Verifying Image Authenticity With Image Integrity Checker
Scientific imaging is now faster, more digital, and easier to share than ever—but that also makes it easier for image integrity to be questioned. Even simple actions like cropping, adjusting contrast, or re-saving files can remove critical metadata and create doubts during peer review or regulatory review. For instance, a published review found that over 20% of electrophoresis-image papers showed signs of manipulation.
In this Teach Me in 10 episode, Phil Beckett, a Discovery Imaging Field Application Specialist at Cytiva, explains why gel and blot images are among the most scrutinized data types in modern research—and how secure authentication methods can generate a unique digital fingerprint to confirm raw image authenticity, strengthen traceability, and support confident submission.
Watch this episode to discover:
- Common integrity red flags that trigger reviewer concerns, delays, or rejections
- How image authentication can verify raw gel and blot data using secure digital fingerprinting
- Best practices to protect image metadata, improve traceability, and publish with confidence
- Amersham™ ImageQuant™ 800 Western Blot Imaging Systems. Flexible gel and blot imaging platform that allows you to easily image low- and high-abundance proteins automatically.
- ImageQuant™ TL Analysis Software. Analysis software for gel and blot images, multiwell plates, and colony counting applications.
- Amersham™ Typhoon™ Biomolecular Imagers. Versatile, high-performance laser scanners for sensitive and quantitative imaging applications.
- From Photons to Publications. Principles of scientific imaging and developments in image integrity checking.
- Cytiva Image Integrity Checker Software. Cytiva Image Integrity Checker is software designed to validate image-data authenticity. It is useful for researchers and journal editors to determine original images and authenticate submitted.
