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Purpose: We compared three chest compression methods to find an efficient method for performing infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for single rescuers and improving chest compressions quality. Methods: Thirty new marine police trainees at the Korea Coast Guard Education Institute were tested for five sessions using three methods of single rescuer infant CPR: two-finger chest compression, two-thumb encircling chest compression, and two-finger support chest compression. Results: The depth, accuracy, and number of compressions per minute of resuscitation were analyzed for the above three methods. The depth of two-finger chest compression, two-thumb encircling chest compression, and two-finger support chest compression was 3.53±0.20cm, 4.10±0.13cm, and 4.22±0.15cm, respectively. Accuracy was 23.86±12.59%, 54.11±10.8%, 71.55±18.81%, respectively, while the time for one cycle of 30 chest compression was 16.01±10.5 seconds, 16.45±0.85 seconds, and 16.56±0.91 seconds, respectively. Chest compression interruptions were 6.59±0.78 seconds, 7.17±0.37 seconds, and 6.97±0.35 seconds, respectively. The interruptions were consistent with the range of 5–10 seconds suggested by the American Heart Association. Conclusion: When one rescuer performs CPR for an infant in cardiac arrest, a comparative analysis of three methods showed that two-thumb encircling chest compression is the best for accuracy and efficiency of chest compressions.

Purpose: This study aimed to propose an effective one-rescuer infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) chest compression technique by comparing the differences in efficacy, convenience, and pain levels between the two thumb-encircling and two finger techniques. Methods: Subjects were randomized to perform either two-thumb-encircling or two-finger technique for 8 minutes each on infant CPR manikins. After the chest compression, a survey was administered to the subjects to measure convenience and pain levels according to compression method. Results: Total compression depth over 8 minutes was significantly deeper for the two-thumencircling technique (43.5±4.8mm) compared with the two-finger technique (32.6±5.4mm) (p<0.001). In terms of compression depth measured at 1-minute intervals, compression depth with the two-finger technique decreased from 38.3±4.23mm to 29.0±6.79mm, whereas compression depth with the two-thumb-encircling technique did not show a significant change (from 43.7±4.12mm to 43.4±5mm). The results of the survey indicated that, the majority of subjects found the two-thumb-encircling technique to be the most comfortable technique for compression depth (n=29, 64.4%). The majority of subjects (n=31, 68.9%) answered that the two-finger technique resulted in the most pain. Conclusion: Comparison of efficacy of the two-thumb-encircling and two-finger-techniques in the performance of one-rescuer infant CPR revealed that the two-thumb-encircling technique was more effective in maintaining chest compression depth.

This study is about efficiency export and import of medical images According to the Type of Compression. PACS to be used in many hospitals and medical images export is growing more and more because cheaper and good usability than film system. Thereby export department takes a lot of time, which may cause the patient discomfort. Compression images takes less time for images export, import than nocompression images. therefore, if no significant problems clinicians to view the images, this is one method to compressed images export for reduce the time and it will provide less cost and shorter time for patient.

With the rapid development of social network, more and more information is being presented in the form of multimedia, so the security of multimedia files, especially video files, has been capturing the attention of the researchers. Video encryption is widely applied to the DRM system, video conference, medical and military fields and so on. A general video encryption algorithm is proposed to solve the problem that the existing multiple formats (compression formats and container formats) of video requires a unified encryption scheme. Meanwhile, the proposed scheme can not only provide variable levels of security, but also have good performance of compression efficiency and computational complexity, which can ensure that the encrypted video data can be operation.

We develop a novel SAD circuit for power-efficient H.264 encoding, namely a-SAD. Here, some highest-order MSB's are approximated to single MSB. Our theoretical estimations show that our proposed design simultaneously improves performance and power of SAD circuit, achieving good power efficiency. We decide that the optimal number of approximated MSB's is four under 8-bit YUV-420 format, the largest number not to affect video quality and compression-rate in our video experiments. In logic simulations, our a-SAD circuit shows at least 9.3% smaller critical-path delay compared to existing SAD circuits. We compare power dissipation under iso-throughput scenario, where our a-SAD circuit obtains at least 11.6% power saving compared to other designs. We perform same simulations under two- and three-stage pipelined architecture. Here, our a-SAD circuit delivers significant performance (by 13%) and power (by 17% and 15.8% for two and three stages respectively) improvements.

