FULLY COMPUTERIZED ABC/2 BRAIN HEMORRHAGE VOLUME APPROXIMATION
Keywords:
Brain hemorrhage, CT scan slice, Ellipse FittingAbstract
A hemorrhage volume is one of an essential information for a neurosurgeon to assess a severity level in the brain of a patient. The processes of approximation and evaluation can be very time consuming as there are up to 256 slices per patient to be evaluated and the shapes and sizes of the hemorrhages can be difficult to detect or evaluate the volume. Surprisingly, there are not much software that can automatically and fully computerize the processes. In this paper, we computerized steps in the conventional brain hemorrhage volume approximation ABC/2. We achieved an average of 2.33 cm3 absolute error of the volume or 8.8% average relative error compared to the ground truths’ volumes.
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