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Not so long ago, if you had a medical complaint, doctors had to open you up to see what it was. These days sophisticated imaging techniques save you the risk and pain of an operation. Chris Budd and Cathryn Mitchell look at the maths that is responsible for these medical techniques, and also for much of the digital revolution.

New technology has provided us with some amazing images - satellite images, medical images, even images beamed back from Mars. Julian Stander tells us about the increasing role of statistics in interpreting them.