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The Intelligent Clinical Laboratory as a Tool to Increase Cancer Care Management Productivity

  • Mohammadzadeh, Niloofar;Safdari, Reza
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.2935-2937
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    • 2014
  • Studies of the causes of cancer, early detection, prevention or treatment need accurate, comprehensive, and timely cancer data. The clinical laboratory provides important cancer information needed for physicians which influence clinical decisions regarding treatment, diagnosis and patient monitoring. Poor communication between health care providers and clinical laboratory personnel can lead to medical errors and wrong decisions in providing cancer care. Because of the key impact of laboratory information on cancer diagnosis and treatment the quality of the tests, lab reports, and appropriate lab management are very important. A laboratory information management system (LIMS) can have an important role in diagnosis, fast and effective access to cancer data, decrease redundancy and costs, and facilitate the integration and collection of data from different types of instruments and systems. In spite of significant advantages LIMS is limited by factors such as problems in adaption to new instruments that may change existing work processes. Applications of intelligent software simultaneously with existing information systems, in addition to remove these restrictions, have important benefits including adding additional non-laboratory-generated information to the reports, facilitating decision making, and improving quality and productivity of cancer care services. Laboratory systems must have flexibility to change and have the capability to develop and benefit from intelligent devices. Intelligent laboratory information management systems need to benefit from informatics tools and latest technologies like open sources. The aim of this commentary is to survey application, opportunities and necessity of intelligent clinical laboratory as a tool to increase cancer care management productivity.

Study on the Transmission of Medical Information using Bluetooth Technology (블루투스를 이용한 의료정보 신호의 전송에 관한 연구)

  • 엄정규;김영길
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.520-523
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, a system that transmits ECG signals which get from hand baggage ECG is implemented by using Bluetooth technology. Bluetooth technology is a close range wireless communication used wireless frequency 2.4GHZ bandwidth. This technology consumes very small power and provides high reliability also self error correction with high speed frequency hopping. Because every device which uses Bluetooth protocol can communicate each other. These can connect between the system implemented and any devices such as mobile telephone with Bluetooth module, notebook, and the personal mobile device. Also, the paper proposes capability of transmission to the sever of hospital through each type of wireless communication device that acquired medical information signals in mobile medical machine. The system consists of hardware parts with Bluetooth module and host part, and software parts with bluetooth protocol stacks. The host precesses a connection with other device and transmits ECG signals with bluetooth frequency hopping sequence.

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Gateway design and performance evaluation based on health information standards in multi-platform environment (멀티플랫폼 환경에서 의료정보표준 기반 게이트웨이 설계 및 성능 평가)

  • Shim, Woo-Ho;Na, Hyun-Suk;Park, Seok-Cheon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.33-40
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    • 2012
  • Recently, to enhance the quality and efficiency of health care services, smart health care services utilizing a smart phone and tablet pc are mainly being introduced into the large hospital and the interest for personal health record service which manages personal medical information utilizing PC and smart phone and technology development is actively underway. In order to build a next generation hospital information systems, the interoperability of data between the different hospital information systems and UX consistency between the various user devices must be assured. Therefore, in this paper, medical information standard and the study for improving the performance is conducted to design the gateway system which converting and integrating the medical information under multi-platform environment. In this paper, CCR standard is adapted to the mapping method between the data which is the key feature of the gateway system and design the system utilizing multi-table-based mapping method. To evaluate the performance of the system, experiment was done and the result has been improved approximately 20 percent for response rate.

Study on the Transmission of Medical Information using Bluetooth Technology (블루투스를 이용한 의료정보 신호의 전송에 관한 연구)

  • 엄정규;김영길
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.297-301
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, a system that transmits ECG signals which get from hand baggage ECG is implemented by using Bluetooth technology. Bluetooth technology is a close range wireless communication used wireless frequency 2.4GHz bandwidth. This technology consumes very small power and provides high reliability also self error correction with high speed frequency hopping. Because every device which uses Bluetooth protocol can communicate each other. These can connect between the system implemented and any devices such as mobile telephone with Bluetooth module, notebook, and the personal mobile device. Also, the paper proposes capability of transmission to the sever of hospital through each type of wireless communication device that acquired medical information signals in mobile medical machine. The system consists of hardware parts with Bluetooth module and host part, and software parts with blutooth protocol stacks. The host precesses a connection with other device and transmits ECG signals with bluetooth frequency hopping sequence.

