Title:
SPECIMEN ASSESSMENT DEVICE, SPECIMEN ASSESSMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2019/111365
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
Provided are a specimen assessment device, specimen assessment method, and program for assessing whether a tissue specimen for an endoscopic needle biopsy has the necessary amount of biological tissue for a pathological diagnosis. This specimen assessment device 1 comprises an illumination unit 3 for irradiating light onto a specimen SP10, an imaging unit 4 for generating image data by imaging the specimen SP irradiated with light by the illumination unit 3, a detection unit 81 for detecting a core tissue area in the biological tissue shown in the image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit 4, a calculation unit 82 for calculating the tissue amount of the biological tissue on the basis of the core tissue area detected by the detection unit 81, and a determination unit 83 for determining whether the tissue amount calculated by the calculation unit 82 is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold.
Inventors:
IOKA KEN (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2017/043888
Publication Date:
June 13, 2019
Filing Date:
December 06, 2017
Export Citation:
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORP (JP)
International Classes:
G01N21/27; G01N33/48
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2015045012A1 | 2015-04-02 |
Foreign References:
| JP2003521669A | 2003-07-15 | |||
| JP5861225B2 | 2016-02-16 | |||
| JP2009115599A | 2009-05-28 | |||
| JP2014526035A | 2014-10-02 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
SAKAI INTERNATIONAL PATENT OFFICE (JP)
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