MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

In an image processing apparatus 3, a three-dimensional surface model is generated from an endoscopic image; a small area voxel Bs is set so as to include each part of the internal surface of the generated surface model; a distance Ls between each voxel Bs and an observation position is calculated; the number of constituent data points Ns of the surface model within the voxel Bs is obtained; a reliability ps of each voxel is calculated to generate a voxel reliability map; and the voxel reliability map is stored in an voxel reliability map storage section 25b. Then, in the case of performing detection of a lesion candidate and the like with the surface model by image processing, information about the reliability of the detection result is presented with the use of the reliability of the voxel portion used.