Acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation in non-contrast CT images using 3D convolutional neural networks
A. V. Dobshik, S. K. Verbitskiy, I. A. Pestunov, K. M. Sherman, Yu. N. Sinyavskiy, A. A. Tulupov, V. B. Berikov

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