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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2014
Screen Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Akihiro Nomura, Kyoto, JP;
SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
By deleting a small area from an initial boundary image, a provisional boundary image is obtained (Step S). A thinning processing is performed on the provisional boundary image to shape the image, and a thickening processing is performed on the thinned image to obtain a mask image (Steps Sto S). By masking the initial boundary image with the mask image, an updated provisional boundary image is obtained (Step S). In the updated provisional boundary image, end points adjacent to each other are connected (Step S). By repeating Steps Sto S, a broken boundary is repaired. As a result, even if a boundary of a cell colony is blurred, an area of the cell colony can be specified easily and efficiently.