Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nikon Corporation

Sapporo Medical University

Hideki Ito

Jun Akabane

Hiroyuki Tokuda

Yuki Nomura

Chiori Saito

Toshimitsu Nojima

Yuri Manabe

Suzuka Fujita

Seina Takahashi

Maki Shimizu

Keiji Gohara

Naoki Tashiro

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Toshimi Chiba

Yasuki Nagaoka

Ken Moro

Nobuo Hashimoto

Shoko Ryuen

Tomotaka Shinoda

Toshihiro Mitaka

Satoshi Mori

Masaaki Yanagisawa

Arata Ono

Yasunori Senshiki

Noboru Tanaka

Masakazu Taku

Nobuya Kawahata

Chihiro Tsukamoto

Hitoshi Suyama

Naoki Watanabe

Haruki Ota

Kenji Tonegawa

Yoshimasa Hyodo

Ryoko Mizuta

Satoshi Iyama

Sato Tsutomu

Shingo Takizawa

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Display screen with a graphical user interface

An image processing device can explicitly distinguish cells to be observed from cells other than those to be observed with a simple configuration. To this end, the image processing device includes a color information obtaining part obtaining at least hue from color information of each pixel of a color image, a detecting part detecting a mode value of the hue on a color space, a range setting part setting a predetermined range on the color space including the mode value of the hue detected by the detecting part as a target range, a changing part changing hue of a pixel included in the target range by virtually performing extension on the target range, and an information converting part converting color information of a pixel having hue not included in the target range into color information indicative of an achromatic color.

Image processing device and medium storing image processing program

An inspection apparatus includes an imaging device and an image processing device. The imaging device photographs a specimen and outputs a color image of the specimen to the image processing device. The image processing device subjects the color image of the specimen to negative-positive reversal. After detecting a mode value of the hue the color image having been subjected to negative-positive reversal, the image processing device changes the hue of the color image in accordance with a difference between a boundary value of two predefined hues and the detected mode value. In accordance with the change of the hue, a plurality of target pixels different in the saturation is extracted and the saturation and the intensity of each pixel are changed, or the gradation of each pixel is converted so that the plurality of target pixels becomes most distant from one another in a color space.

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