• 대한두개안면성형외과학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.223-227
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• 2019

Background: Neurosensory changes are frequently observed in the patients with mid-face fractures, and these symptoms are often caused by infraorbital nerve (ION) damage. Although ION damage is a relatively common phenomenon, there are no established and objective methods to evaluate it. The aim of this study was to test whether trigeminal somatosensory evoked potential (TSEP) could be used as a prognostic predictor of ION damage and TSEP testing was an objective method to evaluate ION injury. Methods: In this prospective TSEP study, 48 patients with unilateral mid-face fracture (only unilateral blow out fracture and unilateral zygomaticomaxillary fracture were included) and potential ION damages were enrolled. Both sides of the face were examined with TSEP and the non-traumatized side of the face was used as control. We calculated the latency difference between the affected and the unaffected sides. Results: Twenty-four patients recovered within 3 months, and 21 patients took more than 3 months to recover. The average latency difference between the affected side and unaffected side was 1.4 and 4.1 ms for the group that recovered within 3 months and the group that recovered after 3 months, respectively. Conclusion: Patients who suffered ION damage showed prolonged latency when examined using the TSEP test. TSEP is an effective tool for evaluation of nerve injury and predicting the recovery of patients with ION damage.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2022

본 논문은 실생활 속 정제되지 않은 입력으로 인해 안면의 특징점을 추출하여 객체 인식 모델의 이상적인 성능과 속도를 보증해주지 못하는 문제점을 가중치 합산을 통한 저장 알고리즘을 통해 개선하는 방법을 소개한다. 많은 안면인식 프로세스들은 이상적인 상황에서의 정확도를 보장해주지만, 실생활에서 발생할 수 있는 수많은 방해요인에 대해서는 대처하지 못한다는 문제점이 주목받고 있으며 이는 곧 보안과 밀접하게 관련된 안면인식 프로세스에서 심각한 문제를 발생할 수도 있다. 본 논문에서는 사람의 고유한 특징점은 사진의 구도 등의 여러 변수가 있어도 결국 평균적인 하나의 형태를 띤다는 점을 이용하여 입력으로 추출된 특징점을 여러 방해 요인에 과적합 되어있지 않은 소수의 특징점과 비교를 통해 실시간으로 빠르게, 그리고 정확하게 안면인식을 할수 있는 방법을 가중치 합산방식을 통하여 제시한다.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.469-474
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• 2009

Purpose: A lower facial contouring surgery has become a commonly performed procedure in Asia. Currently, mandibular angle sagittal ostectomy and botulinum toxin type A treatment are main procedures for aesthetic correction of a broad lower face. There are a few date to show the differences in the mandibular contouring changes between mandibular angle splitting ostectomy and botulinum toxin type A treatment. Facial golden mask is easy to apply, inexpensive, and relatively objective for evaluation of facial contour analysis. This study was designed specifically to compare the changes in lower face width after two different forms of lower facial contouring procedure using facial golden mask. Methods: Seventeen patients, aged 18 to 55 years (mean, 28.6 years), 15 women and 2 men, consented to the study and receive a contouring procedure of lower face. The patients were classified in to 2 groups. In group A, the sample consisted of 10 patients with a prominent squared mandibular angle and mandibular angle splitting ostectomy was performed. In group B, the sample consisted of 7 patients with masseteric hypertrophy and botulinum toxin type A treatment was performed. Photographs of the face were taken to record the facial change at preoperative and postoperative. The postoperative photographs were taken to considered maximal effect at 2 years after surgery in group A and 4.8 months after treatment in group B. The authors applied the facial golden mask to preoperative and postoperative photographs and horizontal ratio, which compares facial width with golden mask width, were calculated. We made an analysis of the result of horizontal ratio using SPSS. Results: Overall average horizontal ratio of pre- and postoperative photos of group A were 1.24 and 1.11, whereas overall average horizontal ratio of pre- and postoperative photos of group B were 1.19 and 1.12. The horizontal ratio decreased 10.24% in group A and 5.93% in group B. There was a statistically significant change in before and after treatment, but there was no significant change in comparing the group A and group B. Conclusions: The result from this study suggest that mandibular angle sagittal ostectomy and botulinum toxin type A treatment showed relatively satisfactory clinical effects on lower facial contouring treatment. There was no statistical significant difference within two lower facial contouring treatment. Facial golden mask is easy to apply, inexpensive, and relatively objective, so we think that facial golden mask is a good method for evaluation of lower facial contouring treatment.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제31권
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• pp.22.1-22.7
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• 2016

