Patent ID: 8625867

Claim:
A medical image display apparatus, comprising: a medical image storage unit for storing a first medical image and a second medical image reconstructed from a plurality of medical images, including the first medical image; an image reading report storage unit for storing an image reading report that includes a lesion character representing lesion contents of a lesion area in the first medical image; a lesion storage unit for storing the lesion character and a position of the lesion area in association with each other; a link position storage unit for calculating a position in the second medical image corresponding to the position of the lesion area and storing the calculated position as a link position; a medical image display unit for obtaining the second medical image from the medical image storage unit and displaying the obtained image; and a link information display unit for displaying a link character constituted by the lesion character and a position indicator indicating the link position corresponding to the position of the lesion area represented by the link character in the second medical image in association with each other.