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The paper describes the up-to-date interdisciplinary research
that has been established in Slovakia in recent years. It requires
the close cooperation between specialists from medical fields as
well as technicians as it deals with creating the supporting tool
for physicians to evaluate a patient’s diagnosis. The research is
based on the need of doctors to create a system reliable enough,
that would help them to assess the health status of human
respiratory system. This task first comprises the design of a
working station that could serve for capturing series of images
(video sequences) of investigated sample obtained by doctors,
including a light microscope and a high-speed camera with
appropriate software. Then is comprises also development of
sophisticated methodologies for analysis of obtained images and
detection of objects of interest within them, and finally the
evaluation of behavior of investigated structures which
determines the health status of a patient. This interdisciplinary
cooperation is as unique as it is the only one of this kind in our
country as there does not exist any other way how to evaluate the
health status of human respiratory system using smart
technological approach.