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Multimodality and Application Software (다중영상기기의 응용 소프트웨어)

  • Im, Ki-Chun
    • Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.153-163
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    • 2008
  • Medical imaging modalities to image either anatomical structure or functional processes have developed along somewhat independent paths. Functional images with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are playing an increasingly important role in the diagnosis and staging of malignant disease, image-guided therapy planning, and treatment monitoring. SPECT and PET complement the more conventional anatomic imaging modalities of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. When the functional imaging modality was combined with the anatomic imaging modality, the multimodality can help both identify and localize functional abnormalities. Combining PET with a high-resolution anatomical imaging modality such as CT can resolve the localization issue as long as the images from the two modalities are accurately coregistered. Software-based registration techniques have difficulty accounting for differences in patient positioning and involuntary movement of internal organs, often necessitating labor-intensive nonlinear mapping that may not converge to a satisfactory result. These challenges have recently been addressed by the introduction of the combined PET/CT scanner and SPECT/CT scanner, a hardware-oriented approach to image fusion. Combined PET/CT and SPECT/CT devices are playing an increasingly important role in the diagnosis and staging of human disease. The paper will review the development of multi modality instrumentations for clinical use from conception to present-day technology and the application software.

Picture archiving and communications systems development and performance results

  • Nam, Ji-Seung;Ralph Martinez
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1991.10b
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    • pp.1796-1800
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    • 1991
  • Picture Archiving and Communication Systems(PACS) provide an integration of digital imaging information in a hospital, which encompasses various imaging equipment, viewing workstations, database archive systems, and a high speed fiber optic network. One of the most important requirements for integration is the standardization of communication protocols to connect devices from different vendors. Since 1985, the ACR-NEMA standard provides a hardware interface, a set of software commands, and a consistent set of data formats for point-to-point interconnection of medical equipment. However, it has been shown to be inadequate for PACS networking environments, because of its point-to-point nature and its inflexibility to allow other services and protocols in the future. Based on previous experience of PACS developments in The University of Arizona, a new communication protocol for PACS networks has been suggested to the ACR-NEMA Working Group VI. The defined PACS protocol is intended to facilitate the development of PACS's capable of interfacing with other hospital information systems. Also, it is intended to allow the creation of diagnostic information data bases which can be interrogated by a variety of distributed devices. A particularly important goal is to support communications in a multivendor environment. The new protocol specifications are defined primarily as a combination of the International Organization for Standardization / Open Systems Interconnection (ISO/OSI) protocols and the data format portion of ACR-NEMA standard. This paper addresses the specification and implementation of the proposed PACS protocol into network node. The protocol specification, which covers Presentation, Session, Transport, and Network layers, is summarized briefly. The implementation has natural extentions to Global PACS environments. The protocol implementation is discussed based on our implementation efforts in the UNIX Operating System Environment. At the same time, results of performance evaluation are presented to demonstrate the implementation of defined protocol. The testing of performance analysis is performed on the PACS prototype node.

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A Implementation of Smart Band and Data Monitoring System available of Measuring Skin Moisture and UV based on ICT (ICT기반의 피부 수분 및 자외선 측정이 가능한 스마트 밴드 및 데이터 모니터링 시스템 구현)

  • Jung, Se-Hoon;Sim, Chun-Bo;You, Kang-Soo;So, Won-Ho
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.715-724
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    • 2017
  • Today all kinds of smart devices are being developed with various researches on wearable devices that support smart computing on the human body. Skin diseases continue to rise including freckles, pimples, atopy, and scalp trouble due to the environmental and genetic factors, and people pay bigger medical bills to treat their skin diseases. There is thus a need to develop a smart-phone or table-based smart healthcare imaging system of high portability and diagnostic accuracy capable of analyzing and managing various skin problems related to skin care. This study proposed an integrated system combining the Smart Mi Band, a wearable device using moisture and UV sensors based on IoT, on the hardware part with the sensor information monitoring software.

