IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve, in displaying a tomographic image in a slice in a three-dimensional (3D) medical image, better recognition of a vascular structure contained in the slice without degrading spatial resolution of the slice.SOLUTION: There is provided an image processing apparatus comprising: identifying means for identifying a slice of interest in a 3D medical image representing a part including a blood vessel; and projecting means for applying projection processing to pixel values in a slice axis direction of the slice for a region in the 3D medical image including the slice and wider than a slice width of the slice.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1