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Ultrasound is the primary imaging modality in clinical practice during pregnancy. More than 140M fetuses are born yearly, resulting in numerous scans. The availability of a large volume of fetal ultrasound scans presents the opportunity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hussain Alasmawi , Leanne Bricker , Mohammad Yaqub

Purpose: Prenatal ultrasound is a key tool in evaluating fetal structural development and detecting abnormalities, contributing to reduced perinatal complications and improved neonatal survival. Accurate identification of standard fetal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shengjun Zhu , Siyu Liu , Runqing Xiong , Liping Zheng , Duo Ma , Rongshang Chen , Jiaxin Cai

The growing demand for prenatal ultrasound imaging has intensified a global shortage of trained sonographers, creating barriers to essential fetal health monitoring. Deep learning has the potential to enhance sonographers' efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Hussain Alasmawi , Numan Saeed , Mohammad Yaqub

The deep learning field is converging towards the use of general foundation models that can be easily adapted for diverse tasks. While this paradigm shift has become common practice within the field of natural language processing, progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Joana Palés Huix , Adithya Raju Ganeshan , Johan Fredin Haslum , Magnus Söderberg , Christos Matsoukas , Kevin Smith

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

In obstetric ultrasound (US) scanning, the learner's ability to mentally build a three-dimensional (3D) map of the fetus from a two-dimensional (2D) US image represents a significant challenge in skill acquisition. We aim to build a US…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chiara Di Vece , Maela Le Lous , Brian Dromey , Francisco Vasconcelos , Anna L David , Donald Peebles , Danail Stoyanov

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

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

Ultrasound imaging is one of the most prominent technologies to evaluate the growth, progression, and overall health of a fetus during its gestation. However, the interpretation of the data obtained from such studies is best left to expert…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Paul Hamelmann , Erik Ostrowski , Muhammad Shafique

Foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising generalization across diverse domains for time-series analysis, yet their potential for electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) and cardiotocography (CTG)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Sheng Wong , Ravi Shankar , Beth Albert , Gabriel Davis Jones

The rapid proliferation of open-source medical foundation models (FMs) raises a practical question: how well do their pre-trained representations transfer to clinically relevant but data-scarce classification tasks? Particularly in CT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hartmut Häntze , Sarah de Boer , Myrthe Buser , Alessa Hering , Bram van Ginneken , Mathias Prokop , Jawed Nawabi , Sebastian Ziegelmayer , Lisa Adams , Keno Bressem

Despite the rapid development of AI models in medical image analysis, their validation in real-world clinical settings remains limited. To address this, we introduce a generic framework designed for deploying image-based AI models in such…

Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs) exhibit remarkable generalization, yet their direct application to medical ultrasound is severely hindered by a profound modality gap. The unique acoustic physics of ultrasound, characterized by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jingguo Qu , Xinyang Han , Jia Ai , Juan Wu , Tong Zhao , Tonghuan Xiao , Sheng Ning , Yuqi Yang , Jing Qin , Ann Dorothy King , Winnie Chiu-Wing Chu , Jing Cai , Michael Tin-Cheung Ying

Foundation models, often pre-trained with large-scale data, have achieved paramount success in jump-starting various vision and language applications. Recent advances further enable adapting foundation models in downstream tasks efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Dequan Wang , Xiaosong Wang , Lilong Wang , Mengzhang Li , Qian Da , Xiaoqiang Liu , Xiangyu Gao , Jun Shen , Junjun He , Tian Shen , Qi Duan , Jie Zhao , Kang Li , Yu Qiao , Shaoting Zhang

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

Foundation models have exhibited remarkable success in various applications, such as disease diagnosis and text report generation. To date, a foundation model for endoscopic video analysis is still lacking. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Zhao Wang , Chang Liu , Shaoting Zhang , Qi Dou

Over the past decades, computer-aided diagnosis tools for breast cancer have been developed to enhance screening procedures, yet their clinical adoption remains challenged by data variability and inherent biases. Although foundation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Elodie Germani , Ilayda Selin Türk , Fatima Zeineddine , Charbel Mourad , Shadi Albarqouni

Identifying and interpreting fetal standard scan planes during 2D ultrasound mid-pregnancy examinations are highly complex tasks which require years of training. Apart from guiding the probe to the correct location, it can be equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Christian F. Baumgartner , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Jacqueline Matthew , Tara P. Fletcher , Sandra Smith , Lisa M. Koch , Bernhard Kainz , Daniel Rueckert

Foundation models are widely employed in medical image analysis, due to their high adaptability and generalizability for downstream tasks. With the increasing number of foundation models being released, model selection has become an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Fuping Wu , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance in various vision tasks, but their success heavily depends on the quality of the training data. Noisy labels are a critical issue in medical datasets and can significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yeonguk Yu , Minhwan Ko , Sungho Shin , Kangmin Kim , Kyoobin Lee