Image processing device, cell-cluster recognition apparatus, cell-cluster recognition method, and cell-cluster recognition program
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorHideya ARAGAKI
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Abstract
Provided is an image processing device including: a processor comprising hardware, the processor configured to: smooth a brightness value of a cell image including a plurality of cell clusters each including a plurality of cells so as to generate a smoothed image in which a gap existing between the cells in each of the cell clusters is filled in; binarize the smoothed image into a background region and a non-background region of each cell cluster; and segment the non-background region of the binarized smoothed image into a region for each of the cell clusters.
Claims19
An image processing device comprising:
- a processor comprising hardware, the processor configured to:
- smooth a brightness value of a cell image including a plurality of cell clusters each including a plurality of cells so as to generate a smoothed image in which a gap existing between the cells in each of the cell clusters is filled in;
- binarize the smoothed image into a background region and a non-background region of each cell cluster;
- and
- segment the non-background region of the binarized smoothed image into a region for each of the cell clusters.
A cell-cluster recognition apparatus comprising:
- an image acquisition device that is configured to acquire a cell image formed by capturing an image of a plurality of cell clusters each including a plurality of cells;
- and
- an image processing device that includes a processor configured to:
- smooth a brightness value of the cell image acquired by the image acquisition device so as to generate a smoothed image in which a gap existing between the cells in each of the cell clusters is filled in;
- binarize the smoothed image into a background region and a non-background region of each cell cluster;
- and
- segment the non-background region of the binarized smoothed image into a region for each of the cell clusters.
A cell-cluster recognition method comprising:
- smoothing a brightness value of a cell image including a plurality of cell clusters each including a plurality of cells so as to generate a smoothed image in which a gap existing between the cells in each of the cell clusters is filled in;
- binarizing the smoothed image into a background region and a non-background region of each cell cluster;
- and
- segmenting the non-background region of the binarized smoothed image into a region for each of the cell clusters.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a cell-cluster recognition program stored thereon, the cell-cluster recognition program causing a computer to execute functions of:
- smoothing a brightness value of a cell image including a plurality of cell clusters each including a plurality of cells so as to generate a smoothed image in which a gap existing between the cells in each of the cell clusters is filled in;
- binarizing the smoothed image into a background region and a non-background region of each cell cluster;
- and
- segmenting the non-background region of the binarized smoothed image into a region for each of the cell clusters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.