PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical image processing device, a method, and a program detecting a candidate of pleural plaque with favorable precision by enlarging a range where image diagnosis is possible for detecting the candidate of pleura plaque while reducing the burden of dosage of a contrast medium on the patient.SOLUTION: A medical image representing an object is obtained, a lung field area is extracted from the obtained medical image, and the outline of the extracted lung field is compared with a reference outline as a result of a dynamic outline having an initial shape in the lung field area, repeating deformation in accordance with prescribed tendency of deformation, and converging after repeating the deformation to detect a recessed area in the lung field. The recessed area detected is set as a candidate of the first pleural plaque.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】医用画像から胸膜プラーク候補を検出する。【解決手段】被写体を表す医用画像を取得し、取得された医用画像から肺野領域を抽出し、抽出された肺野の輪郭と、肺野領域において初期形状を有し所定の変形の傾向にしたがって変形を繰り返す動的輪郭が該変形を繰り返して収束することにより得た比較輪郭とを比較することによって肺野の凹領域を検出し、検出された凹領域を第一の胸膜プラークの候補とする。【選択図】図2
