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Fetal brain extraction is a necessary first step in most computational fetal brain MRI pipelines. However, it has been a very challenging task due to non-standard fetal head pose, fetal movements during examination, and vastly heterogeneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Razieh Faghihpirayesh , Davood Karimi , Deniz Erdoğmuş , Ali Gholipour

Introduction: This study presents FetalSleepNet, the first published deep learning approach to classifying sleep states from the ovine electroencephalogram (EEG). Fetal EEG is complex to acquire and difficult and laborious to interpret…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Weitao Tang , Johann Vargas-Calixto , Nasim Katebi , Nhi Tran , Sharmony B. Kelly , Gari D. Clifford , Robert Galinsky , Faezeh Marzbanrad

Multiple studies have demonstrated that obtaining standardized fetal brain biometry from mid-trimester ultrasonography (USG) examination is key for the reliable assessment of fetal neurodevelopment and the screening of central nervous…

Measurement of head biometrics from fetal ultrasonography images is of key importance in monitoring the healthy development of fetuses. However, the accurate measurement of relevant anatomical structures is subject to large inter-observer…

Deep-learning (DL) algorithms are becoming the standard for processing ultrasound (US) fetal images. Despite a large number of survey papers already present in this field, most of them are focusing on a broader area of medical-image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Maria Chiara Fiorentino , Francesca Pia Villani , Mariachiara Di Cosmo , Emanuele Frontoni , Sara Moccia

Accurate classification of second-trimester fetal ultrasound images remains challenging due to low image quality, high intra-class variability, and significant class imbalance. In this work, we introduce a simple yet powerful, biologically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Rinat Prochii , Elizaveta Dakhova , Pavel Birulin , Maxim Sharaev

Recent medical vision-language models have shown promise on tasks such as VQA, report generation, and anomaly detection. However, most are adapted to structured adult imaging and underperform in fetal ultrasound, which poses challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xiao He , Huangxuan Zhao , Guojia Wan , Wei Zhou , Yanxing Liu , Juhua Liu , Yongchao Xu , Yong Luo , Dacheng Tao , Bo Du

Developing innovative informatics approaches aimed to enhance fetal monitoring is a burgeoning field of study in reproductive medicine. Several reviews have been conducted regarding Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to improve…

Fetal brain segmentation is an important first step for slice-level motion correction and slice-to-volume reconstruction in fetal MRI. Fast and accurate segmentation of the fetal brain on fetal MRI is required to achieve real-time fetal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-05 Razieh Faghihpirayesh , Davood Karimi , Deniz Erdogmus , Ali Gholipour

The increase of available large clinical and experimental datasets has contributed to a substantial amount of important contributions in the area of biomedical image analysis. Image segmentation, which is crucial for any quantitative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Nikhil Kumar Tomar , Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Håvard D. Johansen , Dag Johansen , Jens Rittscher , Pål Halvorsen , Sharib Ali

Brain segmentation is a fundamental first step in neuroimage analysis. In the case of fetal MRI, it is particularly challenging and important due to the arbitrary orientation of the fetus, organs that surround the fetal head, and…

Fetal ultrasound (US) examinations require the acquisition of multiple planes, each providing unique diagnostic information to evaluate fetal development and screening for congenital anomalies. However, obtaining a comprehensive,…

Automatic fetal brain tissue segmentation can enhance the quantitative assessment of brain development at this critical stage. Deep learning methods represent the state of the art in medical image segmentation and have also achieved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Davood Karimi , Caitlin K. Rollins , Clemente Velasco-Annis , Abdelhakim Ouaalam , Ali Gholipour

Ultrasound-based fetal biometric measurements, such as head circumference (HC) and biparietal diameter (BPD), are commonly used to evaluate the gestational age and diagnose fetal central nervous system (CNS) pathology. Since manual…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Hwa Pyung Kim , Sung Min Lee , Ja-Young Kwon , Yejin Park , Kang Cheol Kim , Jin Keun Seo

This paper introduces a novel pipeline designed to bring ultrasound (US) plane pose estimation closer to clinical use for more effective navigation to the standard planes (SPs) in the fetal brain. We propose a semi-supervised segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Chiara Di Vece , Antonio Cirigliano , Meala Le Lous , Raffaele Napolitano , Anna L. David , Donald Peebles , Pierre Jannin , Francisco Vasconcelos , Danail Stoyanov

Automatic segmentation of the fetal brain is still challenging due to the health state of fetal development, motion artifacts, and variability across gestational ages, since existing methods rely on high-quality datasets of healthy fetuses.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-27 Zhigao Cai , Xing-Ming Zhao

Fetal brain imaging is a cornerstone of prenatal screening and early diagnosis of congenital anomalies. Knowledge of fetal gestational age is the key to the accurate assessment of brain development. This study develops an attention-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Liyue Shen , Katie Shpanskaya , Edward Lee , Emily McKenna , Maryam Maleki , Quin Lu , Safwan Halabi , John Pauly , Kristen Yeom

Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the most common neonatal anomaly, highlighting the urgent need for early detection to improve outcomes. Yet, fetal ECG (fECG) signals in abdominal ECG (aECG) are often masked by maternal ECG and noise,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Chang Wang , Ming Zhu , Shahram Latifi , Buddhadeb Dawn , Shengjie Zhai

Background and Objective: Biometric measurements of fetal head are important indicators for maternal and fetal health monitoring during pregnancy. 3D ultrasound (US) has unique advantages over 2D scan in covering the whole fetal head and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Xin Yang , Xu Wang , Yi Wang , Haoran Dou , Shengli Li , Huaxuan Wen , Yi Lin , Pheng-Ann Heng , Dong Ni

The current approach to fetal anomaly screening is based on biometric measurements derived from individually selected ultrasound images. In this paper, we introduce a paradigm shift that attains human-level performance in biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Lorenzo Venturini , Samuel Budd , Alfonso Farruggia , Robert Wright , Jacqueline Matthew , Thomas G. Day , Bernhard Kainz , Reza Razavi , Jo V. Hajnal