[Computer analysis of the contours of the large intestine for the purpose of disease diagnosis].

The authors put forward a new method of structural analysis of images, based on an automatic search for regularities of signs of colonic diseases in the shape of contours of colonic segments. The regularities obtained were used as diagnostic signs. The results of analysis of the shape of contours of the 1st (cecum and the ascending colon) segment and the 5th (the rectum) segment in 83 patients. The results of CT diagnosis coincided with verified clinical conclusions.