BHSD: A 3D Multi-Class Brain Hemorrhage Segmentation Dataset
This dataset addresses a gap for researchers and clinicians in medical imaging by enabling multi-class ICH segmentation, but it is incremental as it builds on existing deep learning techniques without introducing new methods.
The authors tackled the lack of a public dataset for multi-class intracranial hemorrhage segmentation by developing BHSD, a 3D dataset with 192 volumes of pixel-level annotations and 2200 volumes of slice-level annotations across five ICH categories, and they provided benchmark results using state-of-the-art models.
Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is a pathological condition characterized by bleeding inside the skull or brain, which can be attributed to various factors. Identifying, localizing and quantifying ICH has important clinical implications, in a bleed-dependent manner. While deep learning techniques are widely used in medical image segmentation and have been applied to the ICH segmentation task, existing public ICH datasets do not support the multi-class segmentation problem. To address this, we develop the Brain Hemorrhage Segmentation Dataset (BHSD), which provides a 3D multi-class ICH dataset containing 192 volumes with pixel-level annotations and 2200 volumes with slice-level annotations across five categories of ICH. To demonstrate the utility of the dataset, we formulate a series of supervised and semi-supervised ICH segmentation tasks. We provide experimental results with state-of-the-art models as reference benchmarks for further model developments and evaluations on this dataset.