Imaging

Imaging science is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the generation, collection, duplication, analysis, modification, and visualization of images,[1] including imaging things that the human eye cannot detect.

As an evolving field it includes research and researchers from physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, computer vision, computer science, and perceptual psychology.

The foundation of imaging science as a discipline is the "imaging chain" – a conceptual model describing all of the factors which must be considered when developing a system for creating visual renderings (images).

For example, some will include the "source" of the energy which "illuminates" or interacts with the subject of the image.

Imaging technology materials and methods include:

Comparison of two imaging modalities— optical tomography (A, C) and computed tomography (B, D)—as applied to a Lego minifigure
False-color image from a thermographic camera