For the purpose of preventing a situation in which the fiber density looks
as if it suddenly decreases in a specific view direction, a method
comprises: specifying a region of interest R1 in MR image data collected
by a diffusion tensor method; defining regular grid points in the region
of interest R1; defining points obtained by randomly moving the grid
points as tracking start points S1, S2, . . . ; performing diffusion
tensor analysis on each tracking start point S1, S2, . . . in the image
data to determine a direction of a principal axis vector; tracking a
fiber by repeatedly selecting a neighbor point along the direction of the
principal axis vector and performing diffusion tensor analysis on the
neighbor point to determine the direction of the principal axis vector;
and producing and displaying an image of the tracked fibers as viewed in
a desired view direction.