{"id":296,"date":"2023-04-30T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websites.fraunhofer.de\/smart-sensing-insights\/?p=296"},"modified":"2025-10-29T21:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:38:06","slug":"7-reasons-to-use-digital-image-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websites.fraunhofer.de\/smart-sensing-insights\/7-reasons-to-use-digital-image-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Reasons to Use Digital Image Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8230;in your Histopathology Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever wondered if going digital is worth it? 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Don\u2018t let others beat you to the punch.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-gridlove-highlight-bg-color\">Increase chance of <strong>getting your paper accepted<\/strong> <\/mark><br><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-gridlove-highlight-bg-color\">by using latest digital technologies and AI<\/mark>.<br><br>When scoring manually, reviewers will challenge you and ask why no DIA was used.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6<\/td><td><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-gridlove-highlight-bg-color\"><strong>Eliminate Bias<\/strong>, Inter- and Intra-Observer Variance<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-gridlove-txt-color\">.<br><\/mark><br>Digital analysis will yield identical results regardless of time and stress.<br>It will not unconsciously change it\u2018s evaluation criteria over the course <br>of a larger analysis.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7<\/td><td><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-gridlove-highlight-bg-color\"><strong>Do not waste your talent<\/strong> and intelligence on tedious tasks.<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-gridlove-txt-color\"><br><\/mark><br>Let the computer collect the raw data. <br>You draw the conclusions and focus on complicated cases.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-gridlove-bg-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikaia.ai\">Download MIKAIA\u00ae now<\/a> and step up your research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Image copyright (featured image): Fraunhofer IIS \/ Paul Pulkert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered if going digital is worth it? 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