• 센서학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.289-293
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• 2019

This paper presents a remote patient monitoring system for diagnostic pure-tone audiometry. A pure-tone audiometer was developed for basic hearing screening; its performance was evaluated according to international standards in terms of linearity, accuracy, and total harmonic distortion. Pure-tone audiometry has a maximum hearing level of 104.9 dB HL that is comparable with other commercial products. The audiometer shows satisfactory linearity with a deviation of ${\pm}0.4dB$, an accuracy of ${\pm}0.025%$, and a total harmonic distortion (THD) of 0.21%. The remote patient monitoring systems include remote control devices based on wide area network (WAN) connections and an audiometer connected in series. Through experimentation, we successfully performed real-time diagnostic communication without delay in transferring audiometric data. This system is expected to supply domestic equipment in the audiometric market and to improve the quality of life of patients in non-clinical environments.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.89-93
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• 2009

목적: 본 연구는 굴절교정된 정상안에서 운무 전후에 따른 순음청력검사 값의 변화를 알아보고자 시행하였다. 방법: 안질환이나 청각질환이 없으며, 교정시력이 1.0이상의 젊은 성인 50명(남자: 30명, 여자: 20명)을 대상으로 하였다. 시력교정 전후의 순음청력역치(pure tone threshold)의 변화를 순음청력검사(pure tone audiometry)를 통해서 비교해 보고자 하였다. 결과: 전 주파수 대역에서 운무 후의 순음청력역치가 운무 전보다 더 높게 나타났으며, 그 차이는 2000 Hz를 제외한 전 주파수 대역에서 통계적으로 유의하게 측정되었다(p<.05). 저주파수 대역인 250 Hz와 500 Hz에서 각각 6.8${\pm}$8.4 dBHL과 4.3${\pm}$6.6 dBHL로 나타나 다른 주파수 대역에 비해서 그 차이가 크게 나타났고, 중주파수 대역인 2000 Hz에서는 0.8${\pm}$4.5 dBHL로 가장 작게 나타났다. 결론: 굴절교정된 정상인에서 운무 전과 후의 순음청력검사의 역치값이 다르게 나타나 망막상의 선명도와 청각은 서로 영향을 주는 것으로 판단되며 이 결과는 굴절교정과 청각의 상관성을 제공하는 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.2586-2594
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• 2010

순음청력검사기는 정확한 주파수와 음압을 갖는 순음과 차폐 음을 생성하여 출력할 수 있어야 한다. 이를 위해 일정한 기간마다 보정을 하는 것이 불가피하다. 그러나 수동 보정을 사용하는 일반 순음청력검사기의 음향 보정은 집중력이 필요할 뿐 아니라 시간이 많이 걸리는 단점이 있다. 반면, PC 기반 순음청력검사기의 경우 소프트웨어를 이용하여 자동으로 보정을 수행하는 것이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 PC 기반 순음청력검사기의 자동 보정을 지원하기 위해 PC 사운드카드를 이용하여 구현한 음압측정기와 이를 이용한 순음청력검사기의 자동보정모듈을 기술한다. 자동 보정모듈을 이용하여 보정한 PC 기반 순음청력검사기를 국제표준기구가 제공하는 기준등가역치음압수준과의 적합 여부를 검증한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.261-270
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• 2018

Hearing-impaired people are increasing rapidly due to the global aging trend. Early detection of hearing loss requires an easy-to-use audiometry device for the public. Existing audiometry systems were developed as PC-based, PDA-based, or smartphone apps. These devices were often dependent on specific software platforms and hardware platforms. In this paper, we tried to improve software platform compatibility by using cross platform, and tried to implement IoT-based pure tone audiometry device which does not require sound pressure level correction due to hardware differences. Pure tone audiometry is available in a variety of ways depending on the type of hearing loss and age. Using the IoT-based audiometry device implemented in this paper, it will be possible for an app developer who lacks hardware knowledge to easily develop an app with various scenarios for hearing screening. The results of this study will contribute to overcoming the software and hardware dependency in the development of IoT-based healthcare device.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.151-156
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to develop a computer-animated pure tone audiometry for screening (CAPTAS) for toddler and to determine its validity and reliability. The CAPTAS utilizes an animated cartoon story producing visual and auditory stimuli. The intensities were 40 dB, 60 dB, 80 dB. The frequencies were 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, 2000 Hz, and 4000 Hz. The subjects were 20 (9 males and 11 females) severely hearing impaired children. As a result, The correlation coefficient between mean hearing threshold of children who were able to perform PTA and average hearing threshold of CAPTAS was performed and it revealed CAPTAS's high validity. And to verify the reliability of the re-test, all children had the CAPTAS and repeated it periodically. The result confirmed the reliability.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.229-229
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• 2006

