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Intracranial hemorrhage detection using spatial fuzzy c-mean and region-based active contour on brain CT imaging

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Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) detection is the primary task for the patients suffering from neurological disturbances and head injury. This paper presents a segmentation technique that combines the features of fuzzy c-mean (FCM) clustering and region-based active contour method. In the suggested method, the fuzzy membership degree from FCM clustering is first used to initialize the active contour, which propagates for the detection of the desired object. In addition to active contour initialization, the fuzzy clustering is also used to estimate the contour propagation controlling parameters. The level set function as used by active contour in the proposed method does not need re-initialization process; thus, it fastens the convergent speed of the contour propagation. The efficacy of the suggested method is demonstrated on a dataset of 20 brain computed tomography (CT) images suffered with ICH. Experimental results show that the proposed method has advantages in accuracy in comparison with standard region growing method and FCM for the detection of hemorrhage from brain CT images.

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Bhadauria, H.S., Dewal, M.L. Intracranial hemorrhage detection using spatial fuzzy c-mean and region-based active contour on brain CT imaging. SIViP 8, 357–364 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-012-0298-0

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