A body cavity observation apparatus comprising:
a treatment tool to be inserted into a body cavity of a subject with an insertion tool as a guide,
an observation section attached to an opening of a body wall of the subject, a monitor for displaying the body cavity captured by the observation section, and
a marker position-detecting device for detecting a position of a marker part applied to the treatment tool or insertion tool from an image showing the body cavity captured by the observation section; wherein
the marker position-detecting device comprises:
a pixel extracting device for extracting a group of pixels in the same color as color of the marker part from the image, and
a calculation device for calculating a position of the barycenter of the group of pixels as a position of the marker part.