[Optical image processing in the analysis of the structural elements of the x-ray picture of the adult respiratory distress syndrome].

The paper is devoted to the potentialities of aposterior image processing in adult patients with the respiratory distress-syndrome (RDS). Thirty one cases of optical processing of radiograms were analyzed. Pulmonary changes were absent in 10 persons of the control group. The authors described spatial and frequency characteristics of the structural elements of an x-ray picture of RDS (change of interstitial tissue, the state of pulmonary markings, micro-atelectases, edematous and small hemorrhagic parts). The localization of disease is mostly peripheral. The authors paid attention to probable criteria of differential diagnosis between RDS and other conditions, manifesting themselves in clinically acute parenchymatous respiratory insufficiency (lung edema, acute pneumonia, thromboembolism of the pulmonary artery).