Human-level Performance On Automatic Head Biometrics In Fetal Ultrasound Using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks

@article{Sinclair2018HumanlevelPO,
  title={Human-level Performance On Automatic Head Biometrics In Fetal Ultrasound Using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks},
  author={Matthew Sinclair and Christian F. Baumgartner and Jacqueline Matthew and Wenjia Bai and Juan Cerrolaza Martinez and Yuanwei Li and Sandra Smith and Caroline L. Knight and Bernhard Kainz and Joseph V. Hajnal and Andrew P. King and Daniel Rueckert},
  journal={2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)},
  year={2018},
  pages={714-717}
}
Measurement of head biometrics from fetal ultrasonography images is of key importance in monitoring the healthy development of fetuses. However, the accurate measurement of relevant anatomical structures is subject to large inter-observer variability in the clinic. To address this issue, an automated method utilizing Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) is proposed to determine measurements of fetal head circumference (HC) and biparietal diameter (BPD). An FCN was trained on approximately 2000 2D… 
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