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Fetal head segmentation is a crucial step in measuring the fetal head circumference (HC) during gestation, an important biometric in obstetrics for monitoring fetal growth. However, manual biometry generation is time-consuming and results…

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Automated fetal head segmentation in ultrasound images is critical for accurate biometric measurements in prenatal care. While existing deep learning approaches have achieved a reasonable performance, they struggle with issues like low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ammar Bhilwarawala , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sina Derakhshandeh , Ali Mahloojifar

This article describes the development of a novel U-Net-enhanced Wavelet Neural Operator (U-WNO),which combines wavelet decomposition, operator learning, and an encoder-decoder mechanism. This approach harnesses the superiority of the…

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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…

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end multi-task neural network called FetalNet with an attention mechanism and stacked module for spatio-temporal fetal ultrasound scan video analysis. Fetal biometric measurement is a standard examination…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Szymon Płotka , Tomasz Włodarczyk , Adam Klasa , Michał Lipa , Arkadiusz Sitek , Tomasz Trzciński

Ultrasound imaging is a standard examination during pregnancy that can be used for measuring specific biometric parameters towards prenatal diagnosis and estimating gestational age. Fetal head circumference (HC) is one of the significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Zahra Sobhaninia , Shima Rafiei , Ali Emami , Nader Karimi , Kayvan Najarian , Shadrokh Samavi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr

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

Medical images used in clinical practice are heterogeneous and not the same quality as scans studied in academic research. Preprocessing breaks down in extreme cases when anatomy, artifacts, or imaging parameters are unusual or protocols…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi , Mads Nielsen

Fine-tuning a network which has been trained on a large dataset is an alternative to full training in order to overcome the problem of scarce and expensive data in medical applications. While the shallow layers of the network are usually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Mina Amiri , Rupert Brooks , Hassan Rivaz

Quality assessment of prenatal ultrasonography is essential for the screening of fetal central nervous system (CNS) anomalies. The interpretation of fetal brain structures is highly subjective, expertise-driven, and requires years of…

Ultrasound fetal imaging is beneficial to support prenatal development because it is affordable and non-intrusive. Nevertheless, fetal plane classification (FPC) remains challenging and time-consuming for obstetricians since it depends on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Arrun Sivasubramanian , Divya Sasidharan , Sowmya V , Vinayakumar Ravi

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 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

We present a novel, parameter-efficient and practical fully convolutional neural network architecture, termed InfiNet, aimed at voxel-wise semantic segmentation of infant brain MRI images at iso-intense stage, which can be easily extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Shubham Kumar , Sailesh Conjeti , Abhijit Guha Roy , Christian Wachinger , Nassir Navab

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Medical image segmentation, particularly in the context of ultrasound data, is a crucial aspect of computer vision and medical imaging. This paper delves into the complexities of uncertainty in the segmentation process, focusing on fetal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Shuge Lei

One of the routine examinations that are used for prenatal care in many countries is ultrasound imaging. This procedure provides various information about fetus health and development, the progress of the pregnancy and, the baby's due date.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Zahra Sobhaninia , Ali Emami , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Brain tumor segmentation is a critical task in medical image analysis, aiding in the diagnosis and treatment planning of brain tumor patients. The importance of automated and accurate brain tumor segmentation cannot be overstated. It…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Muhammad Ansab Butt , Absaar Ul Jabbar

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors plays a key role in the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumor diseases. It serves as a critical technology for quantifying tumors and extracting their features. With the increasing application of deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Longfeng Shen , Yanqi Hou , Jiacong Chen , Liangjin Diao , Yaxi Duan
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