Episode 233: Michael Fanous - Reimagining Digital Slide Scanning With Scanimus

So now you're moving kind of beyond this initial concept towards things like fluorescence, cytology, blood smears, pap smears.

I guess what your vision for Scanimus is this, it becomes a scanner or are you kind of building this sort of broader computational imaging platform?

Right.

So that's a great question.

So at this point, using the words microscope or using the word scanner, that really has to do with vision.

Are you adding motors? Are you adding activation? Are you adding AI? And so I think the microscope is kind of this underrated, extraordinary work of engineering that once it's coupled with AI, with motors, and you have the ability now to automate, to self-improve, to change also the configuration this is when it's going to flourish like nothing else in my estimation okay because any kind of biosensing from tissue below you have tissue cells organelles genetics biomolecules if you have of course dealing with different modalities but that can all be investigated using a form of microscopy and i think when you add ai digitization motors and then ultimately automation, self-improvement, continual scanning.

And the models are training themselves and playing around in actually intelligent forms of probing.

I think the future for this is really exhilarating.

Yeah, for sure.

Probably things that you or I haven't even thought of yet where this could go.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

That's exactly.

Yeah.

So great.

There's a great room for expansion.

And I think it's certain things that we can't even imagine that the microscope will go around finding things, scientific discoveries, I think.

And you're seeing this.

We're not the only ones.

I think you're going to have a whole new wave of innovation.

We're revolving around something like microscopy with motors, actuators, and automation, ultimately.

Okay, that's interesting.

I like that.