Image display apparatus, image display method, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

Abstract

In a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) apparatus, a Region Of Interest (ROI) setting unit included in a control unit sets an ROI on each of a T 1 weighted image, a T 2 weighted image, and a flair image of a brain of a subject, and a feature-analysis processing unit creates a histogram of statistics with respect to each of a plurality of images based on pixel values of pixels included in the ROI set by the ROI setting unit. A display control unit then causes a display unit to display the images in substantially the same position in a display area included in the display unit by switching the images in a certain order, and to display the histogram created by the feature-analysis processing unit in the same display area.

1 . An image display apparatus comprising:
 a mode changing unit that changes a display mode of image with respect to each of a plurality of images that is imaged by a diagnostic imaging apparatus and includes a same portion of a subject; and   a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the images of each of which the display mode is changed by the mode changing unit in a substantially same position in a display area included in the display unit by switching the images in an order prescribed.   
     
     
         2 . The image display apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the mode changing unit changes a size of image with respect to each of the images. 
     
     
         3 . The image display apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the mode changing unit changes a shape of image with respect to each of the images. 
     
     
         4 . An image display method comprising:
 changing a display mode of image with respect to each of a plurality of images that is imaged by a diagnostic imaging apparatus and includes a same portion of a subject; and   causing a display unit to display the images of each of which the display mode is changed, by switching the images in an order prescribed, in a substantially same position in a display area included in the display unit.   
     
     
         5 . A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising:
 an imaging unit that takes a plurality of images that includes a same portion of a subject;   a mode changing unit that changes a display mode of image with respect to each of the images taken by the imaging unit; and   a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the images of which the display mode is changed by the mode changing unit, by switching the images in an order prescribed, in a substantially same position in a display area included in the display unit.