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Ultrasound imaging is one of the most widely used diagnostic modalities, offering real-time, radiation-free assessment across diverse clinical domains. However, interpretation of ultrasound images remains challenging due to high noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Youssef Megahed , Robin Ducharme , Aylin Erman , Mark Walker , Steven Hawken , Adrian D. C. Chan

Congenital heart disease remains the most common congenital anomaly and a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Although first-trimester fetal echocardiography offers an opportunity for earlier detection, automated analysis at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Youssef Megahed , Aylin Erman , Robin Ducharme , Mark C. Walker , Steven Hawken , Adrian D. C. Chan

Cystic hygroma is a high-risk prenatal ultrasound finding that portends high rates of chromosomal abnormalities, structural malformations, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Automated detection can increase reproducibility and support scalable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Youssef Megahed , Robin Ducharme , Inok Lee , Inbal Willner , Adrian D. C. Chan , Mark Walker , Steven Hawken

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

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

Prenatal ultrasound evaluates fetal growth and detects congenital abnormalities during pregnancy, but the examination of ultrasound images by radiologists requires expertise and sophisticated equipment, which would otherwise fail to improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Yang Qi , Jiaxin Cai , Jing Lu , Runqing Xiong , Rongshang Chen , Liping Zheng , Duo Ma

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in clinical diagnosis due to its non-invasive nature and real-time capabilities. However, traditional ultrasound diagnostics relies heavily on physician expertise and is often hampered by suboptimal image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Yuncheng Jiang , Chun-Mei Feng , Jinke Ren , Jun Wei , Zixun Zhang , Yiwen Hu , Yunbi Liu , Rui Sun , Xuemei Tang , Juan Du , Xiang Wan , Yong Xu , Bo Du , Xin Gao , Guangyu Wang , Shaohua Zhou , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Self-supervised pre-training paradigm has gained increasing prominence for learning transferable representations in medical imaging, yet existing methods for ultrasound (US) images operate at the image or frame level, overlooking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chunzheng Zhu , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin , Feng Wang , Hongwei Wang , Lei Zhao , Shengli Li , Kenli Li

Deep learning (DL) algorithms can be used to automate paranasal anomaly detection from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). However, previous works relied on supervised learning techniques to distinguish between normal and abnormal samples.…

We investigated the adaptation and performance of Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) with Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures for self-supervised representation learning on one-dimensional (1D) ultrasound signals. Although MAEs have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Immanuel Roßteutscher , Klaus S. Drese , Thorsten Uphues

Reliable interpretation of cardiac ultrasound images is essential for accurate clinical diagnosis and assessment. Self-supervised learning has shown promise in medical imaging by leveraging large unlabelled datasets to learn meaningful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Youssef Megahed , Salma I. Megahed , Robin Ducharme , Inok Lee , Adrian D. C. Chan , Mark C. Walker , Steven Hawken

Fetal abdominal malformations are serious congenital anomalies that require accurate diagnosis to guide pregnancy management and reduce mortality. Although AI has demonstrated significant potential in medical diagnosis, its application to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Huanwen Liang , Jingxian Xu , Yuanji Zhang , Yuhao Huang , Yuhan Zhang , Xin Yang , Ran Li , Xuedong Deng , Yanjun Liu , Guowei Tao , Yun Wu , Sheng Zhao , Xinru Gao , Dong Ni

Purpose: Paranasal anomalies, frequently identified in routine radiological screenings, exhibit diverse morphological characteristics. Due to the diversity of anomalies, supervised learning methods require large labelled dataset exhibiting…

Precise estimation of fetal biometry parameters from ultrasound images is vital for evaluating fetal growth, monitoring health, and identifying potential complications reliably. However, the automated computerized segmentation of the fetal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Mohammad Areeb Qazi , Mohammed Talha Alam , Ibrahim Almakky , Werner Gerhard Diehl , Leanne Bricker , Mohammad Yaqub

Semi-supervised learning methods have achieved excellent performance on standard benchmark datasets using very few labelled images. Anatomy classification in fetal 2D ultrasound is an ideal problem setting to test whether these results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Jeremy Tan , Anselm Au , Qingjie Meng , Bernhard Kainz

Kidney abnormality detection is required for all preclinical drug development. It involves a time-consuming and costly examination of hundreds to thousands of whole-slide images per drug safety study, most of which are normal, to detect any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ivan Slootweg , Natalia P. García-De-La-Puente , Geert Litjens , Salma Dammak

Ultrasonography is an essential tool in mid-pregnancy for assessing fetal development, appreciated for its non-invasive and real-time imaging capabilities. Yet, the interpretation of ultrasound images is often complicated by acoustic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Hanna Mykula , Lisa Gasser , Silvia Lobmaier , Julia A. Schnabel , Veronika Zimmer , Cosmin I. Bercea

Deep unsupervised representation learning has recently led to new approaches in the field of Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) in brain MRI. The main principle behind these works is to learn a model of normal anatomy by learning to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Christoph Baur , Stefan Denner , Benedikt Wiestler , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab

Classification of ultrasound (US) kidney images for diagnosis of congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) in children is a challenging task. It is desirable to improve existing pattern classification models that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Qiang Zheng , Gregory Tasian , Yong Fan

The non-invasive assessment of increasingly incidentally discovered renal masses is a critical challenge in urologic oncology, where diagnostic uncertainty frequently leads to the overtreatment of benign or indolent tumors. In this study,…

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