ANALYSIS OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEDICAL DATA USING PICTOGRAPHICS "CHERNOFF FACES"

The use of graphics in research works not only increases the speed of information transmission and increases the level of its understanding, but also contributes to the development of such important for professionals in any industry qualities of intuition and creative thinking. Methods of cognitive graphics significantly extend the capabilities of specialists any field of knowledge to identify the most informative parameters when processing the extensive data base and solving specific problems; detect sometimes radically new facts, radically changing their views known. A separate direction of cognitive graphics forms in medicine. Visualization of the current state of the object and the characteristic features provide continuous control over the condition of groups of persons or individual. This work focuses on the identification of psychological and physiological characteristics of patients with various forms of bronchial asthma using the methods of visualization of multidimensional data. Thus, the object of study are the physiological data of patients with bronchial asthma. Subject of research are the methods of cognitive graphics, namely, the methods of information presentation in the form of graphic images. The aim of this work is to study the possibilities of applying the methods of cognitive graphics in the study of the physiological characteristics of patients with various forms of bronchial asthma. In the end, work has revealed a number of regularities for various forms of bronchial asthma using the methods of data visualization.