Image Analysis - Digital Image Analysis

Digital Image Analysis

Digital Image Analysis is when a computer or electrical device automatically studies an image to obtain useful information from it. Note that the device is often a computer but may also be an electrical circuit, a digital camera or a mobile phone. The applications of digital image analysis are continuously expanding through all areas of science and industry, including:

• medicine, such as detecting cancer in an MRI scan.
• microscopy, such as counting the germs in a swab.
• remote sensing, such as detecting intruders in a house, and producing land cover/land use maps.
• astronomy, such as calculating the size of a planet.
• materials science, such as determining if a metal weld has cracks.
• machine vision, such as to automatically count items in a factory conveyor belt.
• security, such as detecting a person's eye color or hair color.
• robotics, such as to avoid steering into an obstacle.
• optical character recognition, such as automatic license plate detection.
• assay micro plate reading, such as detecting where a chemical was manufactured.
• metallography, such as determining the mineral content of a rock sample.
• defense