Patent ID: 7894676

Claim:
A diagnosis support apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store image feature information and a finding sentence as an interpretation result in correspondence with each other; an acquisition unit configured to acquire image feature information of a target area designated on an image to be interpreted; a search unit configured to search said storage unit for image feature information similar to the image feature information acquired by said acquisition unit and acquire a finding sentence stored in correspondence with the retrieved image feature information from said storage unit; and a creation unit configured to created a finding sentence concerning interpretation of the designated target area by changing, based on image feature information of the target area acquired by said acquisition unit, a description of the finding sentence acquired by said search unit, wherein said creation unit comprises: an extraction unit configured to extract a description corresponding to each feature item of image feature information by performing syntax analysis of the finding sentence acquired by said search unit; and a changing unit configured to change the description extracted by said extraction unit, based on a content of each feature item of the image feature information of the target area.