• 센서학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2010

In this study, wearable ECG measurement system was implemented for health monitoring during daily life. A wearable belt-type ECG electrode worn around the chest by measuring the real-time ECG is produced in order to minimize the inconvenience in wearing. The measured ECG signal is transmitted via an ultra low power consumption wireless data communications unit to personal computer using Zigbee-compatible wireless sensor node. The ECG monitoring program is developed at end user which is personal computer. The measured ECG contains many noises mainly due to motion artifacts. For ECG signal processing, adaptive filtering process is proposed which can reduce motion artifacts efficiently and accurately than digital filter. The experimental results show that a reliable performance with high quality ECG signal can be achieved using this wearable ECG monitoring system.

• 센서학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.382-387
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• 2011

Whether a person is feeling sleepy or reasonably awake is important safety information in many areas, such as humans operating in traffic or in heavy industry. The changes of body signals have been mostly researched by looking at electroencephalogram(EEG) signals but more and more other medical signals are being examined. In our study, an electrocardiogram(ECG) signal is measured at a sampling rate of 100 Hz and used to try to distinguish the possible differences in signal between the two states: awake and drowsy. Practical tests are conducted using a wireless sensor node connected to a wearable ECG sensor, and an ECG signal is transmitted wirelessly to a base station connected to a server PC. Through the QRS complex in the ECG analysis it is possible to obtain much information that is helpful for diagnosing different types of cardiovascular disease. A program is made with MATLAB for digital signal filtering and graphing as well as recognizing the parts of the QRS complex within the signal. Drowsiness detection is performed by evaluating the R peaks, R-R interval, interval between R and S peaks and the duration of the QRS complex..

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.1109-1115
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• 2008

In the ubiquitous health monitoring environments, it is quite important not only to evaluate the physiological health condition but also mental stress condition. In order to achieve this goal, a heart activity monitoring system utilizing a wearable bipolar electrode is devised and the heart rate variability(HRV) is extracted and interpreted in both frequency and time feature domains. Consequently, to evaluate the emotional stress condition of the subjects, a stress-induced experimental protocol was applied to healthy subjects and the time and frequency features of heart activity were analyzed in terms of the ratio of low frequency components v.s., high frequency components and the relevant the moving average distributions compromising the successive RR peaks intervals in the ambulatory ECG measurement system.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.16-19
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• 2015

A wearable sensing ECG T-shirt for ubiquitous vital signs sensing is proposed. The sensor system consists of a signal processing board and capacitive sensing electrodes which together enable measurement of an electrocardiogram (ECG) on the human chest with minimal discomfort. The capacitive sensing method was employed to prevent direct ECG measurement on the skin and also to provide maximum convenience to the user. Also, low power integrated circuits (ICs) and passive electrodes were employed in this research to reduce the power consumption of the entire system. Small flexible electrodes were placed into cotton pockets and affixed to the interior of a worn tight NIKE Pro combat T-shirt. Appropriate signal conditioning and processing were implemented to remove motion artifacts. The entire system was portable and consumed low power compared to conventional ECG devices. The ECG signal obtained from a 24 yr. old male was comparable to that of an ECG simulator.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.1102-1108
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• 2008

Wearable physiological signal monitoring systems are regarded as an important sensing unit platforms in ubiquitous/mobile healthcare application. In this paper, we suggested the modified bipolar electrodes implemented on the portable heart activity monitoring system, which minimized the distance of electrodes formed on a attachable pad. The proposed electrode configuration is useful in mobile measurement environments, but has a disadvantage of reduced amplitude of the heart action potential. In order to overcome the shortcoming of the suggested electrode configuration, we implemented the amplifying circuit to increase the signal-gain and decrease the artifacts. For evaluations, we analyzed the specificity of measured cardiography using the proposed electrodes through the comparing of heart activity monitoring system with standard clinical ECG(lead2) by pearson correlation coefficients. The result showed that the average correlation coefficient is $0.903{\pm}0.036,\;0.873{\pm}0.072$ at V3, V4 chest lead position, respectively. Thus, the modified bipolar electrode is quite suitable to monitor the electrical activity of the heart in the situation of the mobile environment, and could be considered having high similarity with standard clinical ECG.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.702-712
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• 2016

A wrist watch type wearable cardiovascular monitoring device is proposed for continuous and convenient monitoring of the patient's cardiovascular system. For comprehensive monitoring of the patient's cardiovascular system, the concurrent electrocardiogram (ECG) and arterial pulse wave (APW) sensor front-end are fabricated in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The ECG sensor frontend achieves 84.6-dB CMRR and $2.3-{\mu}Vrms$-input referred noise with $30-{\mu}W$ power consumption. The APW sensor front-end achieves $3.2-V/{\Omega}$ sensitivity with accurate bio-impedance measurement lesser than 1% error, consuming only $984-{\mu}W$. The ECG and APW sensor front-end is combined with power management unit, micro controller unit (MCU), display and Bluetooth transceiver so that concurrently measured ECG and APW can be transmitted into smartphone, showing patient's cardiovascular state in real time. In order to verify operation of the cardiovascular monitoring system, cardiovascular indicator is extracted from the healthy volunteer. As a result, 5.74 m/second-pulse wave velocity (PWV), 79.1 beats/minute-heart rate (HR) and positive slope of b-d peak-accelerated arterial pulse wave (AAPW) are achieved, showing the volunteer's healthy cardiovascular state.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.203-210
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• 2014

