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Title:
DNA CHIP IMAGE SPOT VALIDITY ASSESSING DEVICE, DNA CHIP IMAGE SPOT VALIDITY ASSESSING METHOD, AND DNA CHIP IMAGE SPOT VALIDITY ASSESSING PROGRAM
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2016/152159
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
The invention makes it possible to prevent erroneous detection based on contamination or based on a pseudo-spot in a DNA chip image, and to improve the accuracy of examinations employing DNA chips. A device for assessing the validity of spots in a DNA chip image obtained by capturing an image of the DNA chip, to which probes have been fixed, in a state in which a labeled specimen has been bound to the probes, the device being provided with: a multi-stage binarization processing unit which creates a plurality of binarized images from the DNA chip image using, as thresholds to be used in an image binarization process, a plurality of thresholds distributed over the entire range of brightness in the DNA chip image; a spot shape and position detecting unit which detects the shapes and positions of spots in the binarized images; and a spot shape and position assessing unit which assesses the acceptability of the spot shapes and positions detected by the spot shape and position detecting unit.

Inventors:
KASHIWABARA KEN (JP)
OONUKI RYUUJI (JP)
ISSHIKI ATSUNORI (JP)
NAKAJIMA KAZUKI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2016/001688
Publication Date:
September 29, 2016
Filing Date:
March 23, 2016
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Assignee:
TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS LTD (JP)
International Classes:
G01N21/64; C12M1/00; C12N15/09
Domestic Patent References:
WO2013137247A12013-09-19
WO2013133283A12013-09-12
Foreign References:
JP2013072684A2013-04-22
JP2009156824A2009-07-16
JP2009204414A2009-09-10
JP2005172840A2005-06-30
JP2014063019A2014-04-10
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
WATANABE, Kihei et al. (JP)
Kihei Watanabe (JP)
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