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
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