ENDOSCOPE OBSERVATION SUPPORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND DEVICE AND PROGRAMME

摘要

When the inside of a body cavity is observed with an endoscope which has been inserted into the body cavity which is subject to observation, the disclosed invention enables the proximity and positional relationship between places requiring attention such as points to undergo surgery, and treatment devices, to be more reliably recognised. With a three-dimensional medical image formed by a three-dimensional medical image formation unit (5) as an input, a virtual endoscope image generation unit (24), generates a virtual endoscope image which shows the inside of a body cavity as seen from a location, in the three-dimensional medical image, which corresponds to the location of a treatment device as detected in real-time by a treatment device location detection unit (11). The generated virtual endoscope image is displayed on a WS display (10).