[Problem] In a surgical support device which indicates an area to be excised including an abnormal area in an organ, to suggest a more appropriate excision method in view of the position of said abnormal area in the organ and the positional relationship among the target organ and the surrounding organs.[Solution] A surgical support device comprising: a medical image-capturing means (11) for capturing a three-dimensional medical image of a subject a target tissue area-extracting means (12) for extracting the area of the target tissue from the three-dimensional medical image having been captured by the medical image-capturing means (11) an abnormal area-extracting means (13) for extracting an abnormal area from the target tissue area having been extracted by the target tissue area-extracting means (12) an excision method-acquiring means (16) for acquiring a plurality of excision methods on the basis of a plurality of requirements for determining the area to be excised, in each of these methods the area to be excised, which satisfies a respective of the requirements for determining the area to be excised, being set up relative to the abnormal area and an excision method-presenting means (17) for presenting the excision methods having been acquired by the excision method-acquiring means (16).Linvention a pour but, dans un dispositif de support chirurgical qui indique une zone à exciser comprenant une zone anormale dans un organe, de suggérer un procédé dexcision plus approprié compte tenu de la position de ladite zone anormale dans lorgane et de la relation de position entre lorgane cible et les organes environnants. A cet effet, linvention concerne un dispositif de support chirurgical comprenant : un moyen de capture dimage médicale (11) pour capturer une image médicale tridimensionnelle dun sujet un moyen dextraction de zone de tissu cible (2) pour extraire la zone du tissu cible de limage médicale tridimensionnelle qui a été capturée par le moyen de capture dimage m