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Fetal health classification is a critical task in obstetrics, enabling early identification and management of potential health problems. However, it remains challenging due to data complexity and limited labeled samples. This research paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Sujith K Mandala

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,…

Anatomical landmarks are a crucial prerequisite for many medical imaging tasks. Usually, the set of landmarks for a given task is predefined by experts. The landmark locations for a given image are then annotated manually or via machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Richard Droste , Pierre Chatelain , Lior Drukker , Harshita Sharma , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

The purpose of this work is to demonstrate a robust and clinically validated method for correcting sound speed aberrations in medical ultrasound. We propose a correction method that calculates focusing delays directly from the observed…

Ultrasound is widely used in obstetric care due to its safety, accessibility, and real-time imaging. However, interpretation remains operator-dependent and susceptible to noise and artifacts. Deep learning models have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Leya Barrientos , Yuexi Du , Nicha C. Dvornek

The automatic analysis of ultrasound sequences can substantially improve the efficiency of clinical diagnosis. In this work we present our attempt to automate the challenging task of measuring the vascular diameter of the fetal abdominal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Nicolo' Savioli , Silvia Visentin , Erich Cosmi , Enrico Grisan , Pablo Lamata , Giovanni Montana

Fetal lung maturity is a critical indicator for predicting neonatal outcomes and the need for post-natal intervention, especially for pregnancies affected by fetal growth restriction. Intra-voxel incoherent motion analysis has shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zhennan Xiao , Katharine Brudkiewicz , Zhen Yuan , Rosalind Aughwane , Magdalena Sokolska , Joanna Chappell , Trevor Gaunt , Anna L. David , Andrew P. King , Andrew Melbourne

To improve the performance of most neuroimiage analysis pipelines, brain extraction is used as a fundamental first step in the image processing. But in the case of fetal brain development, there is a need for a reliable US-specific tool. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-27 Felipe Moser , Ruobing Huang , Aris T. Papageorghiou , Bartlomiej W. Papiez , Ana I. L. Namburete

Surgical guidance can be delivered in various ways. In neurosurgery, spatial guidance and orientation are predominantly achieved through neuronavigation systems that reference pre-operative MRI scans. Recently, there has been growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Gary Sarwin , Alessandro Carretta , Victor Staartjes , Matteo Zoli , Diego Mazzatenta , Luca Regli , Carlo Serra , Ender Konukoglu

Detecting acoustic shadows in ultrasound images is important in many clinical and engineering applications. Real-time feedback of acoustic shadows can guide sonographers to a standardized diagnostic viewing plane with minimal artifacts and…

Accurate fetal brain tissue segmentation and biometric analysis are essential for studying brain development in utero. The FeTA Challenge 2024 advanced automated fetal brain MRI analysis by introducing biometry prediction as a new task…

Maternal-fetal Ultrasound is the primary modality for monitoring fetal development, yet automated segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality annotations. To address this limitation, we propose a semi-supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Fangyijie Wang , Guénolé Silvestre , Kathleen M. Curran

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

Craniofacial anomalies indicate early developmental disturbances and are usually linked to many genetic syndromes. Early diagnosis is critical, yet ultrasound (US) examinations often fail to identify these features. This study presents an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Antonia Alomar , Ricardo Rubio , Laura Salort , Gerard Albaiges , Antoni Payà , Gemma Piella , Federico Sukno

Purpose: This work aims to enable real-time automated intra-uterine volumetric reporting and fetal weight estimation for fetal MRI, deployed directly on the scanner. Methods: A multi-region segmentation nnUNet was trained on 146 bSSFP…

Fetal growth assessment from ultrasound is based on a few biometric measurements that are performed manually and assessed relative to the expected gestational age. Reliable biometry estimation depends on the precise detection of landmarks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Netanell Avisdris , Leo Joskowicz , Brian Dromey , Anna L. David , Donald M. Peebles , Danail Stoyanov , Dafna Ben Bashat , Sophia Bano

Recent advances in deep learning have achieved promising performance for medical image analysis, while in most cases ground-truth annotations from human experts are necessary to train the deep model. In practice, such annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Jianbo Jiao , Richard Droste , Lior Drukker , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

Objective. This work investigates the use of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) to automatically perform measurements of fetal body parts, including head circumference, biparietal diameter, abdominal circumference and femur length,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-30 Szymon Płotka , Adam Klasa , Aneta Lisowska , Joanna Seliga-Siwecka , Michał Lipa , Tomasz Trzciński , Arkadiusz Sitek

The proposed study aimed to develop a deep learning model capable of detecting ventriculomegaly on prenatal ultrasound images. Ventriculomegaly is a prenatal condition characterized by dilated cerebral ventricles of the fetal brain and is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Youssef Megahed , Inok Lee , Robin Ducharme , Aylin Erman , Olivier X. Miguel , Kevin Dick , Adrian D. C. Chan , Steven Hawken , Mark Walker , Felipe Moretti

The development of robotic-assisted extracorporeal ultrasound systems has a long history and a number of projects have been proposed since the 1990s focusing on different technical aspects. These aim to resolve the deficiencies of on-site…