A survey of deep learning-based MRI stroke lesion segmentation methods

Abstract

Automatic stroke lesion segmentation has become a research hotspot in recent years.In order to comprehensively review current progress of deep learning-based MRI stroke lesion segmentation methods, start with the clinical problems of stroke treatment, we further elaborate the research background and challenges of deep learning-based lesion segmentation, and introduce common public datasets (ISLES and ATLAS) for stroke lesion segmentation.Then, we focus on the innovation and progress of deep learning-based stroke lesion segmentation methods, and summarize the research progress from three perspectives: network structure, training strategy, and loss function, and compare the advantages and disadvantages of various methods.Finally, we discusse the difficulties and challenges in this research and its future development trend.

Keywords

• stroke;medical image segmentation;computer vision;deep learning;neural network