Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090015911 | Motor-operated microscope system and software for controlling motor-operated microscopes - A motor-operated microscope system has a motor-operated microscope section including an illumination optical system, an electric stage, an image forming optical system having an objective lens and an image forming lens, and an image pickup device; a housing; a control device having a screen display and an arithmetic processing section; and software displaying an operating condition setting screen of the motor-operated microscope section on the screen display and controlling an operation of the motor-operated microscope section in accordance with a set condition. The operating condition setting screen has, on one screen, a setting section for an exposure condition with the image pickup means; a setting section for a focusing condition with the objective lenses; an objective interchange setting section; a setting section for wavelength and luminance of illumination light; a setting section for an image pickup range; a display section for a picked-up image; and an operation commanding section for the motor-operated microscope section. | 01-15-2009 |
20090196482 | APPARATUS, A METHOD AND SOFTWARE FOR ANALYZING A CELL IMAGE - There are provided a cell image analysis apparatus or method for judging the presence or absence of a membrane translocation reaction quickly and with good reproducibility using a fluorescence microscope. The inventive apparatus is a cell image analysis apparatus for judging the presence or absence of a membrane translocation reaction occurring in a cell owing to application of an arbitrary stimulus to the cell, characterized by comprising: a means that acquires as an image data a fluorescence microscopic image of a cell after the application of the stimulus; a means that determines a region occupied by the cell in the fluorescence image of the cell; a means that determines a contour line of the cell which has a width of a predetermined number of pixels from a periphery of the region occupied by the cell; and a means that judges 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. | 08-06-2009 |
20100172569 | CELL IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS, CELL IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A cell image analysis apparatus includes a threshold value storage unit storing a cell nucleus threshold value, a fragmented cell nucleus threshold value, and a cell nucleus area threshold value in advance, an image input unit inputting a cell image captured from a cell stained with a fluorescent substance, a cell nucleus region extraction unit extracting, from the input cell image, a region having an area equal to or larger than the cell nucleus area threshold value from among regions having a luminance value equal to or larger than the cell nucleus threshold value as a cell nucleus region, and a fragmented cell nucleus region extraction unit extracting, from the cell nucleus region, a region having a luminance value equal to or larger than the fragmented cell nucleus threshold value as a fragmented cell nucleus region. | 07-08-2010 |
20100232674 | CELL-IMAGE ANALYZING APPARATUS - A cell-image analyzing apparatus includes: a cell imaging system having an imaging optical system and an image sensor, for imaging cells that exist in a vessel; a cell-image analyzer for automatically analyzing a predetermined characteristic quantity on the cells using a cell image captured via the cell imaging system, upon delimiting cell regions; and a cell-contour emphasizing system for automatically emphasizing contour portions of images of the cells that exist in the vessel, which is arranged at a shot position of the cell imaging system. | 09-16-2010 |
20110019897 | CELL-IMAGE ANALYZING APPARATUS - A cell-image analyzing apparatus is intended to analyze, using a cell image, a cell collective that forms a colony, and is provided with a computer. The cell-image analyzing apparatus has an image analysis software that makes the computer function as a boundary element extracting means for extracting boundary elements of subjects upon analyzing the cell image; a possible colony region determining means for determining, as a possible colony region, a region surrounded by boundary elements of subjects and having a size greater than a first criterion value; and a colony region determining means for determining, in the possible colony region, a region containing more than a predetermined number of clustered regions each being surrounded by boundary elements of subjects and having a size smaller than a second criterion value, as a colony region. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019898 | CELL-IMAGE ANALYZING APPARATUS - A cell-image analyzing apparatus is provided with a computer, for classifying cells using plural channels of fluorescence cell images on a specimen that contains plural kinds of cells and is stained with specific fluorochromes in accordance with the kinds of cells. The cell image analyzing apparatus has an image analysis software that makes the computer function as a region delimiting mean for delimiting cell nucleus regions and cytoplasm regions in each of the plural channels of fluorescence cell images; a morphologic characteristic detecting means for detecting a morphologic characteristic on the cell nucleus regions or the cytoplasm regions delimited via the region delimiting means; and a cell classifying means for classifying the cells into kinds in accordance with the morphologic characteristic on the cell nucleus regions or the cytoplasm regions detected via the morphologic characteristic detecting means. | 01-27-2011 |