PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and method for lesion detection.SOLUTION: In one example, the method may involve a lesion detection step for detecting lesion candidates from a medical image, an adjacent object detection step for detecting anatomical objects from the medical image, a lesion candidate verification step for verifying the lesion candidates on the basis of anatomical context information comprising information regarding a location relationship between the lesion candidates and the anatomical objects, and a false positive removal step for removing false positive lesion candidates from the lesion candidates on the basis of a verification result.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】 病変検出装置及び方法を提供する。【解決手段】一例によって、医療映像内で病変候補を検出する病変候補検出段階と、医療映像内で解剖学的客体を検出する周辺客体検出段階と、病変候補を病変候補の位置と解剖学的客体の位置との関係情報を含む解剖学的脈絡情報に基づいて検証する病変候補検証段階と、検証結果に基づいて、病変候補のうち、偽陽性病変候補を除去する偽陽性除去段階と、を含みうる。【選択図】 図３
