New Adaptive Morphological Geodesic Active Contour Method for Segmentation of Hemorrhagic Stroke in Computed Tomography Image.

This work proposes a new approach to segmentation of hemorrhagic stroke (HS) based on morphological geodesic active contour method, with automatic initialization near to lesion region, without previous training, called Adaptive Morphological Geodesic Active Contour (Ada-MGAC). To evaluate the performance, we used 100 computed tomography images with HS of volunteers. These samples were compared against segmentation methods from specialized literature. A manual segmentation from a medical specialist was considered as the gold standard. The results indicate a competitive potential of Ada-MGAC and method showed a mean convergency time about 3 s, indicating a fast result to medical analysis. Thus, it is possible to conclude that the proposed approach can be used to aid medical diagnosis in the cerebral vascular accident.