Provided is an image processing apparatus configured to process an image of a fundus of an eye, which is capable of simply and accurately measuring a distribution of cells that form a blood vessel wall of an eye. The image processing apparatus includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image of an eye； a vessel feature acquiring unit configured to acquire membrane candidate points that form an arbitrary wall of a blood vessel based on the acquired image； and a cell identifying unit configured to identify a cell that forms the wall of the blood vessel based on the membrane candidate points.
