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Cell morphology image processing and corrections

  • US 10,641,706 B2
  • Filed: 05/24/2016
  • Issued: 05/05/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image processing device, comprising:

  • a display control unit that displays a cell morphology image capturing a cell morphology in a tissue section of a biological object stained with a staining reagent on a display unit;

    an input unit that inputs a signal according to an operation of a user;

    an acquisition unit that acquires a virtual cell distribution image from the cell morphology image, the virtual cell distribution image depicting one or more cell display elements of a plurality of cell display elements, according to the signal from the input unit, and representing a specific portion of a cell in the cell morphology image by the one or more cell display elements, and the cell morphology image is displayed on the display unit;

    an arithmetic unit that obtains a characteristic value relevant to at least one type of appearance characteristic of the specific portion of the cell, wherein at least one type of appearance characteristic corresponds to the cell display element of the cell morphology image; and

    a correction unit that corrects the virtual cell distribution image to generate a cell distribution image by setting a cell display element of which the characteristic value is at least out of an allowable value range or within a prohibition value range to be in a state of being deleted from the virtual cell distribution image or being unadopted, in the one or more cell display elements.

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