A whole-body compression garment (WBCG) is mainly used for cosmetic purpose in Korea. Another case for wearing the WBCG would be while exercising because it allows the body to move easily. But physiological effects of wearing WBCG to the body have not been known much. To investigate whether wearing WBCG would be helpful for conducting exercises, we measured physiological criteria, which could be influenced by the compression, such as cardiovascular and pulmonary function. Twelve female college students participated in this experiment. Increase of blood pressure was monitored in all of the participants when they wore a WBCG just for 10 minutes. Pulmonary function that requires skeletal muscle contraction was decreased by wearing a WBCG. Blood pressure measured after conducting exercise became even lower when wearing a WBCG than non-wearing. Interestingly, heart pulse remained lower when wearing a WBCG than non-wearing during the whole relaxing period after the exercise. Electrocardiogram (ECG) analyses showed that such lower heart rate largely depended on extension of QT time. For that reason, physiological efficiency index (PEI) was higher for wearing WBCG. These results indicate wearing WBCG could enhance exercise efficiency by lowering heart pulse.

최근 VR(virtual reality)의 관심이 급격하게 늘어감에 따라 HMD(Head Mounted Display), 360도 VR 카메라 등 많은 VR기기들이 출시되고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 현재 360도 VR 비디오의 경우 기존의 일반 2D 비디오의 코덱을 그대로 사용하고 있다. 기존의 코덱은 360도 VR 비디오의 특징을 고려하지 않고 비디오를 부/복호화하기 때문에 압축효율이 떨어지게 된다. 본 논문에서는 360도 VR 비디오의 특성 중 시점이 달라 생기는 왜곡을 보정한 참조프레임으로 사용함으로써 압축효율을 높이는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 적용할 경우 시간적 예측 효율이 높아져 압축효율이 높아진다.

Recently, many companies and consumers has shown a lot of interest toward VR(Virtual Reality), so many VR devices such as HMD(Head mounted Display) and 360 degree VR camera are released on the market. Current encoded 360 degree VR video uses the codec which originally made for the conventional 2D video. Therefore, the compression efficiency isn't optimized because the en/decoder does not consider the characteristics of the 360 degree VR video. In this paper, we propose a method to improve the compression efficiency by using the reference frame which compensates for the distortions caused by characteristics the 360 degree VR video. Applying the proposed method we were able to increase the compression efficiency by providing better prediction.

최근 하드웨어 연산 장치와 소프트웨어 기반 프레임워크의 발전으로 딥러닝 네트워크를 활용한 머신 태스크가 다양한 산업 분야 및 개인 IoT 장비에서의 활용이 기대되고 있다. 그러나 딥러닝 네트워크를 구동하기 위한 장치의 고비용 문제와 서버에서 머신 태스크 결과만을 전송받을 때 사용자가 요구하는 결과를 받지 못할 수 있다는 제한 사항을 극복하기 위하여 Collaborative Intelligence (CI)에서는 피처 맵의 전송을 그 해결 방법으로 제시하였다. 본 논문에서는 CI 패러다임을 지원하기 위하여 방대한 데이터 크기를 갖는 피처 맵의 효율적인 압축 방법을 실험을 통해 분석 및 제시하였다. 해당 방법은 전통적인 비디오 코덱에서의 압축 효율을 높이기 위하여 피처 맵의 재정렬을 적용하여 중복성을 높였으며, 정지 영상 압축 포맷과 동영상 압축 포맷을 동시에 활용하여 압축 효율을 높이고 머신 태스크의 성능을 유지하는 피처 맵 방법을 제시하였다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 방법의 분석을 통해 MPEG-VCM의 피처 압축 앵커 대비 BPP와 mAP의 BD-rate에서 14.29%의 성능이 향상됨을 검증하였다.