WECPNL(Weighted Equivalent Continuous Perceived Noise Level) which designated currently in Domestic 'The Stanrd Method of Measuring Noise and Vibration' is composed of different factor with WECPNL that published in ICAO. Domestic WECPNL is concerned in application of $L_{MAX}$ measurement. On the other hand, ICAO's WECPNL is based on EPNL that includes factors of the pure tone correction and the duration time. NNI and NEF also are each based on PNL and EPNL. Because a military aircraft noise, especially, has the pure tone of high frequency and the irregular duration, it seems to be undesirable to estimate aircraft noise for using Domestic WECPNL. Therefore, this study was performed to detect a flaw of Korean WECPNL, through comparison of the trend of each other aircraft noise index by using equivalent rawdata.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.298-308
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• 2012

This study was designed to examine the phoneme recognition errors of hearing-impaired (HI) listeners on a consonant-by-consonant basis, to show (1) how each HI ear perceives individual consonants differently and (2) how standard clinical measurements (i.e., using a tone and word) fail to predict these differences. Sixteen English consonant-vowel (CV) syllables of six signal-to-noise ratios in speech-weighted noise were presented at the most comfortable level for ears with mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss. The findings were as follows: (1) individual HI listeners with a symmetrical pure-tone threshold showed different consonant-loss profiles (CLPs) (i.e., over a set of the 16 English consonants, the likelihood of misperceiving each consonant) in right and left ears. (2) A similar result was found across subjects. Paired ears of different HI individuals with identical pure-tone threshold presented different CLPs in one ear to the other. (3) Paired HI ears having the same averaged consonant score demonstrated completely different CLPs. We conclude that the standard clinical measurements are limited in their ability to predict the extent to which speech perception is degraded in HI ears, and thus they are a necessary, but not a sufficient measurement for HI speech perception. This suggests that the CV measurement would be a useful clinical tool.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2007

대부분의 보청기에서는 난청인의 청력 손실을 보상하기 위해 음성 증폭 알고리즘과 잡음 및 피드백을 제거하기 위한 알고리즘 등을 사용하고 있고, 음성의 인지율을 높이기 위해서 음성의 대비를 강조하는 알고리즘을 사용한다. 음성 대비 강조 알고리즘 사용 시 과도한 대비증폭에 의해서 포먼트(formant) 사이에서 마스킹 현상이 발생할 수 있다. 마스킹 현상을 확인하기 위해서 6가지의 주관적인 평가와 1가지의 객관적인 평가를 수행하였다. 주관적인 평가로는 순음 검사, 어음 청취 역치 검사, 낱말 분별력 검사, 순음 마스킹 검사, 포먼트 순음 마스킹 검사, 어음 마스킹 검사로 이루어져있고 객관적인 평가를 위해서 LLR(log likelihood ratio)을 도입하였다. 정상 청각 피험자와 난청 피험자의 결과로 미루어 볼 때, 난청 피험자가 마스킹이 잘 일어난다는 것을 볼 수 있었고, 어음을 이용한 마스킹 검사에서는 마스킹에 의해서 난청 피험자에서 어음에 대한 인지율이 떨어지는 결과를 볼 수 있다. 이러한 현상은 포먼트 향상에 의한 왜곡 때문이 아닌 마스킹 때문이다. 그러므로 마스킹 효과의 특성을 조사하여, 보청기 적합 시, 이러한 마스킹 특성을 고려하는 것이 필요하다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.201-208
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• 2014

This study was conducted to investigate hypoacusis due to workplace noise among dental technicians. Pure tone audiometry, impedance audiometry and heart rate variability were measured for 60 dental technicians and office workers in D city from July to November 2013, and a survey on the effects of noise was conducted. SPSS 19.0 was used for statistical analysis. In the result for threshold of pure tone audiometry, the average hearing threshold of left ears in the air conduction (AC) test showed a statistically significant decrease (P=0.019) among dental technicians, who are frequently exposed to workplace noise. The hearing threshold in the AC test for each frequency was significantly different between the two groups at 125 Hz (P=0.012) in right ears and at 1 kHz (P=0.022), 2 kHz (P=0.040), and 8 kHz (P=0.018) in left ears. Dental technicians who had worked for 16 years or longer had a significantly higher incidence of hypoacusis in the right ear (P=0.030) and in the left ear (P=0.010). In impedance audiometry showed a tympanometry result of type A in both the dental technician group and the office worker group.

• 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.156-168
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• 2002

Backgrounds : sudden sensorineural hearing loss is defined as a disease that has abrupt onset of sensorineural hearing loss without definite cause. In some cases, this disease cause tinnitus, vertigo, headache addition to hearing loss. In traditional oriental medicine, sudden sensorineural hearing loss is could be diagnosed as deficiency of Yang-Gi(陽氣). Objects & Methods : This study is clinical observation about three sudden sensorineural hearing loss cases. For diagnosing in these cases, pure tone audiometry was used. For treatment, acupuncture, herbal-medicine and moxibustion therapy were used. Results & Conclusions : as follows. 1. Generally, in this disease, the shorter the whole period from the time that occurs to the time that starts to treat is, the more the results are better. The research shows that short-term case is more efficient than the other long-term two cases in the aspects of symptoms and pure tone audiometry . 2. In making a diagnosis of sudden sensorineural hearing loss and measuring the effect, subjective symptoms generally correspond to the improvement of pure tone audiometry, but not completely. Therefore, in treating patients, the doctor must consider these both aspects and keep the balance.