Image diagnosis assistance apparatus, image diagnosis assistance system and image diagnosis assistance method

An image diagnosis assistance system comprising:

• an imaging device configured to generate a captured image by capturing an image of a subject;
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• an image diagnosis assistance apparatus configured to process the captured image, the image diagnosis assistance apparatus comprising a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to
• select, as a diagnosis image, any one of a plurality of images that contain a same subject and on which sets of processing different from one another are executed on the captured image,
• by executing an estimation process on the diagnosis image using a trained model, estimate a diagnostic candidate area serving as a diagnostic candidate in the diagnosis image and output reliability of the diagnostic candidate area, and
• when the reliability of the diagnostic candidate area satisfies a given condition, switch the diagnosis image that is selected currently to another image of the plurality of images and executes the estimation process anew.

An image diagnosis assistance method that an image diagnosis assistance apparatus executes, the method comprising:

• selecting, as a diagnosis image, any one of a plurality of images that contain a same subject and on which sets of processing different from one another are executed;
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• by executing an estimation process on the diagnosis image using a trained model, estimating a diagnostic candidate area serving as a diagnostic candidate in the diagnosis image and outputting reliability of the diagnostic candidate area;
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• when the reliability of the diagnostic candidate area satisfies a given condition, switching the diagnosis image that is selected currently to another image of the plurality of images and executing the estimation process anew.