The overall idea for the ASTONISH project is to make things visible that cannot be made visible with existing systems or existing imaging modalities. For this, the project will focus on innovative optical filters, highly sensitive NIR sensors, automated multimodal and hyperspectral image analysis and advanced visualizations. The underlying concept for the project is captured in its acronym: Smart Optical Imaging and Sensing for Health. By optimally exploiting the spectral imaging properties of visible light and beyond, extra information is captured and combined in a smart way to deliver solutions that are less obtrusive, smaller, lower cost, more reliable and easier to use than state of the art systems.
