Automatic system for judging quality of cell
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorsNobuhiko Maiya, Yasujiro Kiyota, Takayuki Uozumi, Hirofumi Shiono
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Abstract
An automatic culture device 1 having an automatic quality determination system is equipped with an analysis program 12. The analysis program 12 extracts cell characteristics from a captured image of a cell by driving a characteristic quantity extraction program 13, which is an image processing program for extracting characteristics (characteristic quantities) of this cell. The quality of the cell is then determined from the extracted characteristic or a combination of a plurality of characteristics by driving an identification program 15 that determines the quality of a cell. This allows cell quality determination to be automated.
Claims8
An automatic system for determining the quality of a cell, comprising:
- a plurality of characteristic extraction means that extract the characteristics of a captured image of the cell;
- a plurality of quality determination means that determine the quality of the cell from an extracted characteristic or from a combination of a plurality of characteristics;
- an analysis recipe storage mean that stores combinations of the characteristic extraction means and the quality determination means as analysis recipes, which are used according to the type of the cell;
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- an analysis mean that selects the analysis recipe corresponding to the type of the cell from the analysis recipe storage mean, drives the characteristic extraction mean stored in that analysis recipe, extracts a characteristic of the cell, and then drives the quality determination mean stored in that analysis recipe and determines the quality of the cell.
An automatic system for determining the quality of a cell, comprising:
- a characteristic extraction mean that extracts a characteristic of a captured image of the cell;
- a plurality of quality determination means that determine the quality of the cell from an extracted characteristic or from a combination of a plurality of characteristics;
- an analysis recipe storage mean that stores, according to the type of the cell, combinations of the characteristic to be extracted by the characteristic extraction mean and the quality determination means to be used;
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- an analysis mean that selects the analysis recipe corresponding to the type of the cell from the analysis recipe storage mean, transfers the characteristic to be extracted by the characteristic extraction mean stored in that analysis recipe to the characteristic extraction mean, extracts a characteristic of the cell, and then drives the quality determination mean stored in that analysis recipe and determines the quality of the cell.
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