DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL IMAGING

A method and device for medical imaging, in particular intra-operative imaging of a patient's body are disclosed. Fluorescence and live images are acquired by an imaging unit. A processing unit adapts one or more image capturing or processing parameters if the images are acquired in a static motion state. This reduces noise in the fluorescence images so the processing unit can detect a region of interest in the fluorescence images. The processing unit maps the region of interest into the live images. If the images are acquired in a moving motion state, the region of interest may be tracked by the processing unit and mapped back into the fluorescence images. In the moving state, the processing unit is configured to apply a spatially selective noise filter which distinguishes between the region of interest and the remaining region enhancing the quality of the fluorescence images without erasing details with noise filtering.