IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SUPPORT APPARATUS

摘要

An image diagnostic support apparatus, which is connected with an image acquisition means to acquire a tomographic image including a lung region of an examinee and is provided with an image display means to display the tomographic image acquired by the image acquisition means as an image, is comprised of a measurement range setting means that sets up a measurement range to extract the chest wall from the image, a chest wall extracting means that extracts the chest wall from the image in the set measurement range, a thickened portion extracting means that extracts a thickened portion incidental to the chest wall in the measurement range, and a thickened portion measuring means that measures a thickness of the thickened portion at each position in the measurement range.