Image processing apparatus, imaging system, and image processing system

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire layer images obtained by imaging different positions of an object by using a microscope; an image generation unit for generating a plurality of observation images from the layer images. The image generation unit generates the observation images by performing combine processing for focus-stacking two or more layer images selected from among the layer images to generate a single observation image, for plural times.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an image processing device, an imaging system and an image processing system, in particular to a technology for assisting object observation with digital images. Background technique [0002] In recent years, a virtual slide system has attracted attention in the field of pathology as a successor to the optical microscope currently used as a tool for pathological diagnosis. The virtual slide system enables pathological diagnosis to be performed on a display by imaging a sample to be observed placed on a slide and digitizing the image. Digitization of pathological diagnostic images using a virtual slide system makes it possible to manipulate conventional optical microscope images of samples as digital data. This is expected to bring advantages such as faster remote diagnosis, provision of information to patients through digital images, data sharing of rare cases, and more effective education and training. [0003] When ...

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[0006] One of such disadvantages lies in the observation in the depth direction (the direction along the optical axis of the optical microscope or the direction perpendicular to the viewing surface of the slide).

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