APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ISOLATING REGION IN IMAGE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and method capable of isolating regions of an imaging subject.SOLUTION: A program includes instructions which cause a computer to: access a first anatomical image data set of an imaging subject acquired via a morphological imaging modality in step 102; access a functional image data set of the imaging subject acquired via a functional imaging modality in step 104; register the first anatomical image data set to the functional image data set in step 106; segment the functional image data set based on the functional image data set in step 108; define a binary mask based on the segmented functional image data set in step 110; apply the binary mask to the first anatomical image data set in step 112 to construct a second anatomical image data set; and construct an image based on the second anatomical data set. The second anatomical image data set is substantially free of image data of the first anatomical image data set correlating to an area outside the region of physiological activity.