PROCESSING DEVICE FOR IMAGES FOR MEDICAL USE, IMAGE PICK-UP DEVICE FOR IMAGES FOR MEDICAL USE, AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMAGES FOR MEDICAL USE

摘要

Provided is a processing device for images for medical use that can estimate the noise of image data for medical use. The processing device for images for medical use relating to this embodiment comprises a differential calculating unit, a removal unit, a first statistical processing unit, and an estimation unit. The differential calculation unit receives a plurality of images for medical use having different image pick-up locations, and by determining the differential among the plurality of images for medical use, generates differential image data showing a differential. The removal unit removes from the differential image data regions corresponding to structural bodies. The first statistical processing unit determines a first standard deviation for the pixel values of pixels of differential image data from which regions corresponding to structural bodies have been removed. The estimation unit estimates, on the basis of the first standard deviation, a second standard deviation of image data for medical use.