Segmentation of Ischemic stroke in Brain DWI MRI
K. Srisabarimani, R. Arthi · 2024
A stroke is a medical emergency, and quick treatment is essential. Brain damage and other consequences can be minimized with early intervention. When blood supply to a region of the brain is reduced or stopped, it might result in an ischemic stroke because the damaged brain tissue cannot recover. A blockage in the blood supply or a burst blood artery inside the brain is the two conditions that lead to strokes. Strokes can be classified into two fundamental categories. ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. ischemic strokes caused by artery blockage. All strokes are ischemic in about 87% of cases. When a blood vessel that supplies the brain becomes blocked it prevents blood flow to a specific area of the brain, resulting in an ischemic stroke. Within minutes, the tissues and cells in the brain begin to degenerate due to a lack of oxygen and nutrients. The proposed works creates essay to offer a theoretical framework for assisting clinicians in identifying brain stroke in patients. Brain strokes have been discovered using image segmentation. The study used Python software to analyze a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain stroke image.