[Early markers of hypoxia in patients having respiratory system diseases caused to dust].

Assessing state of various hemostasis levels in patients having pulmonary diseases caused by dust, in accordance with respiratory failure severity, enables to diagnose early changes confirming hypoxia. The most reliable parameters are changes in vascular and platelet hemostasis and in fibrinolysis system.

[Efficiency of early diagnosis and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in industrial workers (prospective observation results)].

Examination of workers engaged into major industrial enterprises of Novosibirsk demonstrated high prevalence of bronchial obstruction in individuals contacting industrial aerosol. The workers with long length of service proved high level of tobacco addiction and marked psychologic dependence on smoking. Based on the data obtained, the authors specified a program for early diagnosis and prevention of occupational bronchitis among the workers of major industrial enterprises.

[State of vascular-platelet hemostasis and plasma-coagulation hemostasis in patients with occupational bronchitis and workers under high occupational risk].

Evaluation of various hemostasis subunits helps to specify mechanisms underlying influence of industrial aerosol on respiratory tract. The most important events are changes in vascular and platelet hemostasis, fibrinolysis system in individuals exposed to highly fibrogenic dust.

[Risk factors and rehabilitation of workers with COPD in major industrial enterprise].

The authors present epidemiologic characteristics of COLD in workers of major atomic machinery enterprise. The article covers high prevalence of this disease on the enterprise, evaluation of connection between occupational and non-occupational risk factors and COLD development. Constant broncholytic therapy in the occupational health office caused significant improvement of clinical and functional parameters and decrease in transitory disablement duration.

Image-based prediction of imaging and vision performance.

Some scenarios require performance estimation of an imaging or a computer vision system prior to its actual operation such as in system design, as well as in tasks of high risk or cost. To predict the performance, we propose an image-based approach that accounts for underlying image-formation processes while using real image data. We give a detailed description of image formation from scene photons to image gray levels.