MEDICAL IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD

摘要

Disclosed is a medical image-processing device that is provided with an extraction means for extracting vascular regions from medical image data, a detection means that evaluates shape or signal value distribution information for vascular margins, including the vascular contours and the vascular contour peripheries of the vascular regions extracted by said extraction means and detects abnormal areas based on the evaluation results, and a display means that displays information pertaining to the abnormal areas detected by said detection means.