Patent ID: 7403645

Claim:
A medical image processing apparatus comprising: an abnormal shadow candidate detecting section for detecting a plurality of types of abnormal shadow candidates in a medical image; and a correcting section for correcting a detection result of one type of abnormal shadow candidate by the abnormal shadow candidate detecting section based on a detection result of another type of abnormal shadow candidate, wherein the correcting section corrects a detection condition for the one type of abnormal shadow candidate based on the detection result of the another type of abnormal shadow candidate, and the abnormal shadow candidate detecting section performs a detection of the one type of abnormal shadow candidate in an image region in which the another type of abnormal shadow candidate is detected, by applying the detection condition corrected by the correcting section, wherein the medical image comprises a mammography, the abnormal shadow candidate detecting section detects a mass shadow candidate and a clustered-microcalcification shadow candidate in the mammography, the correcting section corrects a detection condition for the clustered-microcalcification shadow candidate based on a detection result of the mass shadow candidate by the abnormal shadow candidate detecting section, and the normal shadow candidate detecting section detects the clustered-microcalcification shadow candidate in an image region of the mass shadow candidate by applying the clustered-microcalcification shadow candidate detection condition corrected by the correcting section.