Patent ID: 7865000

Claim:
A medical image processing apparatus for analyzing properties of a living body based on image data of the living body, said medical image processing apparatus comprising: an image analyzing device for executing a predetermined image analysis processing on the image data of the living body to obtain shape image data, obtained by extracting a profile of the living body, and pattern image data, obtained by extracting pattern information of an interior of the profile of the living body; a calculation device for calculating a fractal dimension D A of the shape image data, and calculating a fractal dimension D B of the pattern image data based on the obtained shape image data and the obtained pattern image data, and then, calculating an index value CI based on the fractal dimension D A of the shape image data and the fractal dimension D B of the pattern image data, the calculated index value representing only the pattern information of the pattern image data; and a judgment device for judging the properties of the living body based on the calculated index value.