Fetal ultrasound image segmentation system and its use in fetal weight estimation

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1227-1237

  Yu, Jinhua ^a   Wang, Yuanyuan ^a   Chen, Ping ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Antepartum ultrasonogram; Fetal weight estimation; Ultrasound image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FETAL MONITORING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ANTEPARTUM ULTRASONOGRAM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; BIPARIETAL DIAMETERS; ESTIMATION METHODS; FEMUR LENGTHS; FETAL ULTRASOUND IMAGES; FETAL WEIGHT ESTIMATION; FETAL WEIGHT ESTIMATIONS; FETAL WEIGHTS; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCES; MEAN ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE ERRORS; SEGMENTATION SYSTEMS; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSIONS; ULTRASOUND IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETAL BIOPHYSICAL PROFILE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS WEIGHT; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRENATAL CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CEPHALOMETRY; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57049113194     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-008-0407-y     Document Type: Article

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