Patent ID: 7684606
Filing Date: 2010-03-23
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an area specifying unit that specifies a closed area emitting fluorescence in a first fluorescence image as a cell area in a cell population including a number of dispersed cells, the fluorescence image being generated from fluorescence emitted by the cell population irradiated with a scanning laser beam; a nucleus data removing unit that removes image data corresponding to a nucleus in the cell area from the first fluorescence image to generate a second fluorescence image; an overlapping cell specifying unit that specifies an overlapping cell area where cells overlap in the second fluorescence image, based on a fluorescence intensity of a cytoplasm portion corresponding to an image where the image data corresponding to the nucleus is removed; and an analyzed image generating unit that generates an analyzed image in which image data of the overlapping cell area is removed from the first fluorescence image.