How to Use Multispectral Imaging in Medicine?

Abstract

 Multispectral imaging is an excellent solution to color problems in medicine, and will have significant impacts in so many aspects of medicine that the realization of individual improvement forms a complicated network with many dead ends. Based on the understanding of principles from a marketing viewpoint appropriate for the chaotic medical field, two promising medical applications of multispectral imaging are proposed; digital images with spectral reflectance for each pixel, and digital images that are very accurate reproductions of real objects. The first technology will lead to new morphological diagnostic methods more powerful than human visual perception alone, while the second advance will lead to a major improvement in the diagnostic reliability of digital color images and wider medical adoption of digital technology. The former will require considerable investment but will provide significant improvements in diagnostic ability particularly for rare diseases, while the latter will provide practical and general improvements in medicine at relatively low cost.