IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM

The present invention provides an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of appropriately correcting contrast even for an image in which the amplitude of the reflection rate differs for each local area of the image. The present invention provides an image processing device, comprising: a signal intensity extraction unit configured to extract signal intensity of an input image; a peripheral region reference value calculator configured to calculate a peripheral region reference value based on the signal intensity of a peripheral region located around a small region of interest; and an emphasis degree determination unit configured to determine an emphasis degree of the signal intensity so as to increase the signal intensity of the small region, wherein the signal intensity is defined as a reflection rate in the input image input to the image processing device, the small region is defined as a region which is a part of the input image and comprises at least one pixel, and the emphasis degree is monotonically non-decreasing with respect to a difference between the peripheral region reference value and a predetermined value.