Apparatus and method for analyzing a bodily sample

Apparatus for use with a bodily sample that has been stained with at least one stain, the apparatus comprising:

• a digital camera;
• and
• at least one computer processor configured:
• to drive the digital camera to acquire, for each of a plurality of imaging fields of the stained bodily sample, three or more digital images, at least one of the images being a brightfield image acquired under brightfield lighting conditions, and at least two of the images being fluorescent images acquired under fluorescent lighting conditions, with each of the fluorescent images being acquired using respective first and second filters, which are different from each other;
• to perform image processing on the digital images, by extracting visual classification features from each of the three or more digital images;
• to identify one or more entities that are contained within the bodily sample, based upon the image processing;
• and
• to generate an output based upon the one more entities that are identified as being contained within the sample.