Wearable medical device has been a resurgence of interest thanks to the development of technology and propagation of smart phone in recent years. Various types of wearable devices have been introduced and available in market. Capacitive coupled electrode which measures electrocardiogram over cloth is able to be applied wearable device. In previous approaches of capacitive electrode, they need proper pressure for stable contact of the electrode to body surface. However, wearable device that gives pressure on body surface is not suitable for long-term monitoring. In this study, we proposed adhesive polyurethane-based capacitive electrode for patch-type wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring device. Self-adhesive polyurethane make the electrode and whole system be adhered to the surface of skin without any pressure. The patch-type system is consisted of analog filter, analog-to-digital converter and wireless transmission module and designed to be attached on the body as a patch. To validate the feasibility of the developed system, we measured ECG signal in stable and active state and extracted heart rate. Therefore, we observed skin response after long-term attachment for biocompatibility of the adhesive polyurethane and adhesive strength of it. The result shows the possibility of applying the developed system for ECG monitoring in real-life.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2019

IoT 기반의 스마트홈, 핀테크 등의 모바일 기술이 발달하면서 스마트 디바이스를 이용한 사용자 인증이 일상생활에서 널리 사용되고 있다. 이에 따라 기존의 비밀번호와 같은 지식 기반의 인증 방법에서 스마트 디바이스를 이용한 존재 기반의 생체인증이 새로운 주류가 되었고, 맥파, 지문, 얼굴, 홍채 등 다양한 생체인증 중에 신체적 특성상 위변조 가능성이 낮고 고유한 특징으로 개인 식별성이 높은 ECG(Electrocardiogram, 이하 ECG)를 이용한 생체인증이 헬스케어 및 핀테크와 맞물려 높은 관심을 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 고가이면서 부피가 커 휴대가 불가능한 ECG 측정디바이스가 아닌 소형화된 웨어러블 디바이스를 이용하여 손쉽게 사용자의 ECG 파형을 측정해 사용자 인증을 할 수 있는 ECG 인증 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현된 ECG 인증 시스템은 PQRST 고유 값 식별을 통해 ECG 특징점을 판별하고 이를 이용한 제안된 인증 프로토콜로 사용자 인증이 가능하였다. 최종적으로 성인 남성 다수를 통한 측정 평가를 통해 안정적인 정지 상태에서는 1.73%의 비교적 낮은 타인수락률과 4.14%의 본인거부율을 보였고 움직임이 있는 상태에서는 13.72%의 타인수락률과 21.68%의 높은 본인거부율을 보였다. 활동으로 인해 심박수가 상승한 정지 상태에서는 10.48%의 타인수락률과 11.21%의 본인거부율을 보였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1469-1476
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• 2022

최근 심전도 (ECG) 및 광전용맥파 (PPG) 신호를 사용하여 혈압을 추정하는 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 1차원 합성곱 신경망을 사용하여 실시간으로 혈압을 추정하고 모니터링 할 수 있는 모바일 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 제안하는 신경망 알고리즘은 ECG 및 PPG 신호의 다양한 특징을 세밀하게 추출하도록 11개의 계층으로 구성하고 매개변수를 최적화하도록 설계되었다. 모의실험 결과는 학습한 신경망의 합성곱 커널의 개수가 많을수록 ECG 및 PPG 신호의 특성을 더 잘 나타내기 때문에 선형 회귀 모델보다 평균 제곱 오차가 적어져 더 좋은 성능을 나타내는 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구에서 개발된 모바일 시스템은 몸에 부착된 ECG 및 PPG 센서 장치로부터 블루투스 통신으로 전송된 측정 신호를 입력받고 실시간으로 학습된 모델로 수축기 및 이완기 혈압 수치를 추정하고 그래프로 표시하게 된다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.358-359
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 범용적인 건강 모니터링에 활용할 수 있는 생체신호인 심전도를 일반 가정 내에서 뿐만 아니라 일상생활 중에서도 실시간으로 편리하게 측정할 수 있도록 초소형 저전력의 착용형 심전도 계측시스템을 구현하였다. 이를 위하여 표준 12-lead법이 아닌 모바일 또는 휴대용 장치에 적합한 2-lead법을 사용하여 심전도 계측부를 구현하였고, 심전도 계측부를 베이스 노드로 하여 심전도 신호를 가정 내 또는 실외에서도 무선으로 전송 할 수 있도록 구현하였다. 먼저 가정 내에서는 저 전력 무선센서노드를 이용하여 심전도 신호를 실시간으로 PC에 전송하여 모니터링이 가능하도록 구현 하였고, 실외에서는 저전력 통신 방식인 Bluetooth 2.0을 사용하여 스마트폰으로 심전도 신호를 실시간으로 전송해 모니터링 할 수 있도록 구현하였다.