MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

A medical image processing device (1) according to the present embodiment is provided with: an input unit (16) which inputs at least three landmarks in each of a first cross-sectional image group and a second cross-sectional image group; an axis determination unit (14) which determines a first axis connecting two landmarks among the landmarks, and a second axis that passes another landmark different from the two landmarks among the landmarks and lies at right angles to the first axis in each of the first and second cross-sectional image groups; and an alignment unit (22) which, using the first and second axes in the first cross-sectional image group and the first and second axes in the second cross-sectional image group, aligns a plurality of first cross-sectional images belonging to the first cross-sectional image group and a plurality of second cross-sectional images belonging to the second cross-sectional image group with each other.