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Due to the careless control of gases in this country, the catastrophic disasters has been taken places in recent years. Considering the ever increasing underground spaces, it is urgently required to provide scientific and reliable measures to prevent the possible disasters from gas leakage in the confined underground spaces. To achieve this goal, the proper monitoring and control system of gas concentration in confined spaces is indispensable. This paper introduces about newly developed gas monitoring and control system in underground spaces. This system is not only able to be monitoring the environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, gas concentration and atmospheric pressure but control the ventilation fans and solenoid valves to keep the optimum atmospheric environment in the confined spaces. This system can be controled by PC based software.

A Cardiac function is evaluated quantitatively by analyzing a shape change of the heart wall boundaries in angiographic images. To begin with, a boundary detection of end systolic left ventricle (ESLV) and end diastolic left ventricle (EDLV) is essential for the quantitative analysis of the cardiac function. Conventional methods for the boundary detection are almost semi-automatic, and a knowledgeable human operator’s intervention is still required. Manual tracing of the boundaries is currently used for subsequent analysis and diagnosis. However, these methods do not cut excessive time, labor, and subjectivity associated with manual intervention by a human operator. Generally, EDLV images have noncontiguous and ambiguous edge signal on some boundary regions. In this paper, we propose a new method for an automated detection of left ventricle (LV) boundaries in noncontiguous and ambiguous EDLV images. The proposed boundary detection scheme is based on a priori knowledge information and is divided into two steps. The first step is to detect EDLV boundary using ESLV boundary. The second step is to correct the detected EDLV boundary using the left ventricle (LV) shape information. We compared the proposed method with the manual method to detect the EDLV boundary. And through the experiments of the proposed method, we verified the usefulness of this method.