Did you know you can write your own programs and scripts to examine and manipulate images? Image processing is critical to many disciplines, ranging from health and biology to art history and astronomy.Did you know you can write your own programs and scripts to examine and manipulate images? Image processing is critical to many disciplines, ranging from health and biology to art history and astronomy.With code you can do your work in a much more efficient manner, whether you need to count bacteria on a plate, find pulmonary nodules in patient’s lungs, or examine trends over time in museum catalogues.