Patent ID: 8515143
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: C12M,G06K

Abstract:
1. An embryo quality evaluation assistance system for assisting quality evaluation of an embryo, comprising: an embryo observing apparatus having an image pickup unit that picks up images of the embryo; and a computer that transmits and receives data to and from the embryo observing apparatus, wherein the computer comprises: the image pickup unit picks up the time-series images while the embryo is visually contained in a visual field; and the embryo image extracting unit extracts candidate areas through binarization processing, executes labeling of the candidate areas by allocating a same identifying number to each set of linked candidate area pixels, calculates an area of each labeled candidate area and a size of a rectangle surrounding each labeled candidate area, and removes the labeled candidate area when an area of the rectangle surrounding the labeled candidate area is larger than a size that the embryo can have during a culturing period or when a circularity calculated from an aspect ratio of the rectangle is lower than a predetermined value.