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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out the screening of medicines in high accuracy by using a proper morphological character. SOLUTION: The screening method comprises the analysis of cell images photographed by a microscope, the evaluation of the parameterized value of the deviation of the contour of the cell from circles C I and C O as a morphological character representing the morphological character of each cell in the cell images and the screening of medicines based on the evaluation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract translation:要解决的问题:通过适当的形态特征,高精度地进行药物筛选。 解决方案:筛选方法包括通过显微镜拍摄的细胞图像的分析,细胞轮廓偏离参数值的评估圆圈C I SB>和C O SB>作为代表细胞图像中的每个细胞的形态特征和基于评估的药物筛选的形态特征。 版权所有(C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for making the direction of a captured image and the arrangement direction of spots aligned in a detection means, such as a CCD camera, and more specifically, to provide a technique for detecting or correcting the direction of a reaction vessel. SOLUTION: The reaction vessel (101), having a base (102) for solidifying a probe for detecting an organism-related substance, has correction means (105, 106, 107, 108, 109) for aligning the detection direction of a detection means (129) for detecting the reaction of the base and that of the base. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an observation device and an observation method capable of observing a state change of an observation object after starting the observation.SOLUTION: An observation device 1 is provided with an optical microscopic observation part 20 to obtain an image of a sample A, a cell state determination part 43 to determine a state of the sample A by comparing the plural images obtained at a time interval by the optical microscopic observation part 20, an area extraction part 44 to extract an area where the cell state determination part 43 has determined the state change, and a scanning microscopic observation part 30 to obtain an image of the area extracted by the area extraction part 44 at higher resolution than the optical microscopic observation part 20.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nerve cell image analyzer and a nerve cell image analysis software capable of accurately analyzing at high speed, a projecting portion or a tubular portion in a cell, such as a dendrite, an axon, and an axon collateral on the tip of the axon in a nerve cell. SOLUTION: The nerve cell image analyzer performs a prescribed automatic analysis processing to an image acquired from an image acquisition means for acquiring a light image emitted from the nerve cell as the image. The analyzer has a step S1 of dividing a nerve cell image acquired through the image acquisition means into a plurality of domains including a circular domain, a step S2 of extracting a prescribed parameter amount characterizing a domain relative to each divided domain, a step S3 of acquiring a matrix showing correlation between adjacent domains, a step S4 of detecting a route and a branch state of the nerve cell by using the acquired matrix, and a step S5 of calculating a statistic of acquired information. In the analyzer, a structure of the nerve cell is analyzed through processing in each step. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cell culture container which enables the free selection of a timing and amount for supplying a biochemical substance or the like secreted from one kind of cells in a culture process to the other kind of cells, and thereby facilitating finer observation of the culture. SOLUTION: This cell culture container is characterized by disposing a dividing wall 2b for approximately horizontally dividing culture regions X, Y for culturing the cells A, B therein in the culture regions X, Y, disposing passages 3 permitting the pass of a culture solution 5 in the dividing wall 2b, and disposing filter members 4 permitting the pass of the culture solution 5 but inhibiting the pass of the cells A, B and an opening or closing means 6 for opening or closing the pass 3 in the dividing wall 2b. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remarkably reduce time and effort required for adjustment of an automatic focusing mechanism. SOLUTION: The microscope includes: an illuminating light source 9; an objective lens 2 that condenses first light, emitted from the illuminating light source 9, onto a specimen 12; the illuminating light source 9 that images first light reflected by the specimen 12 and passed through the objective lens 2; and a focus detecting means 1C that detects the displacement of a microtiter plate 12 from the focused position of the objective lens 2. The focus detecting means 1C has the automatic focusing mechanism that includes a focus detection light source 13 for emitting focus detection light as second light; a focus detection light obtaining means 18 that condenses the focus detection light; and an area setting means 19 by which a focused-state determinable area of the focus detection light obtained by the focus detection light obtaining means 18 can be set to an arbitrary position of the focus detection light obtaining means 18. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simultaneously stimulate an arbitrary entire region of a specimen, or a plurality of individual regions, without a time lag, or to apply a strong stimulus to an arbitrary region of a specimen. SOLUTION: The microscope apparatus includes: a first stimulation optical system 32 having a galvanometer mirror 34A, 34B that scans a specimen S with first stimulus light, which applies an optical stimulus to a specimen, on the specimen S; a second stimulation optical system 42 which has a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed movable mirrors and which switches the angle of each movable mirror, so that second stimulus light, which applies an optical stimulus to the specimen S, can be selectively deflected towards the specimen S; and a dichroic mirror 15B that synthesizes a light path of the first stimulation optical system 32 and a light path of the second stimulation optical system 42. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image analyzing method for FISH cell, system and apparatus to accurately detect target fluorescent spots unaffected by three-dimensional configuration of fluorescent spots in a cell nucleus, light emission by foreign matter, etc., out of the cell, confusion of fluorescent wavelength, etc. SOLUTION: The image analyzing apparatus includes an image-pickup device 1 to pick up a plurality of cell images including a first fluorescent reporter molecule to report a cell segment and second and third fluorescent reporter molecules reporting first and second gene sequences, and an image analyzing device 2 having a computer. The image-pickup device takes a plurality of images of a plurality of cells by varying a Z direction, and the image analyzing device has a software to function the computer as a means 2a to construct a three-dimensional cell segment from the images, a means 2b to discriminate inside and outside of the three-dimensional cell segment, a means 2c to recognize a fluorescent signal from the second and third fluorescent reporter molecules in the three-dimensional cell segment, and a means 2d to determine the characteristic value of the recognized fluorescent signal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cell image analyzer and a cell image analysis software capable of automating complicated cell classification to some degree, while maximumly saving trouble or labor of an experimenter, and reflecting a desire of a researcher who is a user so that automatic analysis can be progressed with flexibility in some degree. SOLUTION: The analyzer has a function for performing a prescribed processing to an image acquired from an image acquisition means for acquiring a light image emitted from cells as the image, and automatically extracting a cell group having a similar characteristic to specific cells which are interesting to the user among images including a plurality of cells. The device also has a function enabling the user to designate an optional cell as an interesting cell. Preferably, the device has a function for automatically setting a parameter group comprising characteristic quantity parameters by which a cell group having a similar characteristic to specific cells designated by the user can be distinguished from other cell groups, and automatically setting a threshold of each characteristic quantity parameter included in the parameter group. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately count number of cells by reducing load of examiners and inspection mistakes. SOLUTION: The cell analysis method comprises a process for inputting image information accepting lights emitted from cells as two or more images with a predetermined interval, a luminance value operation process for calculating a rate of presence of pixel over a predetermined value of two or more images obtained in the process for inputting the image information and a comparative operation process for comparatively operating the rate of presence of pixel over the predetermined value of two or more images obtained in the process for inputting the image information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT