Patent Document ID: 10123780
Application ID: 14616216
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A medical image diagnosis apparatus, comprising: processing circuitry that generates a lumen image depicting a shape of a lumen having a branch, based on volume data that is three-dimensional medical image data; generates a plurality of running lines based on a shape of the lumen having the branch; generates a synthetic image by superimposing, on the lumen image, the plurality of the running lines indicating moving paths of a viewpoint in a virtual endoscopy image of the lumen having the branch; displays the synthetic image on a display; and performs depiction that distinguishes between a first section of a running line, of the plurality of running lines, along which a virtual endoscopy image has been displayed as a moving image by moving a viewpoint along the running line of the lumen and a second section of the running line along which no virtual endoscopy image has been displayed as the moving image, wherein the processing circuitry displays the virtual endoscopy image of the lumen having the branch along the running line, which is specified among the plurality of the running lines on the display, displays a first mark on a section image obtained by cutting the volume data along a section including a position of the viewpoint used for generation of the virtual endoscopy image specified by an operator, and displays a second mark at a position on the running line corresponding to the position of the viewpoint used for generation of the virtual endoscopy image in the synthetic image during a display of the virtual endoscopy image.