Medical image processing apparatus and medical image diagnostic apparatus for associating a positional relation of a breast between pieces of image data

A medical image processing apparatus comprising:

• processing circuitry configured to:
• analyze a first piece of image data obtained by imaging a breast of a subject and a second piece of image data obtained by imaging the breast, and detect positions of a chest wall and a nipple in each of the pieces of image data, wherein the first piece of image data and the second piece of image data are three-dimensional medical image data and are obtained by different types of medical image diagnostic apparatuses,
• generate a first sectional image based on the first piece of image data and generates a second sectional image based on the second piece of image data, and
• associate a positional relation of the breast in the first piece of image data and the second piece of image data so that the positions of the chest wall and the nipple match between the first and the second pieces of image data, wherein
• the processing circuitry is further configured to generate the first sectional image and the second sectional image corresponding to a mutually same position based on the positional relation of the breast.

A medical image diagnostic apparatus comprising:

• processing circuitry configured to:
• analyze a first piece of image data obtained by imaging a breast of a subject and a second piece of image data obtained by imaging the breast, and detect positions of a chest wall and a nipple in each of the pieces of image data, wherein the first piece of image data and the second piece of image data are three-dimensional medical image data and are obtained by different types of medical image diagnostic apparatuses,
• generate a first sectional image based on the first piece of image data and generates a second sectional image based on the second piece of image data,
• associate a positional relation of the breast in the first piece of image data and the second piece of image data so that the positions of the chest wall and the nipple match between the first and the second pieces of image data, and
• display on a display the first sectional image, the second sectional image, and a mark indicating the position of the first piece of image data on the second piece of image data.