Cell culture evaluation system and method

A cell culture evaluation system comprising:

• a cell culture device that cultures a plurality of cell culture units while arrangement of the plurality of cell culture units is changed, the cell culture device having an arrangement position change portion that changes arrangement positions of the cell culture units with respect to other cell culture units within the cell culture device;
• and
• a cell quality evaluation device including a cell quality evaluation portion that performs image evaluation on qualities of the cell culture units based on images of the cell culture units and a cell arrangement position storage unit that stores respective arrangement positions of the plurality of cell culture units before and after the arrangement position change by the arrangement position change portion,
• wherein, the cell quality evaluation device further includes a microprocessor configured to:
• select a portion of the cell culture units among the plurality of cell culture units and performs image evaluation,
• identify, based on image evaluation cell culture units in the portion of cell culture units that do not satisfy predetermined conditions;
• specify cell culture units that have been arranged in a predetermined distance range from the cell culture units that do not satisfy the predetermined conditions to a point of time of the image evaluation based on the respective arrangement positions stored in the cell arrangement position storage unit and
• evaluate the specified cell culture units.