The invention discloses a generative adversarial network improved CT medical image pulmonary nodule detection method. The method includes: 1), acquiring a section of a pulmonary CT image; 2), separating according to image morphological properties to acquire a ROI pulmonary parenchyma area; 3), acquiring different suspected pulmonary nodule candidate sets according to a connected domain formed by abinarized image; 4), building a model of an assistant classifier generative adversarial network to generate positive samples overcome the circumstance that positive-negative sample number is unbalanced; 5), building a convolution neural network to classify suspected pulmonary nodule parts to acquire pulmonary nodule areas; 6), using a non-maximum suppression algorithm to acquire a final area of pulmonary nodule. By the method, efficient processing performance of a computer can be fully utilized, certain expandability is provided, and data processing efficiency is improved; through a convolution neural network algorithm, classifying accuracy is improved, CT image data processing performance is improved, and pulmonary nodule images can be built and analyzed more efficiently.