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Malnutrition among newborns is a top public health concern in developing countries. Identification and subsequent growth monitoring are key to successful interventions. However, this is challenging in rural communities where health systems…

Manual estimation of fetal Head Circumference (HC) from Ultrasound (US) is a key biometric for monitoring the healthy development of fetuses. Unfortunately, such measurements are subject to large inter-observer variability, resulting in low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Samuel Budd , Matthew Sinclair , Bishesh Khanal , Jacqueline Matthew , David Lloyd , Alberto Gomez , Nicolas Toussaint , Emma Robinson , Bernhard Kainz

Accurate fetal birth weight (FBW) estimation is essential for optimizing delivery decisions and reducing perinatal mortality. However, clinical methods for FBW estimation are inefficient, operator-dependent, and challenging to apply in…

Brain development involves a sequence of structural changes from early stages of the embryo until several months after birth. Currently, ultrasound is the established technique for screening due to its ability to acquire dynamic images in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Mariano Cabezas , Yago Diez , Clara Martinez-Diago , Anna Maroto

Automatic segmentation of the placenta in fetal ultrasound (US) is challenging due to the (i) high diversity of placenta appearance, (ii) the restricted quality in US resulting in highly variable reference annotations, and (iii) the limited…

Purpose: Ultrasound is the most commonly used medical imaging modality for diagnosis and screening in clinical practice. Due to its safety profile, noninvasive nature and portability, ultrasound is the primary imaging modality for fetal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Sonit Singh , Gordon Stevenson , Brendan Mein , Alec Welsh , Arcot Sowmya

Accurate segmentation of fetal brain magnetic resonance images is crucial for analyzing fetal brain development and detecting potential neurodevelopmental abnormalities. Traditional deep learning-based automatic segmentation, although…

Objective. Limited access to breast cancer diagnosis globally leads to delayed treatment. Ultrasound, an effective yet underutilized method, requires specialized training for sonographers, which hinders its widespread use. Approach. Volume…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Donya Khaledyan , Thomas J. Marini , Avice OConnell , Steven Meng , Jonah Kan , Galen Brennan , Yu Zhao , Timothy M. Baran , Kevin J. Parker

This paper proposes batch augmentation with unimodal fine-tuning to detect the fetus's organs from ultrasound images and associated clinical textual information. We also prescribe pre-training initial layers with investigated medical data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 H M Dipu Kabir , Subrota Kumar Mondal , Mohammad Ali Moni

3D pose estimation from a 2D cross-sectional view enables healthcare professionals to navigate through the 3D space, and such techniques initiate automatic guidance in many image-guided radiology applications. In this work, we investigate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Qianhui Men , Xiaoqing Guo , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

Deep learning-based techniques have been widely utilized for brain tumor segmentation using both single and multi-modal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images. Most current studies focus on centralized training due to the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ruojun Zhou , Lisha Qu , Lei Zhang , Ziming Li , Hongwei Yu , Bing Luo

An abdominal ultrasound examination, which is the most common ultrasound examination, requires substantial manual efforts to acquire standard abdominal organ views, annotate the views in texts, and record clinically relevant organ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Zhoubing Xu , Yuankai Huo , JinHyeong Park , Bennett Landman , Andy Milkowski , Sasa Grbic , Shaohua Zhou

Ultrasound offers a safe, cost-effective, and widely accessible technology for fetal brain imaging, making it especially suitable for routine clinical use. However, it suffers from view-dependent artifacts, operator variability, and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Mohammad Khateri , Morteza Ghahremani , Sergio Valencia , Camilo Jaimes , Alejandra Sierra , Jussi Tohka , P. Ellen Grant , Davood Karimi

Objective. Sleep is a critical physiological process that plays a vital role in maintaining physical and mental health. Accurate detection of arousals and sleep stages is essential for the diagnosis of sleep disorders, as frequent and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Hasan Zan , Abdulnasir Yildiz

Segmentation of the developing fetal brain is an important step in quantitative analyses. However, manual segmentation is a very time-consuming task which is prone to error and must be completed by highly specialized indi-viduals.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Kelly Payette , Raimund Kottke , Andras Jakab

Ultrasound (US) imaging exhibits substantial heterogeneity across anatomical structures and acquisition protocols, posing significant challenges to the development of generalizable analysis models. Most existing methods are task-specific,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Bo Deng , Yitong Tang , Jiake Li , Yuxin Huang , Li Wang , Yu Zhang , Yufei Zhan , Hua Lu , Xiaoshen Zhang , Jieyun Bai

Study Objectives: Fetal sleep is a vital yet underexplored aspect of prenatal neurodevelopment. Its cyclic organization reflects the maturation of central neural circuits, and disturbances in these patterns may offer some of the earliest…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-19 Weitao Tang , Johann Vargas-Calixto , Nasim Katebi , Robert Galinsky , Gari D. Clifford , Faezeh Marzbanrad

Introduction: Fetal resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a rapidly evolving field that provides valuable insight into brain development before birth. Accurate segmentation of the fetal brain from the surrounding…

Deformable medical image registration is a crucial aspect of medical image analysis. In recent years, researchers have begun leveraging auxiliary tasks (such as supervised segmentation) to provide anatomical structure information for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Hongchao Zhou , Shunbo Hu

Colo-segment recognition in colonoscopy videos is a key requirement for many downstream tasks, but existing automatic recognition methods only use colonoscopy images without fully exploiting the use of temporal information, leading to poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ziyi Wang , Zhengjie Zhang , Jingsheng Gao , Dahong Qian , Suncheng Xiang