In an organ-region-indication system incorporated in an electronic endoscope
system
in which an endoscope image is displayed as a motion image on a monitor in accordance
with a video signal produced therein, an organ-region-image data base is formed
based on an organ map. A plurality of reference data indicating organ-regions and
a plurality of image data representing the organ-region are correspondingly stored
in the data base. Still image data is retrieved as referential image data from
the video signal at suitable regular time intervals. The data base is searched
for image data which coincides with the referential image data after the retrieval
of the still image data. Corresponding reference data is displayed on the monitor
only when the image data, which coincides with the referential image data, is found
by the searching.