Confident head circumference measurement from ultrasound with real-time feedback for sonographers
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Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Manual estimation of fetal Head Circumference (HC) from Ultrasound (US) is a key biometric for monitoring the healthy development of fetuses. Unfortunately, such measurements are subject to large inter-observer variability, resulting in low early-detection rates of fetal abnormalities. To address this issue, we propose a novel probabilistic Deep Learning approach for real-time automated estimation of fetal HC. This system feeds back statistics on measurement robustness to inform users how confident a deep neural network is in evaluating suitable views acquired during free-hand ultrasound examination. In real-time scenarios, this approach may be exploited to guide operators to scan planes that are as close as possible to the underlying distribution of training images, for the purpose of improving inter-operator consistency. We train on freehand ultrasound data from over 2000 subjects (2848 training/540 test) and show that our method is able to predict HC measurements within 1.81±1.65 mm deviation from the ground truth, with 50% of the test images fully contained within the predicted confidence margins, and an average of 1.82±1.78 mm deviation from the margin for the remaining cases that are not fully contained.
Editor(s)
Shen, D
Liu, T
Peters, TM
Staib, LH
Essert, C
Zhou, S
Yap, PT
Khan, A
Date Issued
2019-10-14
Date Acceptance
2019-06-29
Citation
MICCAI 2019: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 2019, 11767, pp.683-691
ISBN
978-3-030-32250-2
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Start Page
683
End Page
691
Journal / Book Title
MICCAI 2019: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
Volume
11767
Copyright Statement
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. The final publication is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-32251-9_75
Sponsor
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000548735900075&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
Grant Number
EP/S013687/1
EP/S013687/1
Source
10th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI) / 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Engineering, Biomedical
Neuroimaging
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Computer Science
Engineering
Neurosciences & Neurology
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2019-10-13
Finish Date
2019-10-17
Coverage Spatial
Shenzhen, China