ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,170, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Cell image analysis method and cell image analyzer" was invented by Wataru Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell image analysis method includes converting a first image into a label image by performing a segmentation process to identify a region of a cell that has already started differentiation and a region of an undifferentiated cell in the first image, acquiring a shape feature amount from the label image, and determining whether or not a cell colony includes a colony region that is a candidate for a search target based on the shape fea...