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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2018
Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshinori Ohno, Kyoto, JP;
SHIMADZU CORPORATION, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A microfluidic-device observation apparatusfor observing a specimen present in a plurality of flow pathstoarranged in a microfluidic deviceis provided with: an imaging unitconfigured to acquire an image of the microfluidic device; an extraction pixel selection unitconfigured to select extraction pixels from a plurality of pixels by a certain criterion based on luminance values of the plurality of pixels constituting the acquired image; a flow path identification unitconfigured to locate the plurality of flow pathstoincluded in the image; a specimen-featured-pixels detection unitconfigured to detect a certain number or more of extraction pixels consecutively present inside of the identified plurality of flow pathstoas a specimen-featured-pixels group; and a statistical feature value calculation unitconfigured to calculate a statistical feature value of the specimen based on the number of specimen-featured-pixels group and/or the number of the extraction pixels constituting each of the specimen-featured-pixels group.