Kurashiki Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha

Osaka Bioscience Institute

Shuuichi Taneda

Naomi Eguchi

Hideaki Hikawa

Yasuhisa Sakurai

In a method for automatically detecting degenerated regions in many stained thin section specimens (), color region information is obtained on a degenerated region and on a non-degenerated region on image data of a standard specimen in a stained thin section slide. Next, color region information is obtained on a non-degenerated region on image data of a specimen. Next, the image data of the specimen is compared with the image data of the standard specimen to calculate a color correction quantity to match tone and brightness of the non-degenerated region in the specimen with the counterparts in the non-degenerated region in the standard specimen, and the image data of the specimen is corrected with the color correction quantity. Next, a degenerated region is extracted in the corrected image data of the specimen based on the color region information in the standard specimen.

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Shuuichi Taneda