Fig. 2From: Three broad classifications of acute respiratory failure etiologies based on regional ventilation and perfusion by electrical impedance tomography: a hypothesis-generating studyComparisons of defect scores for ventilation (middle), perfusion (right) and combined (left) in the four groups. The control group was postoperative ICU patients without acute respiratory failure; PED group: patients with pulmonary embolism-related disease; DLD group: patients with diffuse lung involvement disease; FLD group: patients with focal lung involvement disease. The boxes mark the quartiles with median marked red, while the whiskers extend from the box out to the most extreme data value within 1.5 * the interquartile range of the sample. The red crosses are outliers. *P < 0.05Back to article page