Whole examination AI estimation of fetal biometrics from 20-week ultrasound scans

Abstract The current approach to fetal anomaly screening is based on biometric measurements derived from individually selected ultrasound images.In this paper, we introduce a paradigm shift that attains human-level performance in biometric measurement by aggregating automatically extracted biometrics from every frame across an entire scan, with no need for operator intervention.We use a neural network to classify each frame Cotton Candy of an ultrasound video recording.We then measure fetal biometrics in every frame where appropriate anatomy is visible.

We use a Bayesian method to estimate the true value of each biometric from a large number of measurements and probabilistically reject outliers.We performed a retrospective Tweed Hats experiment on 1457 recordings (comprising 48 million frames) of 20-week ultrasound scans, estimated fetal biometrics in those scans and compared our estimates to real-time manual measurements.Our method achieves human-level performance in estimating fetal biometrics and estimates well-calibrated credible intervals for the true biometric value.

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