Can image analysis provide information useful in chemistry?

Images can contain chemical information and many chemical methods can generate image data. For an efficient extraction of chemical data from images, data analysis techniques are necessary. It is a great advantage to be able to work on multivariate images. Many imaging techniques allow the extraction of chemical information. Inorganic analytical chemistry seems to have the longest tradition here, but organic chemistry and biochemistry may soon be catching up. Also large data arrays from non‐imaging techniques can be combined with image analysis in a useful way, provided certain conditions are fulfilled.