MOTION DETECTION METHOD FOR CARDIAC MUSCLE CELLS, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CULTURE METHOD FOR CARDIAC MUSCLE CELLS, AND DRUG EVALUATION METHOD AND DRUG MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR CARDIAC MUSCLE CELLS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide means for accurately detecting periodical motion of cardiac muscle cells from time-series images obtained in cell observation.;SOLUTION: An image processing method, an image processing program, and an image processing apparatus have a configuration of allowing a computer to realize: a step of obtaining time-series images of cardiac muscle cells which are captured every predetermined period of time; a step of extracting an area having motion from the obtained time-series images; a step of calculating morphological feature quantity of cells in a motion area from time-series images; a step of detecting periodical pulsation motion of the cardiac muscle cells based on time-series changes of the image feature quantity; and a step of detecting the center of the pulsation motion of the cardiac muscle cells.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT