[La1n]

Is ML here needed? When I was working in a lab we used the opensource ImageJ for counting cells. It seems like it'd do a great job here too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageJ

[flooo]

A colleague of mine recently published a paper on ML-based cell counting for human cancer cells. It's open access and available here https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/11/4912

[geoduck14]

Yes. Yes. 1000 times YES!

Why are we having this discussion? Why are people in HN amazed at this? What is wrong with the world where something like THIS is impressive?!?

[wyldfire]

It's not that it's impressive as a novel approach. It's impressive because they found a market with a need and delivered a product to meet that need. It's simple enough that it seems like an obvious need and yet complex enough that there's not that much competition.

ImageJ is suited to the needs of scientists and engineers. Perhaps one could craft a workflow using ImageJ but it would be much less integrated than the mobile app from the article.

[kyawzazaw]

Coz this company is making money. And the customer is satisified.