티 매핑 기법을 이용하여 체계적으로 관리하는 기술을 제시하였다. 이 과정에서 사용자 참여형 공간정보기술 적용을 위한 각 단계별, 주체별 커뮤니티 매핑 항목을 도출하였다.

원격 치매 조기 진단 시스템 설계 (Design of Remote Early Dementia Diagnosis Systems)

  • 최종명;전경숙;김선경;최정민;류동영;윤숙
    • 사물인터넷융복합논문지
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    • 제6권4호
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2020
  • 인구 고령화에 따라 치매환자가 크게 늘어나고 있으며, 이에 따른 사회 경제적 부담이 커지고 있다. 현재 치매환자를 효과적으로 관리하는 방법은 조기에 치매 초기 환자를 파악하는 것이다. 그러나 의료진이 부족한 농촌과 섬 지역에서는 병원을 방문해서 조기 검사를 받기 어려운 문제가 있다. 이 문제를 해결하는 방법으로 본 논문에서는 원격 치매 조기 검사 시스템을 제안한다. 원격 치매 조기 검사 시스템은 환자가 실시간 화상 통신을 기반으로 한 원격 의료 기술을 활용하여 원격의 치매 전문가에게 검사 및 진료를 받을 수 있는 시스템이다. 치매 원격 조기 검진 시스템은 섬 지역의 보건지소 의료진이 사용하는 로컬 클라이언트 시스템, 영상을 전송 및 저장/관리하는 화상 서버, 원격 치매 전문가가 활용하는 전문가 클라이언트로 구성된다. 로컬 클라이언트는 환자가 보건지소의 의료진과 같이 사용할 수 있도록 함으로써 현 의료법의 원격협진 기준을 만족시킨다. 또한 전문가 클라이언트는 치매 전문가가 사용하며, 환자의 정보를 저장/관리하고, 환자의 이력 정보를 분석하고 향후 치매 진행 정도를 예측할 수 있다.

Design of Fault Diagnostic and Fault Tolerant System for Induction Motors with Redundant Controller Area Network

  • 홍원표;윤충섭;김동화
    • 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국조명전기설비학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.371-374
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    • 2004
  • Induction motors are a critical component of many industrial processes and are frequently integrated in commercially available equipment. Safety, reliability, efficiency, and performance are some of the major concerns of induction motor applications. Preventive maintenance of induction motors has been a topic great interest to industry because of their wide range application of industry. Since the use of mechanical sensors, such as vibration probes, strain gauges, and accelerometers is often impractical, the motor current signature analysis (MACA) techniques have gained murk popularity as diagnostic tool. Fault tolerant control (FTC) strives to make the system stable and retain acceptable performance under the system faults. All present FTC method can be classified into two groups. The first group is based on fault detection and diagnostics (FDD). The second group is independent of FDD and includes methods such as integrity control, reliable stabilization and simultaneous stabilization. This paper presents the fundamental FDD-based FTC methods, which are capable of on-line detection and diagnose of the induction motors. Therefore, our group has developed the embedded distributed fault tolerant and fault diagnosis system for industrial motor. This paper presents its architecture. These mechanisms are based on two 32-bit DSPs and each TMS320F2407 DSP module is checking stator current, voltage, temperatures, vibration and speed of the motor. The DSPs share information from each sensor or DSP through DPRAM with hardware implemented semaphore. And it communicates the motor status through field bus (CAN, RS485). From the designed system, we get primitive sensors data for the case of normal condition and two abnormal conditions of 3 phase induction motor control system is implemented. This paper is the first step to drive multi-motors with serial communication which can satisfy the real time operation using CAN protocol.

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Noninvasive fetal RHD genotyping using cell-free fetal DNA incorporating fetal RASSF1A marker in RhD-negative pregnant women in Korea

