IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPIC INSTRUMENT

摘要

The present invention is equipped with: an image acquisition means for acquiring endoscopic color image data; a color-space conversion means for converting the color space of the endoscopic color image data into an HSI color space based on hue, saturation and intensity, or into an HSV color space based on hue, saturation, and brightness; a pathological-change-pixel determination means for determining whether each pixel configuring the endoscopic color image is a pixel in a pathological-change area, on the basis of the hue and saturation thereof; a pathological-change-pixel counting means for counting the pathological-change-pixel number, which is the number of pixels determined to be pixels in the pathological-change area; a pathological-change-index calculation means for calculating a pathological-change index on the basis of the pathological-change-pixel number; and a pathological-change-index display means for displaying the pathological-change index.