Is spontaneous emission by a photoexcited atom a scattering process?

[KFC]

Suppose I have a two-level atom trapped in a certain area, initially in ground state. I have a light shining on it, the atom jump from ground state to the excited state and emission a photon spontaneously. Can I say this is a scattering process?

 

[alxm]

Yes. In the case of re-emission of the same frequency it's Rayleigh (elastic) scattering and if it's a different one (inelelastic) then it's Raman scattering.