MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND VIRTUAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM

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APP PUB NO 20100322502A1
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12816472

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The present invention provides a medical diagnosis support device, which is capable of acquiring information to support medical diagnosis for easily and precisely determining chromosome abnormality and/or gene amplification related to cancer or genetic disorder.The medical diagnosis support device for acquiring information to support medical diagnosis from an image of a specimen stained by multiple staining, the image is obtained by photographing the stained specimen with transmitted light, the device comprises: staining characteristics quantity acquisition means for acquiring characteristics quantity of each staining, based on a pixel value of the image of the stained specimen; marker intensifying means for intensifying a marker, based on the characteristics quantity of each staining thus acquired; marker extracting means for extracting the marker of each staining, based on the characteristics quantity in which the marker has been thus intensified; marker state judging means for judging a state of the marker, based on the marker of each staining thus extracted; and marker state identifying and displaying means for identifying and displaying the marker state, based on the judgment result.

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OLYMPUS CORPORATION2951 ISHIKAWA-MACHI HACHIOJI-SHI TOKYO 192-8507
JAPANESE FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH8-31 ARIAKE 3-CHOME KOTO-KU TOKYO 135-8550

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ISHIKAWA, Yuichi Tokyo, JP 103 1788
OTSUKA, Takeshi Tokyo, JP 92 1033
TAKEUCHI, Kengo Tokyo, JP 50 231
YAMADA, Tatsuki Tokyo, JP 14 271

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