Objectives This study analyzed the associations between mobile phone call frequency and duration with non-specific symptoms. Methods This study was conducted with a population group including 532 non-patient adults established by the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study. The pattern of phone call using a mobile phone was investigated through face-to-face interview. Structured methods applied to quantitatively assess health effects are Headache Impact Test-6 (HIT-6), Psychosocial Well-being Index-Short Form, Beck Depression Inventory, Korean-Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and 12-item Short Form Health Survey where a higher score represents a higher greater health effect. Results The average daily phone call frequency showed a significant correlation with the PSS score in female subjects. Increases in the average duration of one phone call were significantly correlated with increases in the severity of headaches in both sexes. The mean (standard deviation) HIT-6 score in the subgroup of subjects whose average duration of one phone call was five minutes or longer was 45.98 (8.15), as compared with 42.48 (7.20) in those whose average duration of one phone call was <5 minutes. The severity of headaches was divided into three levels according to the HIT-6 score (little or no impact/moderate impact/substantial or severe impact), and a logistic regression analysis was performed to investigate the association between an increased phone call duration and the headache severity. When the average duration of one phone call was five minutes or longer, the odds ratio (ORs) and the 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the moderate impact group were 2.22 and 1.18 to 4.19, respectively. The OR and 95% CI for the substantial or severe impact group were 4.44 and 2.11 to 8.90, respectively. Conclusions Mobile phone call duration was not significantly associated with stress, sleep, cognitive function, or depression, but was associated with the severity of headaches.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2006년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.143-146
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• 2006

Music is now digitally produced and distributed via internet and we face a huge amount of music day by day. A music summarization technology has been studied in order to help people concentrate on the most impressive section of the song andone can skim a song as listening the climax(chorus, refrain) only. Recent studies try to find the climax section using various methods such as finding diagonal line segment or kernel based segmentation. All these methods fail to capture the inherent structure of music due to polyphonic and noisy nature of music. In this paper, after applying moving average filter to time domain of MFCC/chroma feature, we achieved a remarkable result to capture the music structure.

• International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.40-43
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• 2015

A hybrid mesh based finite volume compressible flow code (PolySim) has been developed recently. Instead of the simple average method for the gradients of variables at each face, the volume average is applied for the calculation of the viscous flux. What is more, an improved Green Gauss method for the calculation of the gradient is also presented. These two techniques will improve both the accuracy and robustness of the code. The aerodynamic performance of this in-house cell centered code is examined by several widely-used bench-mark test cases. These cases include flows over flat plate and RAE 2822 etc. The comparisons on results between calculation and experiment are conducted. They show that the code can produce good numerical results which agree well with the corresponding experiment data.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권7호
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• pp.67-77
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 변형된 하우스더프 거리 (MDH: Modified Hausdorff Distance)를 이용한 눈 개폐 감지 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 얼굴 검출과 눈 개폐 감지로 크게 구분된다. 얼굴 영역의 검출을 위하여 고정 크기의 영역 내에서 픽셀 값을 이용하는 지역 구조특성의 MCT (Modified Census Transform)특징기반 방법을 사용하였다. 이후, 검출된 얼굴 영역 내에서 MHD를 이용하여 눈의 위치 및 개폐를 판단한다. 얼굴 검출의 처리절차는 먼저, 오프라인에서 다양한 얼굴 영상에 대해 MCT 이미지를 생성하고, 이를 기반으로 PCA를 이용하여 기준이 되는 특징벡터들을 추출한다. 다음으로, 온라인에서는 입력되는 실험 영상 내에서 새롭게 추출된 특징벡터들과 기준이 되는 특징 벡터들 간의 유클리드 거리를 이용하여 얼굴 영역을 검출하는 순서로 진행된다. 이후, 검출된 얼굴 영역 내에서 MHD 기반의 눈 영역 검출과 템플릿 매칭을 수행하여 눈의 개폐를 감지한다. 제안하는 방법의 성능 검증을 위하여 그레이 스케일 영상 (30FPS, $320{\times}180$)을 입력으로 실험을 수행한 결과, 눈 계폐 검출율에서 평균 94.04%의 정확도를 달성하였다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.349-361
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 깊이 정보만을 이용하여 얼굴을 고속으로 추적하는 방법을 제안하다. 그 방법으로는 템플릿 매칭 방법을 사용하며, 템플릿 매칭 방법의 문제점인 과다한 수행시간의 문제를 해결하여 고속으로 얼굴을 추적하기 위하여 조기종료 기법과 sparse 탐색 기법을 적용하고, 그에 따른 추적오류를 보정하고자 주변 화소들을 대상으로 매칭보정을 수행한다. 얼굴의 움직임에 따른 깊이의 변화를 보정하기 위해 추적할 얼굴의 깊이 값을 추정하고 그 결과에 따라 템플릿의 크기를 조정한다. 또한 조정된 템플릿의 크기에 따라 템플릿 매칭을 수행할 탐색영역을 조정한다. 자체 제작한 테스트 시퀀스들을 사용하여 추적에 필요한 파리미터들을 결정하였으며, 또 다른 자체 제작한 테스트 시퀀스들과 MPEG에서 제공한 다시점 테스트 시퀀스를 제안한 방법에 적용하는 실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과 Kinect을 이용하여 자체제작($640{\times}480$) 시퀀스에서는 약 3%의 추적오류와 2.45ms의 수행시간을 보였으며, Lovebird1($1024{\times}768$) 시퀀스에서는 약 1%의 추적 오류와 7.46ms의 수행시간을 보였다.

