• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.19-32
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• 2023

The fragmentation of habitats resulting from human activities leads to the isolation of wildlife and it also causes wildlife-vehicle collisions (i.e. Road-kill). In that sense, it is important to predict potential habitats of specific wildlife that causes wildlife-vehicle collisions by considering geographic, environmental and transportation variables. Road-kill, especially by large mammals, threatens human safety as well as financial losses. Therefore, we conducted this study on roe deer (Capreolus pygargus tianschanicus), a large mammal that causes frequently Road-kill in Jeju Island. So, to predict potential wildlife habitats by considering geographic, environmental, and transportation variables for a specific species this study was conducted to identify high-priority restoration sites with both characteristics of potential habitats and road-kill hotspot. we identified high-priority restoration sites that is likely to be potential habitats, and also identified the known location of a Road-kill records. For this purpose, first, we defined the environmental variables and collect the occurrence records of roe deer. After that, the potential habitat map was generated by using Random Forest model. Second, to analyze roadkill hotspots, a kernel density estimation was used to generate a hotspot map. Third, to define high-priority restoration sites, each map was normalized and overlaid. As a result, three northern regions roads and two southern regions roads of Jeju Island were defined as high-priority restoration sites. Regarding Random Forest modeling, in the case of environmental variables, The importace was found to be a lot in the order of distance from the Oreum, elevation, distance from forest edge(outside) and distance from waterbody. The AUC(Area under the curve) value, which means discrimination capacity, was found to be 0.973 and support the statistical accuracy of prediction result. As a result of predicting the habitat of C. pygargus, it was found to be mainly distributed in forests, agricultural lands, and grasslands, indicating that it supported the results of previous studies.

• 한국해양생명과학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.160-165
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• 2023

본 연구는 생리적, 환경적 변화에 따른 명태 Gadus chalcogrammus 피부계의 변화 연구를 위한 기초 연구로서 피부계의 구조, 구성 세포 종류 및 조직화학적 특징을 기재하였다. 측선은 전반부가 완만한 곡선형이었으며, 중반부터 후반부까지는 직선으로 나타났다. 피부는 상피층과 진피층으로 구성되며, 상피층은 다층으로 상피세포, 점액세포, 곤봉세포로 이루어져 있다. 상피세포는 표면층의 편평형 세포, 중간층의 입방형 세포, 기저층의 원주형 세포로 구성된다. 상피층의 두께는 122.9 ㎛, 체장에 대한 상피층의 두께 비율은 0.03%였다. 단세포선인 점액세포와 곤봉세포는 주로 상피층의 표면층과 중간층에 분포하며, 점액세포는 산성 당단백질의 점액물질을 함유하고 있었다. 상피층에서 점액세포와 곤봉세포의 분포비율은 각각 21.3 (± 7.0.)%와 4.0 (± 1.0)%였다. 진피층은 치밀결합조직으로 주로 콜라겐 섬유로 구성되며, 섬유세포, 혈관, 색소포, 비늘이 관찰되었다.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.1240-1252
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• 2021

Objective: To compare the accuracy for detecting breast cancer in the diagnostic setting between the use of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), defined as DBT alone or combined DBT and digital mammography (DM), and the use of DM alone through a systematic review and meta-analysis. Materials and Methods: Ovid-MEDLINE, Ovid-Embase, Cochrane Library and five Korean local databases were searched for articles published until March 25, 2020. We selected studies that reported diagnostic accuracy in women who were recalled after screening or symptomatic. Study quality was assessed using the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 tool. A bivariate random effects model was used to estimate pooled sensitivity and specificity. We compared the diagnostic accuracy between DBT and DM alone using meta-regression and subgroup analyses by modality of intervention, country, existence of calcifications, breast density, Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System category threshold, study design, protocol for participant sampling, sample size, reason for diagnostic examination, and number of readers who interpreted the studies. Results: Twenty studies (n = 44513) that compared DBT and DM alone were included. The pooled sensitivity and specificity were 0.90 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.86-0.93) and 0.90 (95% CI 0.84-0.94), respectively, for DBT, which were higher than 0.76 (95% CI 0.68-0.83) and 0.83 (95% CI 0.73-0.89), respectively, for DM alone (p < 0.001). The area under the summary receiver operating characteristics curve was 0.95 (95% CI 0.93-0.97) for DBT and 0.86 (95% CI 0.82-0.88) for DM alone. The higher sensitivity and specificity of DBT than DM alone were consistently noted in most subgroup and meta-regression analyses. Conclusion: Use of DBT was more accurate than DM alone for the diagnosis of breast cancer. Women with clinical symptoms or abnormal screening findings could be more effectively evaluated for breast cancer using DBT, which has a superior diagnostic performance compared to DM alone.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.829-839
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• 2021

