To attempt to improve the analyzing accuracy of a column and the like containing particles therein by adopting a constitution to simultaneously calculate the morphological feature amounts of the particle image area and particle internal structure area by a feature amount calculator by providing a ternary processor and a particle image labeling processor.
The stroboscopic light 11 of a microscope light source is lit, and projected to the particles in a flow cell 8 via a condenser lens 12. The transmitted image of the particle is introduced from an objective 13 to a TV camera 15, and transduced into an electric signal. The particle image is image- processed and feature-extracted by a feature extractor 16. Eventually, the particles in the sample are automatically sorted by a particle analyzer 17 by using the particle feature amounts. A central control unit 9 controls the entire apparatus, calculates the data and judges the analyzed result. The data necessary for the measurement is sent from an external data unit 3. A feature amount calculator 20 simultaneously calculates the morphological feature amounts of the area and the peripheral length at the respective labels, and stores them in a feature amount memory.
ASAI HIDENORI
ODAKURA MASAAKI
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