| abstract |
There are provided an image processing device that can perform at least one of the calculation of an index value related to a stage of ulcerative colitis, the determination of a stage of ulcerative colitis, or the determination of whether or not ulcerative colitis has remitted without performing a biopsy, and a method of operating the image processing device.A disease-related processing section (66) performs at least one of the calculation of an index value related to a stage of ulcerative colitis, the determination of the stage of the ulcerative colitis, or the determination of whether or not the ulcerative colitis has remitted, on the basis of the denseness of superficial blood vessels, intramucosal hemorrhage, and extramucosal hemorrhage obtained from a medical image. |