IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE MEDICAL IMAGE

摘要

The present invention relates to a medical imaging apparatus, an image processing apparatus and an image merging method to effectively and accurately correct a specific movement of a patient when performing image matching of different modalities of images. The medical imaging apparatus to merge a first image and a second image, which have a different modality from each other, according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a storage unit to store a patient-adaptive object model in which a statistical object model related to transformation of an object caused by a periodic movement is applied to characteristics of the object of a target patient, and a second image of the target patient; an image acquisition unit to acquire a first image of the target patient; and an image merging unit to transform the second image based on an error between a shape of the object extracted from the patient-adaptive object model and a shape of the object displayed on the first image.