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Short Note on Optimizing Feature Selection to Improve Medical Diagnosis

  • Guo, Cui;Ryoo, Hong Seo
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.71-74
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    • 2014
  • A new classification framework called 'support feature machine' was introduced in [2] for analyzing medical data. Contrary to authors' claim, however, the proposed method is not designed to guarantee minimizing the use of the spatial feature variables. This paper mathematically remedies this drawback and provides comments on models from [2].

A Study on "Due to pathogenic Gi(因於氣)" in "Somun(素問).Saenggitongcheonron(生氣通天論)" ("소문.생기통천론(素問.生氣通天論)"의 "인어기(因於氣)"에 대한 연구(硏究))

  • Kim, Sun-Hyung;Bang, Jung-Kyun
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.291-297
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    • 2009
  • It is difficult that we understand "Due to pathogenic Gi(因於氣)" in "Somun(素問) Saenggitongcheonron(生氣通天論)", because that is too many comments. We are to interpret Gi(氣) as Wind(風) or Anger(怒). However, the most reasonable explanation is to Yang-Gi weakness(陽氣虛). In other words, pathogenic Gi of four seasons should violate Yang-Gi(陽氣) and become a Yang-Gi weakness. Sayu(四維) can be interpreted as limbs[四肢], the last month of each of the four seasons[四季], four seasons[四時]. It is a logical view of the four seasons. This meaning is that it was already Yang-Gi weakness state by pathogenic-Gi of four seasons which violate Yang-Gi(陽氣), again the pathogenic Gi of four seasons violate Yang-Gi. As a result Yang-Gi will drain.

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Learning experience of undergraduate medical students during 'model preparation' of physiological concepts

  • Soundariya, Krishnamurthy;Deepika, Velusami;Kalaiselvan, Ganapathy;Senthilvelou, Munian
    • Korean journal of medical education
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.359-364
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: Learning physiological concepts and their practical applications in the appropriate contexts remains a great challenge for undergraduate medical students. Hence the present study aimed to analyze the learning experience of undergraduate medical students during an active learning process of 'preparation of models' depicting physiological concepts. Methods: A total of 13 groups, involving 55 undergraduate medical students with three to five individuals in each group, were involved in model preparation. A total of 13 models were exhibited by the students. The students shared their learning experiences as responses to an open-ended questionnaire. The students' responses were analyzed and generalized comments were generated. Results: Analysis of the results showed that the act of 'model preparation' improved concept understanding, retention of knowledge, analytical skills, and referral habits. Further, the process of 'model preparation' could satisfy all types of sensory modality learners. Conclusion: This novel active method of learning could be highly significant in students' understanding and learning physiology concepts. This approach could be incorporated in the traditional instructor-centered undergraduate medical curriculum as a way to innovate it.

A Topic Modeling Analysis for Online News Article Comments on Nurses' Workplace Bullying (간호사의 직장 내 괴롭힘 관련 온라인 뉴스기사 댓글에 대한 토픽 모델링 분석)

  • Kang, Jiyeon;Kim, Soogyeong;Roh, Seungkook
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.49 no.6
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    • pp.736-747
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: This study aimed to explore public opinion on workplace bullying in the nursing field, by analyzing the keywords and topics of online news comments. Methods: This was a text-mining study that collected, processed, and analyzed text data. A total of 89,951 comments on 650 online news articles, reported between January 1, 2013 and July 31, 2018, were collected via web crawling. The collected unstructured text data were preprocessed and keyword analysis and topic modeling were performed using R programming. Results: The 10 most important keywords were "work" (37121.7), "hospital" (25286.0), "patients" (24600.8), "woman" (24015.6), "physician" (20840.6), "trouble" (18539.4), "time" (17896.3), "money" (16379.9), "new nurses" (14056.8), and "salary" (13084.1). The 22,572 preprocessed key words were categorized into four topics: "poor working environment", "culture among women", "unfair oppression", and "society-level solutions". Conclusion: Public interest in workplace bullying among nurses has continued to increase. The public agreed that negative work environment and nursing shortage could cause workplace bullying. They also considered nurse bullying as a problem that should be resolved at a societal level. It is necessary to conduct further research through gender discrimination perspectives on nurse workplace bullying and the social value of nursing work.

