A powerful color-based imaging technique is making the jump from remote sensing to the operating room, with the efforts of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). A technique called hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has frequently been used in satellites because of its superior ability to identify objects by color. Researchers wrote new software for a device called a microarrayer, which, when combined with HSI in a medical imaging application, could allow a surgeon to spot oxygen-depleted tissues and cancer cells, as determined by their color.
"Scientists and engineers can create a custom slide with the exact colors representing the chemical makeup they want the HSI devices to detect," said NIST physicist Jeeseong Hwang. "It could be a good way to make sure the HSI devices for medical imaging perform correctly so that surgeons are able to see all of a tumor or diseased tissue when operating on a patient."
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Also: An engineer at NASA developed software for use in Earth remote sensing applications, which then evolved into a product to improve diagnostic imaging analysis .
