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An endoscope system includes an image processing unit obtaining a severity of a lesion of a biological tissue in which a degree of lesion is digitized, from an image of the biological tissue that is obtained by imaging the biological tissue in a body cavity. The image processing unit includes a feature amount calculation unit calculating a plurality of pixel evaluation values corresponding to a plurality of features of an appearance, which are capable of discriminating each of the plurality of features of the appearance from a feature of a normal portion of the biological tissue by a shape and indicate each degree of plurality of features relevant to the color component indicated by the lesion portion or the color component and the shape, a representative value calculation unit calculating a representative evaluation value corresponding to each of the plurality of features of the imaged biological tissue.
