a) Method of cultivating a cell culture in an automated cell culture system, wherein data concerning the condition of cells are acquired in the cell culture and at least one culturing condition is regulated in accordance with the acquired condition of the cells in the cell culture, and/or at least one operating step determined to be necessary in the cell cultivation process is initiated or carried out, wherein data and/or protocols acquired with the cell culture for the cultivation of cell cultures are stored and can be called in, b) an apparatus for regulating cell culturing conditions is provided for evaluating a present condition of the cell culture on the basis of the data acquired with the cell culture and stored protocols of earlier cultivations for the cultivation of the present cell cultures, wherein this evaluation is the basis for a determination of a possible intervention in the culturing conditions, c) at least a part of the cells in the cell culture is analysed with an imaging method, and at least one parameter for the identification of the condition of the cell culture is determined by the evaluation program or a classification of the cells is performed, d) wherein for the regulation of the culturing conditions, at least one process parameter for the cell cultivation corresponding to the classification performed by the evaluation program is influenced by a regulation program and the cell culture is transported in a cell culture vessel by an automated handling apparatus in the automated cell culture system, e) wherein an image analysis program part of the software program for the identification of cells can be trained by the user, f) wherein in a training phase, some of the images can be marked as examples of structures to be identified, wherein the image analysis program part for these images calculates a set of features and determines those features which characterize the selected examples and determines criteria which discriminate the structures searched for from other structures in the feature space, and wherein, after the termination of the training phase, these calculated parameters are used to automatically identify the desired structures in further images and g) wherein the user makes, with reference to images, a classification of cell types or of defined conditions of the culture, which can subsequently be identified by the image processing during the automatic cultivation. a) Method of cultivating a cell culture in an automated cell culture system, wherein data concerning the condition of cells are acquired in the cell culture and at least one culturing condition is regulated in accordance with the acquired condition of the cells in the cell culture, and/or at least one operating step determined to be necessary in the cell cultivation process is initiated or carried out, wherein data and/or protocols acquired with the cell culture for the cultivation of cell cultures are stored and can be called in, b) an apparatus for regulating cell culturing conditions is provided for evaluating a present condition of the cell culture on the basis of the data acquired with the cell culture and stored protocols of earlier cultivations for the cultivation of the present cell cultures, wherein this evaluation is the basis for a determination of a possible intervention in the culturing conditions, c) at least a part of the cells in the cell culture is analysed with an imaging method, and at least one parameter for the identification of the condition of the cell culture is determined by the evaluation program or a classification of the cells is performed, d) wherein for the regulation of the culturing conditions, at least one process parameter for the cell cultivation corresponding to the classification performed by the evaluation program is influenced by a regulation program and the cell culture is transported in a cell culture vessel by an automated handling apparatus in the automated cell culture system, e) wherein an image analysis program part of the software program for the identification of cells can be trained by the user, f) wherein in a training phase, some of the images can be marked as examples of structures to be identified, wherein the image analysis program part for these images calculates a set of features and determines those features which characterize the selected examples and determines criteria which discriminate the structures searched for from other structures in the feature space, and wherein, after the termination of the training phase, these calculated parameters are used to automatically identify the desired structures in further images and g) wherein the user makes, with reference to images, a classification of cell types or of defined conditions of the culture, which can subsequently be identified by the image processing during the automatic cultivation.