SURGERY SUPPORT APPARATUS, SURGERY SUPPORT METHOD, AND SURGERY SUPPORT PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To superpose and display a presurgical diagnostic image onto the image of an affected part by an extremely inexpensive configuration without burdening a patient. SOLUTION: The surgery support apparatus 1 obtains a three-dimensional image from a diagnostic image of a subject imaged at a diagnostic image acquiring unit 3 before the surgery and an observation image of the subject imaged by an observation image acquiring unit 2 during the surgery, makes the three-dimensional image correspond to the observation image by an image corresponding unit 4, and automatically detects feature points within the observation image by a feature point detecting unit 5 according to a predetermined condition. A coordinates value of the feature point is obtained based on a corresponding relationship between the correspondent three-dimensional image and the observation image by the feature point coordingate obtaining unit 6. The three-dimensional model image is superposed and displayed onto the observation image from the obtained coordinates value of the feature point and the coordinates information of the three-dimensional model image by a position posture calculating unit 7 and an image displaying unit 8. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT