A diagnostic support system by which anatomical charts can be referred to
easily by a simple operation with no need to store image data
representing anatomical charts in each medical facility. This system
includes a client terminal for transmitting image data, which represents
a medical image obtained by imaging intended for diagnosis, and
information on an examination utilizing the medical image to the database
server, retransmitting the information on the examination to the database
server when requesting anatomical chart data, and displaying an image
including the anatomical chart based on the anatomical chart data
received from the database server; and a database server for recording
the received image data etc. in a first recording medium, and retrieving
corresponding anatomical chart data from a second recording medium, in
which plural kinds of anatomical chart data are recorded, to transmit the
retrieved anatomical chart data to the client terminal.