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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2019
General Incorporated Association Hakuakai, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Shimada, Tokyo, JP;
GENERAL INCORPORATED ASSOCIATION HAKUAKAI, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A whole slide image creation device including a first image-capture control unit for capturing an image-capture region for a pathological specimen at a first magnification and a second magnification; a storage unit for storing a first training image corresponding to the first magnification and a second training image corresponding to the second magnification; a calculation unit for pattern matching between a first image captured at the first magnification and the first training image to calculate a first degree-of-match, and between a second image captured at the second magnification and the second training image to calculate a second degree-of-match; a magnification selection unit for selecting the first magnification or the second magnification for capturing the entire pathological specimen on the basis of the first degree-of-match and the second degree-of-match; and a second image-capture control unit for capturing the entire pathological specimen at the selected magnification for each segmented region.