Focus on Vision: Visualizing Contamination in Food Tanks, Detecting Colorectal Cancer | December 18, 2025
In this episode of Focus on Vision, Justine Murphy covers the following news stories:
- A team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV (Freising, Germany) has designed an experimental machine vision-based system for cleaning industrial tanks that uses fluorescence to uncover contamination. Related: Next-Generation Tank Cleaning: Machine Vision, AI, and Custom Nozzles Enhance Efficiency
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Germany-based machine vision and robotics specialist Vision On Line (Langenselbold, Germany) developed the new system to inspect cooling fans for trucks and heavy equipment during the manufacturing stage.
- A team at the Champalimaud Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal) has designed an imaging approach to detecting colorectal cancer that uses a fiber optic probe to excite tissue samples in a multiplexed fashion. Related: AI-Assisted Imaging Noninvasively Discerns Tumors
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Time Stamps:
In this episode of Focus On Vision:
- 0:00: Intro
- 0:19: Fraunhofer IVV has developed a machine vision-based system for cleaning industrial tanks, using adaptive nozzles and in-line visual intelligence to improve resource use and cleaning accuracy.
- 1:12: Germany-based machine vision and robotics specialist Vision On Line developed a new system to inspect cooling fans for trucks and heavy equipment during the manufacturing stage.
- 2:15: With its ability to accurately differentiate malignant from benign tissue in real time, an AI-assisted autofluorescence lifetime imaging technique is poised to help improve cancer diagnosis and treatments.
- 3:21: Outro
About the Author
Justine Murphy
Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Endeavor Business Media's Digital Infrastructure Group. She is a multiple award-winning writer and editor with more 20 years of experience in newspaper publishing as well as public relations, marketing, and communications. For nearly 10 years, she has covered all facets of the optics and photonics industry as an editor, writer, web news anchor, and podcast host for an internationally reaching magazine publishing company. Her work has earned accolades from the New England Press Association as well as the SIIA/Jesse H. Neal Awards. She received a B.A. from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.