IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To extract a hepatic area from a three-dimensional image with high accuracy.SOLUTION: An image processor 10 includes a main blood vessel area removal part 16 for removing a blood vessel for connecting a liver specified on the basis of the thickness of a blood vessel from abdominal blood vessel extracted from a three-dimensional image and other organs, a classification part 17 for specifying a hepatic blood vessel separated from the abdominal blood vessel by removing the blood vessel, and a core area generation part 18 for extracting an area including the hepatic blood vessel as a hepatic area.