  • Han, Sung-Hee;Yang, Young-Ho;Ryu, Jae-Song;Kim, Young-Jin;Lee, Kyoung-Ryul
    • Journal of Genetic Medicine
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    • 제12권2호
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    • pp.100-108
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: Conventional methods for the prenatal detection of fetal RhD status involve invasive procedures such as fetal blood sampling and amniocentesis. The identification of cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) in maternal plasma creates the possibility of determining fetal RhD status by analyzing maternal plasma DNA. However, some technical problems still exist, especially the lack of a positive control marker for the presence of fetal DNA. Therefore, we assessed the feasibility and accuracy of fetal RHD genotyping incorporating the RASSF1A epigenetic fetal DNA marker from cffDNA in the maternal plasma of RhD-negative pregnant women in Korea. Materials and Methods: We analyzed maternal plasma from 41 pregnant women identified as RhD-negative by serological testing. Multiplex real-time PCR was performed by amplifying RHD exons 5 and 7 and the SRY gene, with RASSF1A being used as a gender-independent fetal epigenetic marker. The results were compared with those obtained by postnatal serological analysis of cord blood and gender identification. Results: Among the 41 fetuses, 37 were RhD-positive and 4 were RhD-negative according to the serological analysis of cord blood. There was 100% concordance between fetal RHD genotyping and serological cord blood results. Detection of the RASSF1A gene verified the presence of cffDNA, and the fetal SRY status was correctly detected in all 41 cases. Conclusion: Noninvasive fetal RHD genotyping with cffDNA incorporating RASSF1A is a feasible, reliable, and accurate method of determining fetal RhD status. It is an alternative to amniocentesis for the management of RhD-negative women and reduces the need for unnecessary RhIG prophylaxis.

Segmentation of Mammography Breast Images using Automatic Segmen Adversarial Network with Unet Neural Networks

  • Suriya Priyadharsini.M;J.G.R Sathiaseelan
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제23권12호
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    • pp.151-160
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    • 2023
  • Breast cancer is the most dangerous and deadly form of cancer. Initial detection of breast cancer can significantly improve treatment effectiveness. The second most common cancer among Indian women in rural areas. Early detection of symptoms and signs is the most important technique to effectively treat breast cancer, as it enhances the odds of receiving an earlier, more specialist care. As a result, it has the possible to significantly improve survival odds by delaying or entirely eliminating cancer. Mammography is a high-resolution radiography technique that is an important factor in avoiding and diagnosing cancer at an early stage. Automatic segmentation of the breast part using Mammography pictures can help reduce the area available for cancer search while also saving time and effort compared to manual segmentation. Autoencoder-like convolutional and deconvolutional neural networks (CN-DCNN) were utilised in previous studies to automatically segment the breast area in Mammography pictures. We present Automatic SegmenAN, a unique end-to-end adversarial neural network for the job of medical image segmentation, in this paper. Because image segmentation necessitates extensive, pixel-level labelling, a standard GAN's discriminator's single scalar real/fake output may be inefficient in providing steady and appropriate gradient feedback to the networks. Instead of utilising a fully convolutional neural network as the segmentor, we suggested a new adversarial critic network with a multi-scale L1 loss function to force the critic and segmentor to learn both global and local attributes that collect long- and short-range spatial relations among pixels. We demonstrate that an Automatic SegmenAN perspective is more up to date and reliable for segmentation tasks than the state-of-the-art U-net segmentation technique.

LMA와 FDTD를 이용한 유방암 진단용 알고리즘 연구 (Algorithm Study for Diagnosis the Breast Cancer Using LMA and FDTD)

  • 서민경;김태홍;문지연;전순익;백정기
    • 한국전자파학회논문지
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    • 제22권12호
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    • pp.1124-1131
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    • 2011
  • 본 논문에서는 MT(Microwave Tomography)를 사용한 유방암 진단용 영상 재구성 알고리즘에 관하여 연구하였다. 사용된 유방암 진단용 시스템은 16개의 송수신 안테나로 구성되어 있으며, 신호 파형은 900 MHz 정현파를 사용하였다. 2차원 역산란 문제를 풀기 위하여 포워드 계산 방법으로 2차원 시간 영역 유한 차분법과 최척화 알고리즘으로 LMA(Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm)를 이용하였다. 실제 유방암 환자의 MRI(Magnetic Resonance Imaging)로부터 얻은 수치 팬텀을 활용하여 영상 복원을 한 결과 유방암의 위치를 정확히 탐지함을 확인하였다.

적외선열화상을 이용한 베어링의 실시간 윤활상태에 따른 상태감시에 관한 연구 (Condition Monitoring under In-situ Lubrication Status of Bearing Using Infrared Thermography)

  • 김동연;홍동표;유청환;김원태
    • 비파괴검사학회지
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    • 제30권2호
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    • pp.121-125
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    • 2010
  • 회전기기의 결함진단에 있어서 기존의 방법과 달리 적외선열화상기술은 회전기기의 결함진단에 대해 비접촉, 비파괴 및 상태감시 모니터링을 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 적외선열화상 상태진단을 기반으로 하는 회전기기의 결함진단에 대한 새로운 접근법을 제안한다. 따라서 회전기에서 가장 많이 사용되어지는 볼베어링을 이용하여 실험을 수행하였고, 진동 스펙트럼 분석과 적외선열화상을 이용하여 실시간 모니터링을 수행하였다. 적외선열화상기법을 이용하여 볼베어링의 윤활 불균형에 따른 온도 특성을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 실험을 통한 결과를 분석 검토하여 향후 산업전반의 회전기기의 상태감시연구에 있어서 다양한 분야에 사용되어 질 것으로 예상된다.

