RESPIRATION MONITORING APPARATUS, RESPIRATION MONITORING SYSTEM, MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM, RESPIRATION MONITORING METHOD, RESPIRATION MONITORING PROGRAM

摘要

A respiration monitoring apparatus comprises: an image acquisition section for acquiring at each predetermined timing the image of an objective area including at least one of the breast and the abdomen of an examinee picked up with a predetermined angle against the objective area; and an expiration and inspiration judging section for judging the moving direction of pixels on the image from temporal displacement thereof according to a plurality of images acquired continuously at the predetermined timing in the image acquiring section, and judging expiration and inspiration of the examinee according to the moving direction thus judged.