SonoNet: real-time detection and localisation of fetal standard scan planes in freehand ultrasound
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Abstract
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 difficult for a non-expert to identify relevant structures within the image. Automatic image processing can provide tools to help experienced as well as inexperienced operators with these tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on convolutional neural networks which can automatically detect 13 fetal standard views in freehand 2D ultrasound data as well as provide a localisation of the fetal structures via a bounding box. An important contribution is that the network learns to localise the target anatomy using weak supervision based on image-level labels only. The network architecture is designed to operate in real-time while providing optimal output for the localisation task. We present results for real-time annotation, retrospective frame retrieval from saved videos, and localisation on a very large and challenging dataset consisting of images and video recordings of full clinical anomaly screenings. We found that the proposed method achieved an average F1-score of 0.798 in a realistic classification experiment modelling real-time detection, and obtained a 90.09% accuracy for retrospective frame retrieval. Moreover, an accuracy of 77.8% was achieved on the localisation task.
Date Issued
2017-11-01
Date Acceptance
2017-06-01
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2017, 36 (11), pp.2204-2215
ISSN
1558-254X
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Start Page
2204
End Page
2215
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Volume
36
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
© 2017 IEEE. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Wellcome Trust
Grant Number
RTJ5557761-1
PO :RTJ5557761-1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Engineering, Biomedical
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Computer Science
Engineering
Convolutional neural networks
fetal ultrasound
standard plane detection
weakly supervised localisation
Algorithms
Female
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Neural Networks, Computer
Pregnancy
Ultrasonography, Prenatal
Video Recording
Humans
Ultrasonography, Prenatal
Pregnancy
Algorithms
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Video Recording
Female
Neural Networks, Computer
Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2017-07-11