DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR LESION IN LUNG FIELD, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING SAME

摘要

Disclosed is a novel diagnosis support means that has excellent performance of diagnosing a lesion in a lung field such as interstitial pneumonia and enables differentiation between IPF and NSIP which has been regarded as very difficult. The diagnosis support system according to the present invention for a lesion in a lung filed comprises: an image acquisition unit for acquiring a breast tomographic image obtained by photographing a subject; a lung peripheral region extraction unit for, from the breast tomographic image, extracting a peripheral region of the lung at an arbitrarily preset depth from the pleural surface; a feature amount acquisition unit for acquiring one or more feature amounts from the lung peripheral region; a lesion identification unit for identifying a lesion within the lung peripheral region on the basis of the one or more feature amounts acquired above; and an output unit for outputting the result of the lesion identification.