| abstract |
The present invention provides a medical diagnosis support device, which is capable of acquiring information to support medical diagnosis for easily and precisely determining chromosome abnormality and/or gene amplification related to cancer or genetic disorder. n The medical diagnosis support device for acquiring information to support medical diagnosis from an image of a specimen stained by multiple staining, the image is obtained by photographing the stained specimen with transmitted light, the device comprises: staining characteristics quantity acquisition means for acquiring characteristics quantity of each staining, based on a pixel value of the image of the stained specimen; marker intensifying means for intensifying a marker, based on the characteristics quantity of each staining thus acquired; marker extracting means for extracting the marker of each staining, based on the characteristics quantity in which the marker has been thus intensified; marker state judging means for judging a state of the marker, based on the marker of each staining thus extracted; and marker state identifying and displaying means for identifying and displaying the marker state, based on the judgment result. |