Abstract:
In compound screening using cell images, compounds having an effective action on cells are searched for by automated processing, to more perform existing methods for compound searching more effectively. There is provided an apparatus including an image-acquisition unit (55) for capturing a plurality of cell images under different image-acquisition conditions; and an analysis unit (80) for extracting a cell position and at least one feature on the basis of the plurality of cell images and for performing statistical analysis with the extracted features serving as parameters.