MixMicrobleed: Multi-stage detection and segmentation of cerebral microbleeds

Abstract

Cerebral microbleeds are small, dark, round lesions that can be visualised on T2*-weighted MRI or other sequences sensitive to susceptibility effects. In this work, we propose a multi-stage approach to both microbleed detection and segmentation. First, possible microbleed locations are detected with a Mask R-CNN technique. Second, at each possible microbleed location, a simple U-Net performs the final segmentation. This work used the 72 subjects as training data provided by the "Where is VALDO?" challenge of MICCAI 2021.

Submitted to the "Where is VALDO?" challenge, MICCAI 2021