• 약학회지
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• 제59권6호
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• pp.270-277
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• 2015

There is a lack of evidence on the impact of pharmacist interventions in diabetes care in South Korea. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of pharmacist counseling on clinical and humanistic outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes. An uncontrolled before-and-after study was conducted at the outpatient diabetes clinic in a teaching hospital in Gyeongnam, South Korea between January 2 and November 30, 2014. A total of 37 patients were enrolled. During the study periods, the participants and pharmacists met every 2 weeks via follow-up telephone calls in addition to face-to-face meetings upon returning for care visit. At each meeting, a structured patient counseling was performed and the average duration of each meeting was 15~30 minutes. The participants were requested to record daily self-care activities. At the end of this study, patients' satisfaction on pharmacist care was evaluated using the questionnaire developed by us. Compared to baseline, significant reductions (mean${\pm}$standard deviation, p<0.05) in HbA1c were observed at each follow-up period: $-0.32{\pm}0.72%$ from baseline to 3 months; $-0.52{\pm}0.76%$ from baseline to 6 months; $-0.72{\pm}0.76%$ from baseline to 9 months. Over the same follow-up period, the proportions of patients achieving target HbA1c (defined as HbA1c<6.5%) were 3.1%, 10.3%, and 20%, respectively. The proportions of patients who never missed a dose during the same follow-up period were 43.8%, 31.0%, and 20.0%, respectively. The results from the patient satisfaction survey indicated that pharmacist counseling improved patients' knowledge about diabetes and possible drug interactions. Especially, the information on a healthy diet and lifestyle was the most satisfying. To conclude, follow-up telephone calls combined with face-to-face meetings improved clinical and humanistic outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

• 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.228-236
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• 2009

Objectives : Acne, one of the most common disorders in dermatology clinic, is a chronic inflammatory disease which has the symptoms of comedones, papules, pustules, cysts, nodules and scars mainly on the face. Although some of pathologic findings are suggested, but the exact causes and mechanisms are not yet known in Western Medicine. Hwangryeonhaedok-Tang(HRHDT) is an antiinflammatory, antipyretic and detoxifying herb decoction. In this report, we would like to share our experience of acne treatment with HRHDT. Methods : We had treated several patients with acne, facial flushing and uprising febrile sensation on face using oral administration and external application of HRHDT. HRHDT is basically made up with Scutellariae Radix, Coptidis Rhizoma, Phellodendri Cortex and Gardeniae Fructus. In this trial, several other herbs were added according to the individual patient's accompanying symptoms. After the decoction of herbs in amount for 10 days, $Yogourmet^{(R)}$ Kefir Starter 10 g was added to the herbal solution that was then fermented in an incubator at $25^{\circ}C$ for 72 hours, and divided into 30 doses. Results : Photographies were taken before and after the treatment. The severities of acne were evaluated with these photos according to the Korean Acne Grading System(KAGS). As results, we observed dramatic clinical improvements and the decreases of KAGS grades after the average treatment period of 8 weeks. The medication was orally administered 3 times a day and the external treatment was applied average twice a week during the whole treatment period. Conclusions : From these results, HRHDT may be considered as a good prescription for the febrile and toxic type of acne patients.