Cell observation apparatus, cell observation method, and program product
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorSatoshi Arai
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Abstract
A cell observation apparatus includes a cell recognition unit that recognizes a cellular region representing a cell from cell image data acquired by imaging the cell at a plurality of time points; and a cell parameter measurement unit that measures cell parameters characteristic of the cellular region recognized by the cell recognition unit. The apparatus also includes a cell viability determination unit that determines cell viability by comparing the cell parameters measured by the cell parameter measurement unit with thresholds.
Claims24
A cell observation apparatus comprising:
- a cell recognition unit that recognizes a cellular region representing a cell from cell image data acquired by imaging the cell at a plurality of time points;
- a cell parameter measurement unit that measures cell parameters characteristic of the cellular region recognized by the cell recognition unit;
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- a cell viability determination unit that determines cell viability by comparing the cell parameters measured by the cell parameter measurement unit with thresholds.
A program product, having a computer readable medium including programmed instructions for observing a cell in a cell observation apparatus, wherein the instructions, when executed by the cell observation apparatus, cause the cell observation apparatus to perform:
- recognizing a cellular region representing a cell from cell image data acquired by imaging the cell at a plurality of time points;
- measuring cell parameters characteristic of the cellular region recognized;
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- determining cell viability by comparing the cell parameters with thresholds.
A cell observation method for observing a cell in a cell observation apparatus that includes a culture unit which cultures the cell and an imaging unit which images the cell contained in the culture unit, the method comprising:
- recognizing a cellular region representing the cell from cell image data acquired by imaging, by the imaging unit, the cell cultured in the culture unit at a plurality of time points;
- measuring cell parameters characteristic of the cellular region recognized by the cell recognition unit;
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- determining cell viability by comparing the cell parameters with thresholds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.