Imprinted Graphene-Starch Nanocomposite Matrix-Anchored EQCM Platform for Highly Selective Sensing of Epinephrine

  • Srivastava, Juhi;Kushwaha, Archana;Singh, Meenakshi
    • Nano
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    • 제13권11호
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    • pp.1850131.1-1850131.19
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, an electrochemical sensor for epinephrine (EP), a neurotransmitter was developed by anchoring molecularly imprinted polymeric matrix (MIP) on the surface of gold-coated quartz crystal electrode of electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM) using starch nanoparticles (Starch NP) - reduced graphene oxide (RGO) nanocomposite as polymeric format for the first time. Use of EP in therapeutic treatment requires proper dose and route of administration. Proper follow-up of neurological disorders and timely diagnosis of them has been found to depend on EP level. The MIP sensor was developed by electrodeposition of starch NP-RGO composite on EQCM electrode in presence of template EP. As the imprinted sites are located on the surface, high specific surface area enables good accessibility and high binding affinity to template molecule. Differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) and piezoelectrogravimmetry were used for monitoring binding/release, rebinding of template to imprinted cavities. MIP-coated EQCM electrode were characterized by contact angle measurements, AFM images, piezoelectric responses including viscoelasticity of imprinted films, and other voltammetric measurements including direct (DPV) and indirect (using a redox probe) measurements. Selectivity was assessed by imprinting factor (IF) as high as 3.26 (DPV) and 3.88 (EQCM). Sensor was rigorously checked for selectivity in presence of other structurally close analogues, real matrix (blood plasma), reproducibility, repeatability, etc. Under optimized conditions, the EQCM-MIP sensor showed linear dynamic ranges ($1-10{\mu}M$). The limit of detection 40 ppb (DPV) and 290 ppb (EQCM) was achieved without any cross reactivity and matrix effect indicating high sensitivity and selectivity for EP. Hence, an eco-friendly MIP-sensor with high sensitivity and good selectivity was fabricated which could be applied in "real" matrices in a facile manner.

휴대용 단말 기반 의료용 무선 방사선 모니터링 시스템 개발 (Development of a Portable Device Based Wireless Medical Radiation Monitoring System)

  • 박혜민;홍현승;김정호;주관식
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제39권3호
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    • pp.150-158
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    • 2014
  • 각 의료기관 내 방사선 관련 종사자나 방사선 치료환자들은 진단 및 치료 시 필연적으로 의료상 피폭을 수반하게 된다. 국제방사선방호위원회(ICRP) 권고나 국제원자력기구(IAEA)의 기준에 따라 기준선량 제약치를 적용 및 권고 받고 있지만 1차 피폭대상자인 종사자나 환자들의 피폭최적관리를 위해서는 잠재적인 피폭대상자들에게 기존의 피폭관리 시스템보다 직접적이고 가용성이 높은 측정 및 분석 방법이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기존에 구비된 휴대용 단말과 연동하여 원거리에서 실시간으로 방사선 모니터링이 가능한 시스템을 개발하였다. 모니터링 시스템은 검출부, 영상부, 통신부 세 부분으로 구성되었다. 검출부는 시스템의 소형화를 위해 실리콘 광증배소자(silicon photomultiplier) 기반 섬광검출기를 설계하였으며, 영상부는 무선 CCD (charge-coupled device)카메라 모듈을 사용하여 검출부와 함께 Bluetooth 통신모듈을 통해 휴대용 단말로 측정된 방사선 정보와 영상이 전송된다. 제작된 시스템은 성능 평가를 위해 진단용 X-ray 발생장치와 $^{137}Cs$, $^{22}Na$, $^{60}Co$, $^{204}Tl$, $^{90}Sr$ 선원을 사용하였다. 측정결과를 통해 개발된 시스템은 gamma, beta, X-ray에 대해서 검출 반응성을 확인하였고, 방사선 세기에 따른 응답 선형성과 MCNPX 전산코드를 이용한 측정 거리에 따른 시스템의 검출 정확도 평가 시 3% 내외의 오차범위를 확인하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 방사선 검출 시스템 구성의 비용절감 효과와 개인피폭정도관리에 기여할 것으로 기대한다.