Design and Implementation of User Standing Posture Recognition-Based Interaction System Using Multi-Channel Large Area Pressure Sensors

  • Park, HyungSoo;Kim, HoonKi;Kwak, Jaekyung
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.155-162
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    • 2020
  • Among the fourth industrial revolution technologies, products related to healthcare using IoT and sensors are currently being developed. We design and develop an interaction system based on user standing posture recognition using multi-channel large area pressure sensors in this paper. To this end, first of all we investigate major sensor markets of the sensor industry and review technology trends and the current and future of smart healthcare. Based on this survey, we examine and compare cases developed at home and abroad for multi-channel large-area pressure sensors, which are key components of the system that we want to develop. We recognize the standing posture status of the user through the developed system and experiment with how effective it is actually in user posture calibration and apply the research results to various healthcare devices' medical fields based on this.

Determination of Flow Rate and Stability of 5-Fluorouracil in Disposal Infusion Device, $Anapa^{(R)}$ (일회용 약물 주입기구를 이용한 5-Fluorouracil의 지속주입효과와 용기 내 안정성 평가)

  • Kim, Jung-Tae;Chung, Sung-Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.65-68
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    • 2009
  • Disposal infusion device is known to be useful for chemotherapy. Anti-cancer drug can be released by the force of carbon dioxide or balloon. In this study, we compared the$Anapa^{(R)}$ (LC0020) with B Company (LV2 ml) in terms of infusion rate and stability. Infusion rate was determined every six minute using software, MSI08IH. Stability of 5-fluorouracil was examined periodically using a High Performance Liquid Chromatography. Infusion rates of gas-derived $Anapa^{(R)}$ device were 2.29, 1.86, 1.98 ml/hr and those of balloon-derived B Company device were 1.71, 1.58, 1.37 ml/min. There were no significant differences in stability of 5-fluorouracil between $Anapa^{(R)}$ and B Company devices. In summary, gas-derived $Anapa^{(R)}$ device is thought to be comparable or superior to balloon-derived B Company device as far as infusion rate and stability are concerned. We expect that $Anapa^{(R)}$ as a home infusion device can be employed to improve a quality of life and compliance of cancer patients.

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Efficient Stack Smashing Attack Detection Method Using DSLR (DSLR을 이용한 효율적인 스택스매싱 공격탐지 방법)

  • Do Yeong Hwang;Dong-Young Yoo
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.12 no.9
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    • pp.283-290
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    • 2023
  • With the recent steady development of IoT technology, it is widely used in medical systems and smart TV watches. 66% of software development is developed through language C, which is vulnerable to memory attacks, and acts as a threat to IoT devices using language C. A stack-smashing overflow attack inserts a value larger than the user-defined buffer size, overwriting the area where the return address is stored, preventing the program from operating normally. IoT devices with low memory capacity are vulnerable to stack smashing overflow attacks. In addition, if the existing vaccine program is applied as it is, the IoT device will not operate normally. In order to defend against stack smashing overflow attacks on IoT devices, we used canaries among several detection methods to set conditions with random values, checksum, and DSLR (random storage locations), respectively. Two canaries were placed within the buffer, one in front of the return address, which is the end of the buffer, and the other was stored in a random location in-buffer. This makes it difficult for an attacker to guess the location of a canary stored in a fixed location by storing the canary in a random location because it is easy for an attacker to predict its location. After executing the detection program, after a stack smashing overflow attack occurs, if each condition is satisfied, the program is terminated. The set conditions were combined to create a number of eight cases and tested. Through this, it was found that it is more efficient to use a detection method using DSLR than a detection method using multiple conditions for IoT devices.