Calculating accurate volume of spontaneous intracerebral hematoma

In this paper we introduce a method for calculating the volume of spontaneous intracerebral hematomas from a sequence of tomographic scans. The described approach is a modification of a gold standard method called step-section planimetry. It uses image interpolation techniques to increase the accuracy of the obtained volume and employs semi-automatic segmentation to facilitate physicians' work. The method is designed to perform especially well for highly irregular shapes that are characteristic for intracerebral hematomas. The obtained results are compared with two existing commercial approaches.