1. A fluorescence image processing apparatus for enhancing a fluorescence image, the fluorescence image processing apparatus comprising: an image segmentation unit adapted to segment the fluorescence image into one or more areas of interest and one or more background areas; a background determination unit adapted to measure a background signal in the fluorescence image; a background reduction unit adapted to reduce the background signal in the one or more background areas, but not in the one or more areas of interest, in response to the measurement of the background signal; and an image enhancement unit adapted to enhance the one or more areas of interest, but not the one or more background areas.