PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical support device for supporting a treatment in which a catheter is inserted into an organ of a subject.SOLUTION: A medical support device 10 includes an extraction part 12 for extracting data on an organ from three-dimensional image data acquired by imaging a subject, a conversion part 13 for converting the extracted data on the organ to surface data, an analysis part 14 for simulating a state of contact between an outer peripheral surface of the catheter inserted into the vicinity of a specific site of the organ and an inner wall surface of the organ displayed by the surface data, and a display part 16 for displaying the state of contact between the outer peripheral surface of the catheter and the inner wall surface of the organ, which is simulated by the analysis part 14.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5COPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT【課題】被検体の器官内にカテーテルを挿入して行う治療を支援する医療支援装置を提供する。【解決手段】本発明の医療支援装置10は、被検体を撮影して得られた3次元画像データから、器官のデータを抽出する抽出部12と、抽出した器官のデータを、サーフェスデータに変換する変換部13と、器官の特定部位近傍に挿入されたカテーテルの外周面と、サーフェスデータで表示された器官の内壁面との接触状態をシミュレーションする解析部14と、解析部14でシミュレーションされたカテーテルの外周面と器官の内壁面との接触状態を表示する表示部16とを備えている。【選択図】図5
