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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2009
Tamiyo Kobayashi, Kunitachi, JP;
Kosuke Takagi, Kawagoe, JP;
Yuichiro Matsuo, Hachioji, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cell image analysis apparatus and method for judging, quickly and with good reproducibility, the presence or absence of a membrane translocation reaction occurring in a cell owing to application of an arbitrary stimulus to the cell using a fluorescence microscope. The inventive apparatus has: an element acquiring as an image data a fluorescence microscopic image of a cell after the application of the stimulus; an element determining a region occupied by the cell in the fluorescence image of the cell; an element determining a contour line of the cell having a width of a predetermined number of pixels from a periphery of the region occupied by the cell; and an element judging the presence or absence of the membrane translocation reaction based on a brightness value on the contour line of the cell and a brightness value in an inside of the contour line of the cell.