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Computer-aided detection and characterization of stroke lesion – a short review on the current state-of-the art methods

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Pages 1-22 | Received 24 Dec 2016, Accepted 19 Aug 2017, Published online: 08 Sep 2017
 

ABSTRACT

The fast advancements in the field of computer vision, progress in radiology, image processing, modelling and simulation have changed the medical science to diagnose people in an efficient way. To be exact, the headways in medical imaging have prompted better diagnostic planning and accuracy in surgical methodology with little human–machine intervention. Stroke remains the third driving reason for death, after heart attack and cancer. Automatic computer-aided diagnosis of brain diseases has been gaining significant attention in the last two decades. The aim of this work is to review the current state-of-the-art techniques employed for segmentation, classification and detection of stroke lesion and present the key challenges in it. By investigating the advanced aspects and significant pitfalls of the different surveyed techniques, an overview on the performance of these methods is presented in this work.

Acknowledgement

We thank Dr C. Emmanuel, Director – Academics and Research, Global Hospitals and Health City and Dr Halprashanth – Consultant Neurologist, Global Hospitals and Health City for supporting us to perform this research.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

R. Karthik obtained his Master’s degree from Anna University, India. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Electronics Engineering, VIT Chennai. His research interest includes digital image processing, medical image processing and data mining.

R. Menaka completed her Masters in Applied Electronics from Anna University, Chennai, India. She received her Doctoral degree from Anna University. She is currently working as an Associate Professor in the School of Electronics Engineering, VIT, Chennai. Her areas of interest are image processing, neural networks and fuzzy logic.

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