Review of methods for automatic cerebral microbleeds detection
It addresses the time-consuming task for radiologists by summarizing current research, but is incremental as it only reviews existing work.
This paper reviews existing methods for automatic cerebral microbleeds detection from MRI to systematize knowledge and facilitate the development of a practical medical system, but does not present new experimental results or concrete numbers.
Cerebral microbleeds detection is an important and challenging task. With the gaining popularity of the MRI, the ability to detect cerebral microbleeds also raises. Unfortunately, for radiologists, it is a time-consuming and laborious procedure. For this reason, various solutions to automate this process have been proposed for several years, but none of them is currently used in medical practice. In this context, the need to systematize the existing knowledge and best practices has been recognized as a factor facilitating the imminent synthesis of a real CMBs detection system practically applicable in medicine. To the best of our knowledge, all available publications regarding automatic cerebral microbleeds detection have been gathered, described, and assessed in this paper in order to distinguish the current research state and provide a starting point for future studies.