Patent ID: 8086016
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: G01N,G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A cell image analysis apparatus for judging a presence or an absence of a membrane translocation reaction occurring in a cell owing to application of an arbitrary stimulus to the cell, characterized by comprising: a means that acquires as an image data a fluorescence microscopic image of a cell after the application of the stimulus in which cell translocation molecules moving to a cell membrane in the membrane translocation reaction have been fluorescently labeled; a means that determines a region occupied by the cell in the image data of the fluorescence microscopic image of the cell; a means that determines a contour line of the cell which has a width of a predetermined number of pixels from a periphery of the region occupied by the cell; and a means that judges the presence or absence of the membrane translocation reaction based on a brightness value on the contour line of the cell and a brightness value in an inside of the contour line of the cell in the image data of the fluorescence microscopic image of the cell.