Method for manufacturing three-dimensional molded model and support tool for medical treatment, medical training, research, and education

Provided is a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional molded model that can reproduce the feel of an organ or the like for a specialist such as a physician. A three-dimensional shape of a body site subject to molding is extracted from brightness information of two-dimensional data obtained from a medical diagnostic device, and three-dimensional molding data of the body site and the internal structure site thereof is created. The three-dimensional shape data is edited by using a modeling function. Respective touch equivalent parameter tables of the body site and the internal structural site are created. The material type and the formulation ratio of the modeling material used for molding each body site and internal structural site are defined, and added to the touch equivalent parameter tables. Primitive shape data is generated from the parameters of the touch equivalent parameter tables, and a Boolean operation is performed on the site data of the body site and internal structure site as well as on the p