MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

An apparatus, a system, a method, and a program for medical image processing are provided. The apparatus includes one or more processors configured to acquire an endoscopic image generated through imaging of a living body, perform classification of lesion regions contained in the endoscopic image into two or more classes, identify a classification contributing region in the endoscopic image, the classification contributing region contributing, with a degree of contribution, to the classification of one of the lesion regions contained in the endoscopic image, generate a region image displaying a region in the endoscopic image, the region image displaying the classification contributing region with a density or a heat map according to the degree of contribution, and display the region image along with the endoscopic image on a monitor, where the region image is displayed at a position different from a position at which the endoscopic image is displayed.