Hitachi, Ltd.

Yuuichi Morimoto

Kikuo Umegaki

Wataru Takeuchi

Kazuki Matsuzaki

Koichi Yasuda

Tohru Shiga

The present invention correlates information, to be processed, about an organ and/or a disease, etc., obtained from a medical image and anatomical/functional medical knowledge information, and enables the information obtained from the medial image to be effectively utilized in medical examination and treatment processes. In a medical image information system (), an image processing unit () processes an image, a graph model creation unit () creates a graph data model from the information obtained from the image, a graph data model processing unit () acquires a graph data model based on anatomical/functional medical knowledge, compares with each other and integrates the graph data models and stores an integrated graph data model, and a display processing unit () displays the integrated graph data model, whereby the effective use of information obtained from the image is made possible.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuuichi Morimoto