INTEGRATED APPROACHES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING: INTERACTION OF TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMY AND ECOLOGY

Abstract

The principles of the formation of an integrated approach of detection, analysis and reproduction of multi-parameter optical information by engineering systems for the tasks of control and monitoring of the state of the ecological environment and related economic growth are considered. The review of information flows that a person "consumes" is presented - digital, audio, text, graphic, advertising and other video information. It was established that among all this variety of information flows that form engineering systems, there is one objectively relevant and most widespread - optical information in the form of images. Structural and logical schemes of design and architecture of photometric, polarization and laser engineering systems for detection and analysis of optical images are presented. An example of interdisciplinary integrated engineering (polarization-optical) differential diagnostics relevant for the fields of ecology and economy is given – blood polycrystalline films of healthy donors and patients with papillary thyroid cancer. The results and illustrations of a comparative analysis of medical information processing of optical traditional microscopic images of polycrystalline blood films of biological tissues of the thyroid gland and polarization maps, which are obtained using new technology for mapping azimuths and ellipticities, are presented. New information capabilities of digital analysis of polarization maps in the diagnosis of thyroid cancer have been demonstrated. It has been shown that intensity distribution histograms of traditional microscopic images cannot be used as diagnostic parameters. On the contrary, statistical characteristics polarization maps of polycrystalline blood films significantly depend on the patient’s health status and can be used as diagnostic markers. It is noted that modern laser engineering technologies are promising in the tasks of improving image quality by eliminating the diffuse background.