WHITE-MATTER ENHANCING APPARATUS, WHITE-MATTER ENHANCING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a white-matter enhancing apparatus, method, and program enabling analysis of the growth of the brain of an organism, the degree of development thereof, the superiority of the left or right brain, discrimination of strong and weak areas, and the brain characteristics of the organism such as personality of the organism.;SOLUTION: The white-matter enhancing apparatus A comprises: a storage section 5 which receives a contrast image of the brain of an organism captured by an MRI apparatus B and stores it; a white-matter enhanced image creating section 6 for creating a white-matter enhanced image based on the contrast image stored in the storage section 5 in which the white-matter is enhanced by adjusting the contrast of the stored contrast image so that the white-matter may be conspicuous and the cortex may be inconspicuous, a display processing section 7 for allowing an output section 2 to display the created white-matter enhanced image by the white-matter enhanced image creating section 6, and an arborization pattern analyzing section 8 for analyzing the brain characteristics of the organism by using one of the number, thicknesses, lengths, positions, densities, shapes, and sizes of the branches shown in the white-matter enhanced image or a combination of them.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT