本文是关于中国图象工程的年度文献综述系列之三。考虑到目前我国图象工程的研究，图象技术的应用和有关文献的分布情况，我们对1997年发表在国内15种有关图象工程的重要中文期刊上的近300篇有关学术研究和技术应用论文根据其主要内容进行了分类和统计，并进行了分析讨论。这个工作概括反映了图象工程在我国发展的现状，对从事图象工程研究和图象技术应用的人员查阅有关文献提供了方便，并对期刊编者和论文作者有参考作用。

This is the third in the survey series of yearly bibliographies on image engineering in China. Considering the current status of the researches on image engineering and the applications of image techniques as well as the distribution of related publications in China, near 300 research and technique references are selected from more than 1400 papers published in a set of 15 Chinese journals, in which papers concerning image engineering are relatively concentrated. These references are classified into different categories according to their contents. An analysis and a discussion of the statistics made on the classification results are also presented. This work shows a general and up-to-date picture of the progresses of image engineering in China, supplies a convenient means of literature searching for readers doing researches and/or applications in this field, and provides a useful reference for the editors of journals and potential authors of papers.