Cerebral microbleed (CMB) the small vessels in the brain which is one of the major factors used to facilitate in the early stage diagnosis for Alzheimer’s disease detection. In traditional, CMBs detection can be done manually by the neurologists, doctors or specialists. However, the process is time-consuming and the results are not accurate depending on the doctor experiences. Therefore the efficient and reliable of the automatic detection of CMB is needed. This paper proposes a new framework for CMB detection which employs segmentation of the region of interests (ROIs), detection of the CMBs and identification of the area from SWI scan images. Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) is applied to generate the desired models for later prediction. Shape matching mechanism is also applied to identify locations of CMB in the brain. The experimental result shows that the CMB can be classified with a recorded accuracy value of 95.45%. The CMBs were discovered from three different locations include (i) cortical region, (ii) cerebellum and (iii) brainstem with an accuracy value of 100%.
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