#$%^&*AU2017213456B220190725.pdf#####ABSTRACT Provided are a diagnosis assisting device that facilitates a user to grasp a difference of an affected area to perform a highly precise diagnosis assistance, an image processing method in the diagnosis assisting device, and a program. An image 5 processing method in a diagnosis assisting device that diagnoses lesions from a pickedup image includes (A) performing an image processing on the picked-up image. In (A), a peripheral area other than a diagnosis area that has a high probability as diseases in the picked-up image is set to be a measuring area when an image correction is performed. 9230365_1 (GHMatters) P10626.AU1/14 FIG. 1 10 12 PICKED-UP PROCESSOR -- IMAGE OBTAINER IMAGE CORRECTOR 120 11 13 IMAGE MEMORY DEViCE MAIN BLOCK DERMOSCOPY INPUT DISPLAY IMAGE DEVICE DEVICE 20 30 40 1 DIAONOSISASSISIIG DEVICE FIG. 2 12 PROCESSOR COLORCORRECTING -121 PROCESSOR