• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.6C
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• pp.815-823
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• 2004

A hue-based attention operator and a combinational integral projection function(CIPF) are proposed to extract the normalized regions of face and facial features robustly against illumination variation. The face candidate regions are efficiently detected by using skin color filter, and the eyes are located accurately nil robustly against illumination variation by applying the proposed hue- and symmetry-based attention operator to the face candidate regions. And the faces are confirmed by verifying the eyes with the color-based eye variance filter. The proposed CIPF, which combines the weighted hue and intensity, is applied to detect the accurate vertical locations of the eyebrows and the mouth under illumination variations and the existence of mustache. The global face and its local feature regions are exactly located and normalized based on these accurate geometrical information. Experimental results on the AR face database［8］ show that the proposed eye detection method yields better detection rate by about 39.3% than the conventional gray GST-based method. As a result, the normalized facial features can be extracted robustly and consistently based on the exact eye location under illumination variations.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.57 no.8
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• pp.357-362
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• 2014

Purpose: The incidence of Kawasaki disease (KD) is rare in young infants (less than 3 months of age), who present with only a few symptoms that fulfill the clinical diagnostic criteria. The diagnosis for KD can therefore be delayed, leading to a high risk of cardiac complications. We examined the clinical characteristics and measured the serum levels of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels of these patients for assessing its value in the early detection of KD. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the data of young infants diagnosed with KD from 2004 to 2012. The control group included 20 hospitalized febrile patients. Laboratory data, including NT-proBNP were obtained for each patient in both groups. Results: Incomplete KD was observed in 21/24 patients (87.5%). The mean fever duration on admission was $1.36{\pm}1.0$ days in the KD group. Common symptoms included erythema at the site of Bacille Calmette-Guerin inoculation (70.8%), skin rash (50.0%), changes of oropharyngeal mucosa (29.1%), and cervical lymphadenopathy (20.8%). The mean number of major diagnostic criteria fulfilled was $2.8{\pm}1.4$. Five KD patients (20.8%) had only one symptom matching these criteria. The incidence of coronary artery complications was 12.5%. The mean serum NT-proBNP level in the acute phase, in the KD and control groups, were $4,159{\pm}3,714pg/mL$ and $957{\pm}902pg/mL$, respectively, which decreased significantly in the convalescent phase. Conclusion: Incomplete KD was observed in 87.5% patients. Serum NT- proBNP might be a valuable biomarker for the early detection of KD in febrile infants aged <3 months.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.82-85
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• 2010

인터넷의 급속한 발달과 이미지 콘텐츠 개발 기술의 발달로 현재 누구나 쉽게 이미지 콘텐츠의 공유 및 배급이 용이해졌다. 그러나 이로 인해 누드나 포르노와 같은 불건전한 유해 이미지들의 접근 역시 쉬워지고 있다. 특히, 스마트 폰이나 스마트 TV 등 멀티미디어 기능이 가능한 휴대장치 및 단말기의 비약적인 발전으로 인하여, 언제 어디서나 우리들은 유해 이미지의 노출되어 있다. 따라서 유해 이미지 시청이 적당하지 않은 연령층까지 무방비 상태에 놓여 있기 때문에 이를 막을 수 있는 시급한 대책이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이중 피부 화소 검출에 이용하여 인체 영역 검출해내고 이것을 이용하여 유해 이미지 분류를 위한 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 일반적으로 피부 화소 검출 기법은 오차율을 가지고 있기 때문에 정확한 검출이 힘들다. 따라서 우리는 검출에 대한 강도를 조절하여 이중으로 피부 화소를 검출하여 좀더 정확한 피부 영역을 획득한다. 또한 기존의 방법들은 대체로 일차적인 피부 영역 검출에 초점을 둔 반면, 유해 판별의 주된 기준이 되는 가슴이나 성기, 엉덩이 등을 좀 더 중점적으로 찾으려 하지 않았다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 검출된 피부 영역에서 유해 부위를 좀 더 집중적으로 찾아 유해 판별 성능을 높이는 방법을 제안하고 실험으로 증명을 하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.288-294
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• 2016

This paper aims to compare the ability to detect notch defects existing in the plate and welded area using a flexible ECA (eddy current array) probe with OmniScan MX and MS-5800E. The characteristics of signals with various frequencies and lift-offs were also compared. As a result, when signals of frequencies 500, 1000, and 1500 kHz were used, the amplitude of the signal increased, as the depth of the notch increased, but reduced linearly in accordance with the lift-off variation. In addition, the detection sensitivity of the weld defect was found to be closely related to the contact surface of the probe and specimen. In this paper, it was demonstrated that the detection sensitivity was excellent when the contact surface of the probe and the specimen was sufficient, but it was poor when the contact surface was insufficient.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.497-501
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• 2010

Primary nasal type natural killer (NK)/T cell (NKTC) lymphoma, a specific form of malignant lymphoma, has a higher geographic incidence in Oriental, Mexican, and South American populations than the Western population. In Koreans, it comprises 9-12% of all cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This type of lymphoma has also been named as angiocentic lymphoma and lethal midline granuloma because the most common site is the upper airway area and its clinical aggressiveness presents with a necrotic and destructive pattern. NKTC lymphoma can also be detected in different organs (testis, spleen, parotid gland, skin, gastroinstinal tract, central nervous system, lungs, bone marrow, etc.) other than the upper airway including the oral cavity. The lymphoma detected in the oral cavity shows various destructive and inflammatory changes, similar to the signs of inflammation and infection from periodontitis and pulpal disease, making a diagnosis difficult with just the clinical signs. For early detection, clinical, radiological, and pathological examinations are required. This report describes the clinical, radiological and histological characteristics with a case report for the early detection of NKTC lymphoma in the oral cavity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06c
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• pp.332-335
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• 2007

이메일은 누구나 쉽게 정보를 교환할 수 있는 편리함 때문에 인터넷에서 가장 중요한 수단으로 사용되고 있다. 그러나 순수한 의사소통의 수단이 아닌 스팸메일의 범람은 성인뿐만 아니라, 어린이 청소년에게도 무차별적으로 전송됨으로써 심각한 부작용을 낳고 있다. 본 논문은 점차 지능화 되는 신 유형의 음란 스팸메일로부터 청소년을 보호하기 위하여 새로운 방법의 음란메일 차단시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 기존의 스팸메일 차단시스템은 사용자가 직접 음란한 메일이라고 판단되는 메일에 대해 일일이 키워드를 설정하거나, 메일 내용 중에 텍스트만을 추출하여 패턴 매칭방법으로 분류하는 것이 대부분이었지만, 본 논문은 기존 방법의 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 이미지 내 Skin-Color분포의 Human Detection 알고리즘과 웹 로봇 에이전트의 하이퍼링크 분석기법을 사용하였다. 성능 측정결과, 형태소 분석과 Human Detection 알고리즘을 병합하여 적용한 경우 성능 측정에서 90% 정도의 F-measure를 보였지만, 추가적으로 웹 로봇 에이전트의 하이퍼링크 분석기법을 병합하여 적용한 경우 97% 이상의 F-measure를 보이며, 신뢰성이 높은 음란스팸메일 차단 시스템을 구현할 수 있다는 것을 증명하였다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.204-210
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• 2015

Although many studies have analyzed the relationship between electrodermal activity (EDA) and sleep stages, a practical method for detecting sleep stage using EDA has not been suggested. The aim of this study was to develop an algorithm for real-time automatic detection of deep sleep using the EDA signal. Simultaneously with overnight polysomnography (PSG), continuous measurement of skin conductance on the fingers was performed for ten subjects. The morphometric characteristics in the fluctuations of EDA signal were employed to establish the quantitative criteria for determining deep sleep. The 30-sec epoch-by-epoch comparison between the deep sleep detected by our method and that reported from PSG exhibited an average sensitivity of 74.6%, an average specificity of 98.0%, and an average accuracy of 96.1%. This study may address the growing need for a reliable and simple measure for identifying sleep stage without a PSG.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.61 no.2
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• pp.43-48
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• 2018

Purpose: Human adenovirus infection mimics Kawasaki disease (KD) but can be detected in KD patients. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical differences between KD with adenovirus infection and only adenoviral infection and to identify biomarkers for prediction of adenovirus-positive KD from isolated adenoviral infection. Methods: A total of 147 patients with isolated adenovirus were identified by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. In addition, 11 patients having KD with adenovirus, who were treated with intravenous immunoglobulin therapy during the acute phase of KD were also evaluated. Results: Compared with the adenoviral infection group, the KD with adenovirus group was significantly associated with frequent lip and tongue changes, skin rash and changes in the extremities. In the laboratory parameters, higher C-reactive protein (CRP) level and presence of hypoalbuminemia and sterile pyuria were significantly associated with the KD group. In the multivariate analysis, lip and tongue changes (odds ratio [OR], 1.416; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.151-1.741; P=0.001), high CRP level (OR, 1.039; 95% CI 1.743-1.454; P= 0.021) and sterile pyuria (OR 1.052; 95% CI 0.861-1.286; P=0.041) were the significant predictive factors of KD. In addition, the cutoff CRP level related to KD with adenoviral detection was 56 mg/L, with a sensitivity of 81.8% and a specificity of 75.9%. Conclusion: Lip and tongue changes, higher serum CRP level and sterile pyuria were significantly correlated with adenovirus-positive KD.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.65-71
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• 2014

This paper present the multi-modal user distance estimation system using mono camera and mono microphone basically equipped with a mobile device. In case of a distance estimation method using an image, we is estimated a distance of the user through the skin color region extraction step, a noise removal step, the face and eyes region detection step. On the other hand, in case of a distance estimation method using speech, we calculates the absolute difference between the value of the sample of speech input. The largest peak value of the calculated difference value is selected and samples before and after the peak are specified as the ROI(Region of Interest). The samples specified perform FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) and calculate the magnitude of the frequency domain. Magnitude obtained is compared with the distance model to calculate the likelihood. We is estimated user distance by adding with weights in the sorted value. The result of an experiment using the multi-modal method shows more improved measurement value than that of single modality.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.241-246
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• 2008

Lichen planus is a common, chronic inflammatory disease of the skin and mucous membrane for which no precise causes have been confirmed. But it is often connected with infections. Helicobacter pylori(H. pylori) among various bacteria has been associated with the cause of gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. Considering the similarities of histological features between gastric ulcer and oral ulcers, it is resonable to assume that H. pylori might also be involved in the development oral mucosal ulceration. So we employed this study to investigate the possible involvement of H. pylori in the aetiology of erosive oral lichen planus. We analyzed detection rate of H. pylori in saliva of patients with erosive oral lichen planus by nested PCR. As a result, it revealed a significant difference statistically by showing positivity in 16 to 21(76.2%) saliva samples of patients group and in 11 of 44(25%) saliva samples of control group(P>0.001). We were able to suppose that H. pylori in saliva can be related to cause of erosive oral lichen planus.