Fatty tissue image display device

A fatty tissue image display device, comprising:

• a heater configured to heat a target region within a body;
• an ultrasonic wave transmitter configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave signal to the target region;
• an ultrasonic wave receiver configured to receive an ultrasonic wave echo signal from the target region;
• and
• a computer device including a CPU and a memory, the computer device configured to:
• calculate a change in a velocity of the ultrasonic waves at each point within the target region before and after the target region is heated based on an ultrasonic wave echo signal received from the target region before the target region is heated and an ultrasonic wave echo signal received from the target region after the target region is heated;
• display distribution of a calculated change in the velocity of the ultrasonic waves as a tomographic image on a screen of a display device, the distribution of the calculated change in the velocity of the ultrasonic waves being represented based on luminance information or color information;
• designate part of said tomographic image as a region of interest;
• calculate histograms of a fatty region showing a negative change in the velocity of the ultrasonic waves and a normal region showing a positive change in the velocity of the ultrasonic waves from the luminance information or color information within the designated region of interest;
• and
• calculate a fatty change index that is an index of a proportion of fatty tissue from the histogram of the normal region only within the designated region of interest and the histogram of the fatty region within the designated region of interest, wherein
• the computer device is further configured to
• rank the luminance information or color information in multiple levels and display the ranked luminance information or color information on the screen when displaying the distribution of the calculated change in the velocity of the ultrasonic waves, and
• calculate the fatty change index that is weighted based on the ranked luminance information or color information.