Japan Science and Technology Agency

Shinsuke Ohnuki

Koichi Watanabe

Satoru Nogami

Shuhei Ota

Yoshikazu Ohya

Shigeyuki Kawano

A cell monitoring device includes an outline detecting section that detects edge pixels from a cell image in a captured image of cells arranged in a single layer and generates an edge image including the detected edge pixels; a pigmented region detecting section that detects pixels of a pigmented region of the cell image in the captured image, and generates a pigmented region image including the detected pixels of the pigmented region; and an image merging section that, in a merged image obtained by overlaying the edge image and the pigmented region image together, detects a cell image region and a background image region in the captured image based on the pixel intensity variance and thus detects the cell image region in the captured image.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shinsuke Ohnuki