Patent ID: 7162061

Claim:
An abnormal pattern detection processing method comprising: detecting an abnormal pattern in an image, based on inputted image information; processing the detected abnormal pattern; displaying the detected abnormal pattern; correcting the processed and displayed abnormal pattern, for each of a plurality of items of the inputted image information; relating a result of the processed and displayed abnormal pattern to a result of the corrected abnormal pattern, for each of the plurality of items of the inputted image information, for each patient; and storing the plurality of processed abnormal pattern results and the plurality of corrected abnormal pattern results for each patient, wherein said correcting step includes canceling a pattern which is not abnormal within the processed and displayed abnormal pattern, and adding an abnormal pattern which was not detected by the abnormal pattern detection; and said relating step includes determining a cancelled abnormal pattern as an FP, a non-cancelled abnormal pattern as a TP, and an added abnormal pattern as an FN.