A medical image processing apparatus of the present invention includes an edge extraction portion that extracts an edge in a two-dimensional image of a living body tissue inputted from a medical image pickup apparatus, a three-dimensional model estimation portion that estimates a three-dimensional model of the living body tissue, based on the two-dimensional image, a local region setting portion that sets a local region centered on a pixel of interest in the two-dimensional image, a determination portion that determines whether the local region is divided by at least part of the edge extracted by the edge extraction portion, a shape feature value calculation portion that calculates a shape feature value of the pixel of interest using three-dimensional coordinate data corresponding to, of the local region, a region which is not divided by the edge extracted by the edge extraction portion and in which the pixel of interest is present, based on a result of determination by the determination portion, and a raised shape detection portion that detects a raised shape, based on a result of calculation by the shape feature value calculation portion.
