Patent ID: 8419186

Claim:
A fundus observation apparatus comprising: an optical coherence tomography device that has an optical scanner for setting an image pickup position on a fundus of an examinee's eye, and is arranged to obtain a tomographic image of the fundus; an information display unit that is arranged to display on a monitor the tomographic image obtained by the optical coherence tomography device and assisting information for assisting an examiner in performing judgment on the tomographic image; and an arithmetic analysis unit that is arranged to detect information on layers of the fundus in the tomographic image through image processing, and determines the tomographic image by determining the detected layer information by a given determination criterion, wherein the information display unit is arranged to change the assisting information based on image pickup information on the tomographic image; the arithmetic analysis unit is arranged to change the determination criterion based on at least the image pickup information; and the information display unit is arranged to display a first determination result obtained by the arithmetic analysis unit as the assisting information on the monitor.