Automated segmentation of lacunes of presumed vascular origin in brain MRI scans

Lacunes of presumed vascular origin (lacunes) are small lesions in the brain and are an important indicator of cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD). To gain more insight in this disease, obtaining more information about the shape, size and location of lacunes is essential. However, manual segmentation (the voxel-wise labeling of lacunes in a...