[Automatization of the workplace of radiologist].

The authors propose and implement a roentgenologist's IBM PC/AT-compatible computer-aided automatic working place designed for the digital processing and analysis of medical introscopic images. The two-levelled architecture of APM-BP software allows one to optimize the speed of computations and to apply as computer technologies the know-how and experience gained in solving specific problems in the analysis of informative features of medical images. A procedure for the digital processing of linear pulmonary tomograms by using the designed working place in order to solve the problems of preclinical diagnosis of peripheral lung cancer is described.

[The digital processing of tomograms in the diagnosis of peripheral lung cancer].

The paper is devoted to the description of the methods and results of digital processing of linear tomograms of the lungs in 347 patients with "small" lesions (2 cm in diameter in 67%), densitometry of abnormal lesions was performed in 167 of them. Roentgenomorphological comparisons were done in 326 cases, where diagnosis was verified at operation. Digital processing of images and densitometry provided additional diagnostic information.

[Radiothermometry in the differential diagnosis of peripheral cancer of the lung].

Methods of radiothermometry for differential diagnosis of peripheral lung formations using a radiometer operating within 10 cm-wave band were worked out. Altogether 59 patients (of them 45 men) were investigated. Temperature was measured on the chest surface in the area of a lung pathological formation projected on it.