Patent ID: 8350905

Claim:
A microscope system comprising a VS image generation means for generating a virtual slide image (a VS image) of a specimen which is constructed by connecting a plurality of microscope images with a first photomagnification photographed and acquired whenever an objective lens and the specimen are moved in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis and which represents an entire image of the specimen, an object-of-interest set means setting an object of interest with respect to the entire image of the specimen represented by the VS image, wherein the object-of-interest set means sets a region representing the image of an abnormal cell, of cells constituting the specimen in the VS image of the entire specimen, as the object of interest and a three-dimensional VS image generation means for generating a three-dimensional VS image which is constructed by connecting the microscope images at different focal positions in accordance with said focal positions and which is constructed from the microscope images with a second photomagnification higher than the first photomagnification and represents an image of the object of interest.