---
title: 'Episode 233: Michael Fanous - Reimagining Digital Slide Scanning With Scanimus'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-233-michael-fanous-reimagining-digital-slide-scanning-with-scanimus'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2026-09-21'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/s8wfyxknfmbxpbah/Michael_Fanous89iws.mp3'
---

# Episode 233: Michael Fanous - Reimagining Digital Slide Scanning With Scanimus

Today my guest is Michael Fanous, Founder and CEO of Scanimus What we discuss with Michael: From Bioengineering to Pathology Scanimus origin story Explaining motion blur Continuous scanning explained How to build trust with Pathologists Why digitization matters Designing for real users Ideal use cas

## Summary

Today my guest is Michael Fanous, Founder and CEO of Scanimus

What we discuss with Michael:

- From Bioengineering to Pathology

- Scanimus origin story

- Explaining motion blur

- Continuous scanning explained

- How to build trust with Pathologists

- Why digitization matters

- Designing for real users

- Ideal use cases for Scanimus

- Handling skepticism and misconceptions

- The intersection of scientist and entrepreneur

- Looking to the future

Links for this episode:

[InVision from Cision Vision](https://demo.cisionvision.com/)

[International Collective of Technical Professionals Conference Registration](https://umcgresearch.org/w/first-international-conference-of-technical-professionals-in-the-field-of-pathology-anatomy-and-forensic-medicine)

[The Path to PathA](http://www.thepathtopatha.com/)

[Pathologists' Assistant Shadowing Network](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14605997/)

[Health Podcast Network](https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

[ LabVine Learning](http://bit.ly/labvine)

[Dress A Med scrubs](https://dressamed.com/?rfsn=5044297.cb03eb&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=5044297.cb03eb)

[Scanimus](https://www.scanimus.ai/)

[_Not Quite a Microscope, Not Quite a Scanner, And Pathologists Love It_](https://thepathologist.com/issues/2026/articles/may/not-quite-a-microscope-not-quite-a-scanner-and-pathologists-love-it/)

[_BlurryScope enables compact, cost-effective scanning microscopy for HER2 scoring using deep learning on blurry images_](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-025-01882-x)

People of Pathology Podcast:

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