A Study on the prescriptions of 『Sanbeon-bang(刪繁方)』 (『산번방(刪繁方)』의 의방(醫方)에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Do-Hoon;Jeong, Chang-Hyun
    • The Journal of Korean Medical History
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.111-127
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    • 2004
  • This paper is mainly on the rsearch of the prescriptions of "Sanbeon-bang(刪 繁方)". For the research of prescription, investigated "Sanbeon-bang" from the side of symptoms of a disease, number of drugstuffs, table of contents, drugstuffs and acupuncture and moxibustion. With these investigation, made out a few tables, and with these tables made an attempt to understand the whole prescriptions of "Sanbeon-bang". "Sanbeon-bang" is of rich contents in internal medicine. Among internal medicine, related to Oro-Yukgeuk-Chilsang(五勞-六極-七傷) was most abundant. So we can guess "Sanbeon-bang" was a medical book specialized in exhaustion syndromes. It also deals with the Samcho-syndromes, as investigate from medical comments, has the perfect system of prescription in relative. From the investigation of the combination of drugstuffs, ascertained that, the number of simple prescription composed of one drugstuff was 38, combinational prescription composed of two drugstuffs was 9, minor prescription composed of three to five drugstuffs was 47, midum prescription composed of six to ten drugstuffs was 95, major prescription composed of eleven to twenty drugstuffs was 45, and mixed prescription composed over twenty drugstuffs was 1. Mentionable unique prescriptions in internal use were the forms of keeping in mouth. In external use they were fumigants, suppositories, powdered medicines, spraying the granular medication into the nasal cavity and eyedrops. And were abundant in soft extract(ointment) and plaster. In addition, there were the recordings of 18 types of cellulitis, types of incurable cellulitis and curing an illness by a charm. By the way, when comparing "Sanbeon-bang" with "Cheongeum-bang", all of which was quoted a lot in "Oedaebiyo-bang", "Cheongeum-bang" rather took medical comments of "Sanbeon-bang" than prescription. Although there were some prescriptons in "Sanbeon-bang" at the same category, "Cheongeum-bang" took another prescriptions which are more complexed than those of "Sanbeon-bang". In the same way, when comparing "Cheongeum-bang" with "Sonjinin-Cheongeum-bang(孫眞人千金方)", which didn't go through the correction of GyojeongUiseoguk of Bug-Song goverment, "Cheongeum-bang" often didn't take the prescriptions of "Sonjinin-Cheongeum-bang". Hence we can guess, "Cheongeumyo-bang" may have added a lot of prescriptions when undergoing the correction of of GyojeongUiseoguk. The total number of species of drugstuffs in "Sanbeon-bang" from the investigation was 284. The plant drugs were 208 species, the animal were 31 species, the minerals were 19 species and the other were 26 species. The prescriptions related to acupuncture and moxibustion in "Sanbeon-bang" were only moxibustional prescriptions. Which appeared one time per exhaustion and steaming of bone syndrome, Oro-Yukgeuk-Chilsang and Samcho syndrome. Appeared six times in muscle syndromes. But I cannot imagine the original form of acupuncture and moxibustion in "Sanbeon-bang" for deficiency of data.

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End of Life Issues in Cancer Cases: Ethical Aspects

  • Taghavi, Afsoon;Hashemi-Bahremani, Mohammad;Hosseini, Leili;Bazmi, Shabnam
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.17 no.sup3
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    • pp.239-243
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    • 2016
  • This article investigates ethical challenges cancer patients face in the end stages of life including doctors' responsibilities, patients' rights, unexpected desires of patients and their relatives, futile treatments, and communication with patients in end stages of life. These patients are taken care of through palliative rather than curative measures. In many cases, patients in the last days of life ask their physician to terminate their illness via euthanasia which has many ethical considerations. Proponents of such mercy killing (euthanasia) believe that if the patient desires, the physician must end the life, while opponents of this issue, consider it as an act of murder incompatible with the spirit of medical sciences. The related arguments presented in this paper and other ethical issues these patients face and possible solutions for dealing with them have been proposed. It should be mentioned that this paper is more human rational and empirical and the views of the legislator are not included, though in many cases human intellectual and empirical comments are compatible with those of the legislator.

