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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2007
Kosuke Takagi, Saitama, JP;
Yuichiro Matsuo, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Shimada, Kanagawa, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Cells showing specific characters can be separated from noise, extracted, and analyzed, through processing of a cell image. It is intended to provide a cell image processor () comprising: a characteristic quantity measuring section () which processes a cell image obtained by photographing cells to measure characteristic quantities of respective cells in the cell image; a characteristic quantity distribution forming section () which forms the distribution of the thus measured characteristic quantities; a group forming section () which divides cells having continuously distributed characteristic quantities into groups in the thus formed characteristic quantity distribution; and a specific cell extracting section () which extracts cells having characteristic quantities falling within a predetermined range at both ends of a characteristic quantity distribution in each group, as specific cells.