1. Hardware used in domestic CMMs does not meet modern requirements for medical devices of that type. 2. Software used in the majority of domestic and foreign CMM implements elementary methods of imaging, recording, and archiving of data. Automated diagnosis of deviations from norm is usually performed using elementary decisive rules of the logical type, which do not take into account the interrelation of parameters. These decisive rules approximate domains of pathology classes in the form of multidimensional parallelepipeds (hyperparallelepipeds) with sides parallel to the axes of coordinates of the multidimensional space of parameters. However, it is obvious that these domains have rather complicated shapes because of the interrelation of parameters, so that such an approximation is too rough. 3. Methods of signal processing used in modern CMM are usually heuristic, whereas achievements of modern radio engineering, communication theory, and applied cybernetics in the detection and processing of signals remain almost completely unused. 4. The majority of currently available CMM do not keep patient records, narcosis cards, etc. Besides, software used in these CMM does not operate in the interactive mode providing the on-line use of reference databases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]