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Spotting brain bleeding after sparse training

Accurate and explainable detection, via deep learning, of acute intracranial haemorrhage from computed tomography images of the head is achievable with small amounts of data for model training.

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Fig. 1: Activation maps and sets of relevant prediction bases help explain the predictions of a deep-learning algorithm for detecting intracranial haemorrhage in computed-tomography images.

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Muelly, M.C., Peng, L. Spotting brain bleeding after sparse training. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 161–162 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0368-5

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