Objective: To compare the diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced radial T1-weighted gradient-echo 3-tesla (3T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) for the detection of visceral pleural surface invasion (VPSI). Visceral pleural invasion by non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can be classified into two types: PL1 (without VPSI), invasion of the elastic layer of the visceral pleura without reaching the visceral pleural surface, and PL2 (with VPSI), full invasion of the visceral pleura. Materials and Methods: Thirty-three patients with pathologically confirmed VPSI by NSCLC were retrospectively reviewed. Multidetector CT and contrast-enhanced 3T MRI with a free-breathing radial three-dimensional fat-suppressed volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination (VIBE) pulse sequence were compared in terms of the length of contact, angle of mass margin, and arch distance-to-maximum tumor diameter ratio. Supplemental evaluation of the tumor-pleura interface (smooth versus irregular) could only be performed with MRI (not discernible on CT). Results: At the tumor-pleura interface, radial VIBE MRI revealed a smooth margin in 20 of 21 patients without VPSI and an irregular margin in 10 of 12 patients with VPSI, yielding an accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and F-score for VPSI detection of 91%, 83%, 95%, 91%, 91%, and 87%, respectively. The McNemar test and receiver operating characteristics curve analysis revealed no significant differences between the diagnostic accuracies of CT and MRI for evaluating the contact length, angle of mass margin, or arch distance-to-maximum tumor diameter ratio as predictors of VPSI. Conclusion: The diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced radial T1-weighted gradient-echo 3T MRI and CT were equal in terms of the contact length, angle of mass margin, and arch distance-to-maximum tumor diameter ratio. The advantage of MRI is its clear depiction of the tumor-pleura interface margin, facilitating VPSI detection.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.770-781
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• 2021

Objective: Chemical exchange-dependent saturation transfer (CEST) MRI is sensitive for detecting solid-like proteins and may detect changes in the levels of mobile proteins and peptides in tissues. The objective of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of chemical exchange proton pools using the CEST MRI technique in patients with dementia. Materials and Methods: Our institutional review board approved this cross-sectional prospective study and informed consent was obtained from all participants. This study included 41 subjects (19 with dementia and 22 without dementia). Complete CEST data of the brain were obtained using a three-dimensional gradient and spin-echo sequence to map CEST indices, such as amide, amine, hydroxyl, and magnetization transfer ratio asymmetry (MTR_asym) values, using six-pool Lorentzian fitting. Statistical analyses of CEST indices were performed to evaluate group comparisons, their correlations with gray matter volume (GMV) and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. Results: Amine signals (0.029 for non-dementia, 0.046 for dementia, p = 0.011 at hippocampus) and MTR_asym values at 3 ppm (0.748 for non-dementia, 1.138 for dementia, p = 0.022 at hippocampus), and 3.5 ppm (0.463 for non-dementia, 0.875 for dementia, p = 0.029 at hippocampus) were significantly higher in the dementia group than in the non-dementia group. Most CEST indices were not significantly correlated with GMV; however, except amide, most indices were significantly correlated with the MMSE scores. The classification power of most CEST indices was lower than that of GMV but adding one of the CEST indices in GMV improved the classification between the subject groups. The largest improvement was seen in the MTR_asym values at 2 ppm in the anterior cingulate (area under the ROC curve = 0.981), with a sensitivity of 100 and a specificity of 90.91. Conclusion: CEST MRI potentially allows noninvasive image alterations in the Alzheimer's disease brain without injecting isotopes for monitoring different disease states and may provide a new imaging biomarker in the future.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2024

