| 摘要 |
It is a proposition of the present invention to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing program which can reduce a user's burden when performing tracking observation of a specimen. In addition, it is also a proposition of the present invention to provide a user friendly observing system. Therefore, an image processing apparatus of the present invention includes a storage unit which takes in a plurality of slice images acquired from a specific area of a specimen by each of Z-stack shootings performed at different time point, associates the plurality of slice images each with a shooting time point and a slice height z of the shooting time point, and stores the plurality of slice images as one of slice image groups, a manual selecting unit which allows a user to manually select a slice image from one of slice image groups stored by the storage unit as a representing slice images (Ia, Ib, Ic, ...) of said one of slice image groups, and an automatic selecting unit which automatically selects a slice image from another one of slice image groups stored by the storage unit, as a representing slice image of said another one of slice image groups, based on a selecting standard information indicating a result of the manual selection. |