With the recent development of hardware computing devices and software based frameworks, machine tasks using deep learning networks are expected to be utilized in various industrial fields and personal IoT devices. However, in order to overcome the limitations of high cost device for utilizing the deep learning network and that the user may not receive the results requested when only the machine task results are transmitted from the server, Collaborative Intelligence (CI) proposed the transmission of feature maps as a solution. In this paper, an efficient compression method for feature maps with vast data sizes to support the CI paradigm was analyzed and presented through experiments. This method increases redundancy by applying feature map reordering to improve compression efficiency in traditional video codecs, and proposes a feature map method that improves compression efficiency and maintains the performance of machine tasks by simultaneously utilizing image compression format and video compression format. As a result of the experiment, the proposed method shows 14.29% gain in BD-rate of BPP and mAP compared to the feature compression anchor of MPEG-VCM.

최근 거의 완벽한 3차원 영상정보를 갖고 있는 디지털 홀로그램에 대한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있어 조만간 디지털 홀로그램의 서비스가 시작될 것으로 보인다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이 서비스에 사용될 수 있는 디지털 홀로그램 동영상을 압축하는 기술을 제안한다. 이 방법은 가장 최근에 국제표준으로 제정된 2차원 동영상 압축 기술인 H.265/HEVC를 사용하는데, 디지털 홀로그램의 화소 간 상관성을 높이기 위하여 도메인 변환 방법을 사용한다. 또한 압축효율을 높이기 위해 H.265/HEVC의 다양한 압축 파라미터들을 고려한다. 본 논문의 목적은 다양한 도메인 변환 방법, 도메인 변환 단위, 압축 파라미터들 중 가장 압축효율이 좋은 최적의 압축조건을 실험을 통하여 구하는 것이다. 이렇게 구해진 조건을 만족하는 압축방법을 기존의 방법들과 비교하여 본 논문에서 제시하는 방법의 우수성을 보인다.

Recently, many researches on digital holograms, which retain almost perfect 3 dimensional image information, have been performed actively that it seems for them to be serviced soon. Accordingly, this paper proposes a data compression technique for a digital hologram video for this service. It uses H.265/HEVC, the most recent international 2 dimensional video compression standard, for which we consider various domain transform methods to increase the correlation among the pixels in a digital hologram. Also we consider the various parameters on H.265/HEVC. The purpose of this paper is to find empirically the optimal condition for the domain transform method, the size of transform unit, and the H.265/HEVC parameters. The proposed method satisfying the optimal parameter set found is compared to the existing methods to prove that ours shows better performance.

본 연구에서는 먼저, 단열 압축기 또는 단열압축 과정에 대한 기존의 효율들, 즉 등 엔트로피 효율과 폴리트로픽 효율 및 엑서지 효율에서의 출력에 해당하는 양의 의미를 검토하고, 이들을 엑서지 출력을 일반화 시킨 형태의 일종으로서 설명하며, 기 타의 가능한 효율을 정의하고, 나아가 같은 논리를 압축과정 중 외부와 열교환이 있는 비단열 압축과정에 대하여 확장 적용시켜 비단열 압축과정에서의 열역학 제2법칙적 출 력 및 효율들을 정의하고 그들의 특성을 살펴보려 한다.

Conventional efficiencies of the adiabatic compression process such as isentropic efficiency and polytropic efficiency can be explained as exergetic efficiencies replacing the reference atmospheric temperature with the temperature which can be determined in the process itself. So that, other efficies such as maximum isentropic efficiency can be defined by giving proper reference temperatures. By applying the same logical principles, exergetic and other rational efficiencies for the non-adiabatic compression process are also defined and discussed for their physical meanings and reasonable engineering applications.

이 연구는 소아 심폐소생술 중 새로운 가슴압박 방법을 활용했을 때, 가슴압박의 질을 비교하여 효과적인 심폐소생술을 할 수 있도록 하고자 시행되었다. 무작위 교차방법(Randomized Crossover Design)에 의한 실험 연구로 BLS Health Care-Provider 자격을 이수한 28명의 응급구조사를 대상으로 가슴압박 시행 시 깊이, 속도, 압박 대 이완의 비율, 용이성, 안정감 등을 측정하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS Ver. 23.0 for Win 통계프로그램을 이용하여 분석하였다. 본 연구의 결과 를 종합해 보면, 소아 심폐소생술에서 가슴압박 시행 시 새로운 가슴압박법을 이용한다면 가슴압박의 질적 지표가 향상되었음을 알 수 있었다. 기존의 방법을 고수하는 것도 좋지만 새로운 가슴압박 방법을 통해 다양한 연령대와 환경요소에 대한 추가적인 연구를 바탕으로 임상적 활용의 가능성을 확인하는 것이 필요할 것이다.

