Weakly supervised deep learning-based intracranial hemorrhage localization

Abstract

Intracranial hemorrhage is a life-threatening disease, which requires fast medical intervention. Owing to the duration of data annotation, head CT images are usually available only with slice-level labeling. This paper presents a weakly supervised method of precise hemorrhage localization in axial slices using only position-free labels, which is based on multiple instance learning. An algorithm is introduced that generates hemorrhage likelihood maps and finds the coordinates of bleeding. The Dice coefficient of 58.08 % is achieved on data from a publicly available dataset.