Volker Brunsthe central MIKAIA® learning portal
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(note: in February 2024 MICAIA was renamed to MIKAIA®)
MIKAIA University is the central MIKAIA® learning portal. Here you can find various app notes and video tutorials that describe typical MIKAIA® workflows either from a technical or medical perspective. The underlying AI technologies are described in our scientific publications. The latest software changes are documented in the MIKAIA® Changelog.
As we are continuously adding more content, please check back frequently or subscribe to the MIKAIA® newsletter, where we announce newly released app notes.
Apps & AIs
MIKAIA® 2.4 (released Sep 2025) includes 20 apps, 10 of which work for both brightfield and fluorescent scans.
The AI Author App and Plug-in your own AI App can be used to develop additional user-specific apps.
More details, including a description of each app, are available here.
MIKAIA® is for Research Use Only (RUO).
Frequently Asked Questions
Navigating a flexible digital pathology and spatial biology image analysis software like MIKAIA® can bring up many questions — perhaps even before you get started. If our FAQs don’t answer your question, don’t hesitate to drop us a line.
First Steps
If you just installed MIKAIA® and want to get started, this blog post will guide you through the essentials: MIKAIA® Introduction & First Steps
MIKAIA University App Notes & Concepts
MIKAIA University App Notes are blog articles, where we describe a particular MIKAIA® app or a medical use case in a step-by-step fashion. They illustrate how MIKAIA® can be used to make discoveries or automate quantitative analysis in Digital Pathology & Spatial Biology.
We release new content regularly – here are the latest additions:
MIKAIA® Editions
Don’t worry about selecting which apps you want to purchase. You do not need to select each individual app. Currently, three feature sets are available:
- MIKAIA® lite (free)
- MIKAIA® studio
- MIKAIA® studio + AI App Bundle
If you’d like to try out the MIKAIA® apps on a temporary basis or request a quote, please feel free to email us at mikaia@iis.fraunhofer.de.
User Manual
Download the detailed 100+ pages user manual:
It is also included in the free MIKAIA® installer (download here) and available from within MIKAIA® by clicking “User Manual” in the main “Help” menu.
MIKAIA University Video Tutorials
These and further videos are available in the MIKAIA® YouTube playlist.
Workflow: How to creat a new AI with the AI Author App and then batch-analyze an entire dataset.
Michaela Benz
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