Patent ID: 8478018

Claim:
A cell analysis method for a cytological or histological sample placed on an analysis plate, comprising the following steps: carrying out two different processing operations of the sample, said processing being adapted so as to allow differentiation of pathological cells from healthy cells of the sample, said processing operations being adapted to allow labeling of pathological cells among the cells of the sample; carrying out two acquisition steps acquiring images of the sample placed on the analysis plate so as to obtain a plurality of images each representing an area of the analysis plate, said images set side by side forming an image of the entire sample, each acquisition step allowing detection of abnormalities according to one of the processing operations carried out on the sample; automatically scrolling all the acquired images of the sample on display means at a predetermined scrolling rate, said rate being adapted so as to allow an observer to analyse the image and to determine whether the represented sample area comprises potentially pathological cells or not; stopping the scrolling if at least one abnormality which may signify the presence of a pathological cell is detected; wherein the stopping of the scrolling is carried out automatically following automated analysis of the image, said stopping being carried out if a particular object, defined as being abnormal is detected in the image; data of the images acquired by each acquisition step being superimposed to allow the observer to switch from the image of an acquired area according to an acquisition step to the image of the same acquired area according to the other acquisition step during the scrolling of the images.