This study was conducted for effective CPR by comparing the quality of chest compressions when using a new chest compression method during pediatric CPR. As an experimental study by Randomized Crossover Design, the depth, speed, compression-to-relaxation ratio, ease, and stability were measured when performing chest compressions for 28 Emergency Medical Technicians who completed the BLS Health Care-Provider qualification. The collected data were analyzed by using the SPSS Ver. 23.0 for Win statistical program. To summarize the results of this study, if the new chest compression method was used for chest compression in pediatric CPR, the qualitative indicators of chest compressions were improved. It is good to stick to the existing method, but through the new chest compression method, it will be necessary to confirm the possibility of clinical use based on additional research on various age groups and environmental factors.

제조 현장의 센서나 기기들에서 생성된 대량의 데이터들이 서버나 클라이언트로 전송되면서 네트워크 처리시간 지연, 스토리지 자원 비용 증가의 문제가 발생한다. 이러한 문제 해결을 위해 실시간 대응성과 무중단 공정이 필수인 제조 현장을 고려하여 실시간 및 무손실 압축이 가능한 QRC(Quotient Remainder Compression)와 BL_beta 압축 알고리즘을 처음으로 실제 제조 현장 센서 데이터에 적용하여 실험 결과로 두 알고리즘 중 어떤 알고리즘이 성능이 좋은지 비교 분석하였다. 실험 결과는 BL_beta가 QRC보다 압축률이 높았다. QRC의 데이터 크기를 조금 조정하여 동일한 데이터로 실험을 진행한 실험결과는 데이터 크기를 조정한 QRC 알고리즘이 기존 QRC와 BL_beta 압축 알고리즘보다 압축률이 35.48%, 20.3% 더 높았다.

As a large amount of data generated by sensors or devices at the manufacturing site is transmitted to the server or client, problems arise in network processing time delay and storage resource cost increase. To solve this problem, considering the manufacturing site, where real-time responsiveness and non-disruptive processes are essential, QRC (Quotient Remainder Compression) and BL_beta compression algorithms that enable real-time and lossless compression were applied to actual manufacturing site sensor data for the first time. As a result of the experiment, BL_beta had a higher compression rate than QRC. As a result of experimenting with the same data by slightly adjusting the data size of QRC, the compression rate of the QRC algorithm with the adjusted data size was 35.48% and 20.3% higher than the existing QRC and BL_beta compression algorithms.

The objective of this study is to investigate the market of fitness compression wear as well as to design an optimal fitness compression wear by analyzing the muscle and movement characteristics of the elderly women in Korea. In this regard, research for functional garments is needed to increase muscle activity of elderly people during physical exercise. Firstly, we investigated the brand, design, size, material, and pattern of fitness wear based on the market survey. Secondly, we identified preference, evaluation items, evaluation method, and pattern design method based on the literature review. Finally, in addition, the motion type, range, angle to improve the muscle strength of the elderly were investigated and the maximum muscle strengths of each motion were analyzed by using 2007 Size Korea data (n = 386). It is also designed for muscle fatigue through exercise and rapid fatigue recovery after exercise. The evaluation methods for fitness compression wear were classified as motor functionality, physiological comfort, pattern and material suitability evaluations. The muscle strength at leg (pushing force) and waist (lifting force) of the ages of 60 to 69 years old showed 239.3 N and 274.5 N, respectively, which were the lowest forces compared to younger age groups. By applying these results to the design process of fitness wear, it is anticipated that the fitness wear will have a proper fit to the body shape of elderly people in South Korea as well as it can increase muscle efficiency to promote physical capability and healthy life for senior people.

Recently, high-developed domestic industry and environmental issues demand high-voltage short-pulse power supply(power, voltage, pulse width and repetition rate of 100KW, 150KV, 500ns and 500Hz, respectively) for electron beam process and puolse corona process. In such power supplies magnetic compression circuit can be one of the effectives solutions. In ths study design and operation principle of a pulse-power supply with a three-stage magnetic-compression circuit are described. A good agreement between simulation and experimental results verifies the validity of thescheme. The system delivers energy of 10[J/pulse] at the efficiency of 82%[%].