US 12,299,970 B2
Apparatus, system, and method for supporting setting for cell image analysis
Takatoshi Kakeda, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Evident Corporation, Nagano (JP)
Filed by Evident Corporation, Tatsuno-machi (JP)
Filed on Apr. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/711,396.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-064247 (JP), filed on Apr. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0319163 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 10/94 (2022.01); G06V 10/96 (2022.01); G06V 20/69 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 10/945 (2022.01) [G06V 10/96 (2022.01); G06V 20/693 (2022.01); G06V 20/695 (2022.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus that supports setting for cell image analysis, comprising:
a processor configured to select parameter-setting candidate information for image analysis that analyzes a cell image, by referring to a database about a parameter-setting history of the image analysis; and
an output unit configured to output the parameter-setting candidate information selected by the processor in a state in which the parameter-setting candidate information is designatable by a user and before the image analysis is performed in accordance with parameters indicated by the parameter-setting candidate information,
wherein
the processor is further configured to receive, by user input, designation of parameters indicated by the output parameter-setting candidate information, and perform image analysis on the cell image in accordance with the parameters designated by the user input,
the database includes setting history information that is a collection of pieces of combination information indicating combinations of parameters having been set in previously-performed image analysis, and is a collection of pieces of combination information including a recognition parameter that specifies an object of image recognition and an analysis parameter that specifies what feature of the object of image recognition is focused on in performing the image analysis,
the processor is configured to, in response to selection of a first parameter as the recognition parameter, select the parameter-setting candidate information based on combination information including the first parameter in the setting history information,
the database further includes evaluation information that is a collection of pieces of individual evaluation information indicating evaluation results for the pieces of combination information, and
the processor is configured to select the parameter-setting candidate information from the combination information including the first parameter in the setting history information based on the evaluation information, in response to the selection of the first parameter as the recognition parameter.