기존의 사면안정해석은 포화토 이론에 기반하여 비탈면 안정성에 대한 평가가 진행되었다. 그러나 자연 지반은 기후에 따라 함수 특성이 변화하기 때문에 포화토 이론은 한계가 있어 불포화토의 특성을 고려한 안정해석 연구가 필요하다. 또한, 실제 불포화토 지반은 호우로 인해 모관흡수력이 감소하여 사면 안정성의 저감을 유발하기 때문에 이에 대한 공학적 특성을 평가하는 것이 중요한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 국내 산지에 내포된 화강풍화토를 활용하여 세립분 함량을 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%로 구분한 4가지 시료를 통해 흙-함수 특성 시험을 수행하였으며, 특히 건조과정뿐만 아니라 실제 사면에서 호우로 인한 안정성 평가를 고려하기 위해 함수비를 증가시키는 습윤과정을 진행하였다. 또한, 다양한 이론식을 적용하여 실험에 가장 일치하는 이론식인 van Genuchten(1980) 모델을 활용하였으며, 건조과정과 습윤과정에 대한 화강풍화토의 세립분에 따른 파라미터를 분석하였다.

• 공업화학
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2024

고분자전해질막 연료전지는 작동온도가 낮아, 다른 종류의 연료전지에 비해 빠른 시동과 응답 특성을 가진다는 장점이 있다. 시뮬레이션 연구는 비용과 시간 측면에서 이점이 있어 활발하게 연구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 수식에 단위전지의 기체확산층에 잔류하는 물의 저항을 추가하여 실제 데이터와 모델데이터를 비교했다. 실험은 25 cm² 단위 전지로 진행됐으며, 1차 임피던스 측정, 활성화, 분극곡선 데이터 획득 후 정지 시간을 0, 10, 60분으로 가지는 샘플로 나눠 실험했다. 이는 기체확산층 내부의 잔류 중인 물이 증발할 시간을 0분, 10분, 60분 부여했다고 볼 수 있다. 휴식기간을 가지지 않는 경우, 같은 전위 및 같은 유량에서 성능 향상의 폭은 큰 차이를 보이지 않았으나, 휴식기간을 가진 막전극 접합체의 경우 임피던스 측정 시 성능 향상이 확인되었다. 저항 감소크기를 과전압으로 바꿔, 연료전지모델에 잔류수가 존재할 경우와 존재하지 않을 경우의 전압 차이를 비교했으며 그 결과로 농도손실이 주를 이루는 고전류밀도 영역의 오차율이 줄어든 것을 확인하였다.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.395-405
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• 2023

Objective: This study aimed to develop and validate models using radiomics features on a native T1 map from cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) to predict left ventricular reverse remodeling (LVRR) in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NIDCM). Materials and Methods: Data from 274 patients with NIDCM who underwent CMR imaging with T1 mapping at Severance Hospital between April 2012 and December 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. Radiomic features were extracted from the native T1 maps. LVRR was determined using echocardiography performed ≥ 180 days after the CMR. The radiomics score was generated using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator logistic regression models. Clinical, clinical + late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), clinical + radiomics, and clinical + LGE + radiomics models were built using a logistic regression method to predict LVRR. For internal validation of the result, bootstrap validation with 1000 resampling iterations was performed, and the optimism-corrected area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was computed. Model performance was compared using AUC with the DeLong test and bootstrap. Results: Among 274 patients, 123 (44.9%) were classified as LVRR-positive and 151 (55.1%) as LVRR-negative. The optimism-corrected AUC of the radiomics model in internal validation with bootstrapping was 0.753 (95% CI, 0.698-0.813). The clinical + radiomics model revealed a higher optimism-corrected AUC than that of the clinical + LGE model (0.794 vs. 0.716; difference, 0.078 [99% CI, 0.003-0.151]). The clinical + LGE + radiomics model significantly improved the prediction of LVRR compared with the clinical + LGE model (optimism-corrected AUC of 0.811 vs. 0.716; difference, 0.095 [99% CI, 0.022-0.139]). Conclusion: The radiomic characteristics extracted from a non-enhanced T1 map may improve the prediction of LVRR and offer added value over traditional LGE in patients with NIDCM. Additional external validation research is required.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.1093-1101
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• 2023

