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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2008
Yoshiko Yamashita, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Okajima, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Sato, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A breast cancer pathological image diagnosis support system for supporting a diagnosis of breast cancer based on a pathological image is provided. The breast cancer pathological image diagnosis support system includes an image obtaining unit which obtains an HE-stained image and an IHC image as pathological images to be diagnosed; an information obtaining unit which obtains information of a tumor area in the HE-stained image; a matching unit which calculates a matching position of the HE-stained image and the IHC image obtained by the image obtaining unit; a specifying unit which specifies a tumor area in the IHC image based on the information of the tumor area in the HE-stained image obtained by the information obtaining unit and information of the matching position calculated by the matching unit; and a calculating unit which calculates a staining positive cell content rate in the tumor area based on information of the tumor area in the IHC image specified by the specifying unit.