A Study on the Forehead Temperature Distribution Palpation, so called 'Emaizhenduan' (이마의 온도 분포 진단법, 소위 액맥진단(額脈診斷)에 관한 고찰)

  • Jeong, Seunghan;Kim, Kiwang
    • The Journal of the Society of Korean Medicine Diagnostics
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2015
  • Objectives As a method of body temperature distribution diagnosis, palpation of infants' forehead had been widely introduced in ancient East Asian medical classics. However, few attention have been paid to this diagnostic method - so called 'emaizhenduan (額脈診斷)'. So we studied the history of emaizhenduan and it's implication in modern clinical field. Materials and methods: To search the medical classic that contains any contents of emaizhenduan, we mainly used the electronic texts of Zhonghuayidian (中華醫典). To search modern study article on emaizhenduan, we used China National Knowledge Infrastructure (www.cnki.net), National Digital Science Library (ndsl.kr) etc. Results 20 kinds of East Asian medical classics were found to contain contents on emaizhenduan. The oldest one was Huoyoukouyi (活幼口議) which was written in Yuan dynasty of China. Only one modern TCM book was found to have comments on emaizhenduan, while some textbooks of pediatrics in Korean Medicine was found to have relatively sound introduction on emaizhenduan. Conclusion It is shown in ancient East Asian medical classics that infants' forehead temperature palpation was introduced as early as late 13th century in China, and have continuously been referred in many East Asian medical classics before modern era.

소문(素問).침해(鍼解)에 대(對)한 연구(硏究)

  • Jeong, Heon-Hyeong;Kim, Yeong-Ha;Cheon, Sang-Muk;Park, Gyeong;Lee, Gang-Yeong
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.13 no.2 s.17
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    • pp.98-105
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    • 2000
  • This part is to comment the part related to acupuncture among the contents of Ku Chim Sip Ⅰ Won(九鍼十二原) in Young Chu(靈樞) and Bo Myung Jeon Hyung Lon(寶命全形論) in So Moon(素問). This volume divide in three chapters. Chapter Ⅰ deals with rules of Bosa(補瀉) in acupuncture. Chapter Ⅱ deals with desirable attitude in acupuncture. Chapter Ⅲ deals with Ku Chim(九鍼) that correspond to the universe, four seasons and YinYang. So Chim Hea(小鍼解) in Young Chu(靈樞) also comments Ku Chim Sip Ⅰ Won(九鍼十二原) in the same way that this part does. And yet there are not a few differences from this part in noting. Thus we need the comparative study of between this part and So Chim Hea to understand Ku Chim Sip Ⅰ Won(九鍼十二原). Therefore I made a comparative study of views of many physicians to correctly understand.

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The Effect of Service Convenience and Mobile Apps on Consumer Re-Use in the Service Trade Market: A Focus on China Medical Tourist

  • Kim, Seong-Jin
    • Journal of Korea Trade
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.58-79
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    • 2019
  • Purpose - This study focused on the effect of mobile app information system quality on re-use intention in the medical service trade, and examined how the Chinese, currently the main consumer of Korea's medical service trade, obtained information through mobile apps, and the status of satisfaction felt by experiencing medical services. Design/methodology - The survey period was from November 2018 to January 2019, and was conducted on Chinese who voluntarily experienced medical services. The collected data verified causality of the study model through the statistical program, SPSS.24. The results showed that the most popular medical institution through the medical service mobile app is dermatology, and the quality of the app's information system plays a mediating role in influencing re-use intention. Findings - Overall, the current trade in medical services is first accessed and acquired through mobile apps, and as a result, consumers revisit medical institutions according to the reliability of information. Comments and likes, another new form of the word of mouth that has greatly influenced revisiting in the past, are seen to be spreading through the app's medical information. Originality/value - The previous market for the medical services trade was formed by very conservative word of mouth, but now we believe that the app's information system actively influences the revisit effect. This means that apps can be used in diverse areas in the medical service trade market. In addition, the medical service market needs to further develop a mobile app environment that can reflect consumers' diverse needs, behaviors, and culture from time to time in order to revitalize the service trade. Such an app environment development will have tremendous promotional effects on the trade market and provide directions for expanding trade in medical services.