Analysis-result browsing device
View Patent ↗The number of cells existing and the positions thereof in a container that contains the cells can be grasped at a glance. Provided is an analysis-result browsing device that includes: a camera that captures cells at set capturing positions; a processing unit that detects and analyzes the cells captured by the camera, for the respective capturing positions; a display unit that displays analysis results of the cells analyzed by the processing unit, together with a container map that shows a container and the plurality of capturing positions in the container; and a control unit that sets the capturing positions in the container, which contains the cells, and simultaneously displays the analysis results of the cells at at least two of the capturing positions on the container map, which is displayed on the display unit.
1. An analysis-result browsing device comprising:
a computer;
a camera; and
a display,
wherein the computer is configured to execute processes comprising:
a capturing-position setting process to set capturing positions in a container that contains cells;
an image acquisition process to control the camera to capture images of cells that exist at the capturing positions set in the capturing-position setting process;
an analysis process to detect and analyze, for the respective capturing positions, the cells based on the images captured in the image acquisition process; and
a display control process to control the display to display analysis results of the cells analyzed in the analysis process, together with a container map that shows the container and the plurality of capturing positions in the container, and
wherein the display control process comprises simultaneously displaying in a distinguishable manner, at areas corresponding to at least two of the capturing positions on the container map displayed on the display at which at least two of the cells are aggregated, information regarding the analysis results of the cells that exist at the at least two of the capturing positions.
2. The analysis-result browsing device according to claim 1 , wherein the display control process comprises displaying, at a corresponding one of the capturing positions on the container map in a distinguishable manner, an outer periphery of a colony into which at least two of the cells detected in the analysis process are aggregated.
3. The analysis-result browsing device according to claim 2 , wherein the display control process comprises, when the colony has a protruding region that partially protrudes from its corresponding capturing position, estimating the protruding region of the colony based on the analysis results of the cells analyzed in the analysis process, and displaying the estimated protruding region on the container map.
4. The analysis-result browsing device according to claim 1 , wherein the display control process comprises calculating a feature quantity of a colony into which at least two of the cells are aggregated, based on the analysis results of the cells analyzed in the analysis process, and displaying the calculated feature quantity on the container map in association with the capturing position to which the colony corresponds.
5. The analysis-result browsing device according to claim 4 , wherein the display control process displays the feature quantities as 3D graphics, graphs, or color gradations, in a comparable manner at at least two of the capturing positions on the container map.
6. The analysis-result browsing device according to claim 4 , wherein the display control process comprises estimating the feature quantity of a colony that exists in a region, other than the capturing positions, on the container map based on the analysis results of the cells analyzed in the analysis process, and displaying the estimated feature quantity of the colony on the container map.