PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical image processing apparatus with which a plurality of medical images are followed up and displayed in comparative image interpretation, using anatomical positions.SOLUTION: A medical image processing apparatus into which a medical image to be interpreted composed of a plurality of slice images and a medical image to be compared also composed of a plurality of slice images are input, includes: an anatomical position detection part detecting an anatomical position of a characteristic local structure inside a human body from each of the input medical image to be interpreted and the input medical image to be compared and a contrast image specification part specifying each of a slice image to be interpreted and a slice image to be compared which anatomically correspond to each other, from among the plurality of slice images included in each of the input medical image to be interpreted and the input medical image to be compared, on the basis of the anatomical positions.COPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT
