A myelin image is generated with a stable contrast regardless of an imaging condition with an MRI apparatus that measures an echo signal generated from a subject by applying a high-frequency magnetic field and a gradient magnetic field to the subject placed in a static magnetic field according to a predetermined imaging sequence. A reconstructed image is obtained from the echo signal. A distribution of a quantitative value of the subject is estimated using a plurality of the reconstructed images, each of which is obtained by a plurality of types of imaging having different imaging conditions of the imaging sequence, and a signal function defining a relationship between the quantitative value of the subject and a signal value of the reconstructed image. An image generation unit generates an arbitrary image from the distribution of the quantitative value.
