Applications Author: Robert Finn
SIDEBAR : COMPANIES SERVING THE IMAGE-ANALYSIS MARKET
Improvements in computer-based image analysis are making the technique a routine tool of the biomedical laboratory. The hardware for obtaining digital images is getting more sophisticated (L. Krumenaker, The Scientist, Oct. 3, 1994, page 17), the software for processing and analyzing the images is getting easier to use, and scientists are finding ever more creative ways to use them.
Surveys indicate that fully 30 percent of scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health use some version of the technique in their work, according to "Fundamentals of Image Analysis," a useful primer written by Peter Ramm. Ramm is president of Imaging Research Inc., an image-analysis company based at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, where he is an associate professor in the department of psychology. (This 1995 booklet is available for free by contacting the company at Brock University, 500 ...
