Host: The Japan Radiation Research Society
We have been prototyping a system which scans and detects dicentric chromosomes made by radiation from large amount of slide grasses, consists with an automated microscope and a computer for image recognition, for research of low-dose radiation and practicing of radiation accidents.
A Metaphase Finder is a part of the system, which automatically finds metaphases among the leukocytes of blood. It is known as a tool before radiation dosimetry of observing chromosomes by a microscope and counts the rate of dicentrics.
We have developed the Metaphase Finders and used at 7 domestic (increased 1 in this year) sites and 1 foreign site, but further development is continuing simultaneously.
This year, we are reporting a new system whose camera for image processing is high-definition camera. It can capture the wide area at the same definition then its processing speed is become higher.
We are also to distribute the Training Software to show the normal and abnormal chromosomes from the database, which made the judgment of many viewers to be the same to the domestic sites.
