APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL SHADOW

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for improving an accuracy of judgment when determining whether or not a candidate area of a detected microcalcified shadow is an actually existing area of microcalcified shadow on the basis of a percentage of possession of the candidate site. SOLUTION: A means 10 for extracting a candidate area extracts the candidate area of the microcalcified shadow of the original images based on the original image data P inputted from an image reading apparatus or the like. A means 20 for detecting the candidate areas that clusters the extracted candidate sites for detecting the candidate area of the microcalcified shadow, a means 30 that calculates a revised count value calculates the revised count value of the respective extracted candidate sites, a judgment means 40 obtains a location information of the candidate areas from the means 20 for detecting the candidate areas and the revised count value of each candidate area from the means 30 that calculates the revised count value before the judgment as to whether or not the candidate area is the actually existing area of the microcalcified shadow by calculating the percentage of possession of the total revised count value of the candidate area.