Patent ID: 7933437

Claim:
An information processing apparatus which acquires a schema of an object and corresponding medical image data of the schema from an examination record database and displays them on a display unit, the schema at recording least time information and disease locus information, said information processing apparatus comprising: an input unit which inputs object identification information for identifying an object; an acquiring unit which acquires, from the examination record database based on said object identification information inputted by said input unit, one or more schemas related to the object and medical image data related to the schema; an identification unit which identifies a disease locus region in medical image data respectively related to each of the one or more schemas, based on the disease locus information recorded in each of the one or more schemas; a time-series schema generating unit which generates a time-series schema of the disease locus based on respective time information of each of the one or more schemas and respective disease locus information recorded in each of the one or more schemas; a time-series image data generating unit which generates time-series image data of the disease locus based on respective time information of each of the one or more schemas and respective disease locus images in medical image data related to each of the one or more schemas; and a display output unit which synchronizes and outputs the time-series schema of the disease locus and the time-series image data of the disease locus to the display unit for display.