Learning from redundant but inconsistent reference data: anatomical views and measurements for fetal brain screening

I. Waechter-Stehle; T. Klinder; J.-M. Rouet; D. Roundhill; G. Andrews; A. Cavallaro; M. Molloholli; T. Norris; R. Napolitano; A. Papageorghiou; C. Lorenz

doi:10.1117/12.2216088

21 March 2016 Learning from redundant but inconsistent reference data: anatomical views and measurements for fetal brain screening

I. Waechter-Stehle, T. Klinder, J.-M. Rouet, D. Roundhill, G. Andrews, A. Cavallaro, M. Molloholli, T. Norris, R. Napolitano, A. Papageorghiou, C. Lorenz

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Proceedings Volume 9784, Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing; 97841A (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216088
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In a fetal brain screening examination, a standardized set of anatomical views is inspected and certain biometric measurements are taken in these views. Acquisition of recommended planes requires a certain level of operator expertise. 3D ultrasound has the potential to reduce the manual task to only capture a volume containing the head and to subsequently determine the standard 2D views and measurements automatically. For this purpose, a segmentation model of the fetal brain was created and trained with expert annotations. It was found that the annotations show a considerable intra- and inter-observer variability. To handle the variability, we propose a method to train the model with redundant but inconsistent reference data from many expert users. If the outlier-cleaned average of all reference annotations is considered as ground truth, errors of the automatic view detection are lower than the errors of all individual users and errors of the measurements are in the same range as user error. The resulting functionality allows the completely automated estimation of views and measurements in 3D fetal ultrasound images.

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I. Waechter-Stehle, T. Klinder, J.-M. Rouet, D. Roundhill, G. Andrews, A. Cavallaro, M. Molloholli, T. Norris, R. Napolitano, A. Papageorghiou, and C. Lorenz "Learning from redundant but inconsistent reference data: anatomical views and measurements for fetal brain screening", Proc. SPIE 9784, Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing, 97841A (21 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216088

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