Method, apparatus, and program for detecting abnormal patterns

摘要

The positions of comparative tissue are more accurately set, in an abnormal pattern detecting apparatus that compares abnormal pattern candidates against healthy tissue having similar tissue structures to judge whether the candidates are abnormal patterns, to improve judgment accuracy. A comparative region image setting means (40) searches for images that are similar to images Q within candidate regions, which are extracted by a candidate region extracting means (10). The search is conducted employing correlative values that represent the degrees of similarity among the images and the images within candidate regions. Similar images, which are located employing the correlative values, are set as comparative region images Q'.