| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible for a cultivator to efficiently and accurately determine undifferentiation/differentiation in a stem cell differentiation assessment apparatus, method, and program for assessing the differentiation of stem cells on the basis of observation images in which an observation region including the stem cells is photographed.SOLUTION: A stem cell differentiation assessment apparatus comprises: an observation image acquisition unit 30 for acquiring at least two observation images in which an observation region including stem cells is photographed in time series; a feature quantity acquisition unit 31 for acquiring at least one feature quantity of the stem cells for each observation image; an assessment unit 32 for assessing whether the stem cells are undifferentiated or differentiated on the basis of the feature quantity; a change information acquisition unit 33 for acquiring information about a change in the feature quantity between the observation images photographed in time series or information about a change in the assessment results from undifferentiation to differentiation between the observation images; and a display control unit 34 for outputting the information about changes in the feature quantity or changes in the assessment results. |