Objective: Cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as a noninvasive method to quantitatively assess bowel motility. However, its accuracy in measuring various degrees of small bowel motility has not been extensively evaluated. We aimed to draw a quantitative small bowel motility score from cine MRI and evaluate its performance in a population with varying degrees of small bowel motility. Materials and Methods: A total of 174 participants (28.5 ± 7.6 years; 135 males) underwent a 22-second-long cine MRI sequence (2-dimensional balanced turbo-field echo; 0.5 seconds per image) approximately 5 minutes after being intravenously administered 10 mg of scopolamine-N-butyl bromide to deliberately create diverse degrees of small bowel motility. In a manually segmented area of the small bowel, motility was automatically quantified using a nonrigid registration and calculated as a quantitative motility score. The mean value (MV) of motility grades visually assessed by two radiologists was used as a reference standard. The quantitative motility score's correlation (Spearman's ρ) with the reference standard and performance (area under the receiver operating characteristics curve [AUROC], sensitivity, and specificity) for diagnosing adynamic small bowel (MV of 1) were evaluated. Results: For the MV of the quantitative motility scores at grades 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3, the mean ± standard deviation values were 0.019 ± 0.003, 0.027 ± 0.010, 0.033 ± 0.008, 0.032 ± 0.009, and 0.043 ± 0.013, respectively. There was a significant positive correlation between the quantitative motility score and the MV (ρ = 0.531, P < 0.001). The AUROC value for diagnosing a MV of 1 (i.e., adynamic small bowel) was 0.953 (95% confidence interval, 0.923-0.984). Moreover, the optimal cutoff for the quantitative motility score was 0.024, with a sensitivity of 100% (15/15) and specificity of 89.9% (143/159). Conclusion: The quantitative motility score calculated from a cine MRI enables diagnosis of an adynamic small bowel, and potentially discerns various degrees of bowel motility.

• 재활치료과학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.69-84
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• 2024

목적 : 노인의 건강한 삶의 방식으로서 라이프스타일에 대한 연구가 증가하고 있다. 라이프스타일이 개개인의 가치와 삶의 태도를 반영하는 개념임에도 불구하고, 아직까지 개인의 어떠한 가치가 라이프스타일을 건강하게 유도하는지 파악한 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 노인의 라이프스타일 유형을 두 가지로 분류하고, 머신러닝을 활용하여 어떠한 개인적 가치가 건강한 라이프스타일에 우선적으로 작용하는지 파악하고자 한다. 연구방법 : 본 연구는 지역사회에 거주하는 55세 이상 중고령 노인 300명을 대상으로 횡단 연구를 수행하였다. 라이프스타일은 Yonsei Lifestyle Profile-Active, Balanced, Connected, Diverse (YLP-ABCD) 응답을 사용하여 잠재프로파일 분석을 통해 유형화하였다. 라이프스타일 유형을 예측하는 개인적 가치는 YLP-V (Values) 응답을 수집하여, 예측성능이 가장 높은 머신러닝 알고리즘을 선정한 후 상대적 중요도를 파악하였다. 결과 : 잠재프로파일 분석 결과, 라이프스타일은 건강한 라이프스타일 실천형(48.87%), 비실천형(51.13%)으로 분류되었다. 실천형에 속한 중고령 노인은 비실천형에 비해 사회관계가 활발한 특성을 나타내었다. 본 연구에 포함된 머신러닝 알고리즘 중 가장 우수한 성능을 보인 모델은 서포트 벡터 머신으로, 정확도 96%, Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) 영역 95%로 나타났다. 본 알고리즘을 바탕으로 개인적 가치의 상대적 중요도를 분석한 결과, 건강한 식단, 건강 매체, 여가활동, 건강 제품 및 머신러닝에 주의를 기울일수록, 해당 가치에 따라 중고령 노인은 건강한 라이프스타일을 실천하는 그룹에 속할 가능성이 큰 것으로 나타났다. 결론 : 본 연구는 중고령 노인의 사회적 관계망을 포함한 건강한 라이프스타일을 유도하기 위해, 건강 식단, 매체, 여가, 제품 및 습관에 대한 가치 향상을 중점적으로 다루는 종합적인 프로그램 및 서비스의 필요성을 시사한다.