Fetal Intelligent Navigation Echocardiography (FINE): A novel method for rapid, simple, and automatic examination of the fetal heart

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 268-284

  Yeo, Lami ^a,b,c   Romero, Roberto ^a,b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b HUTZEL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4D; cardiac; congenital heart disease; fetal heart; prenatal diagnosis; spatiotemporal image correlation; STIC; ultrasound; Virtual Intelligent Sonographer Assistance; VIS Assistance

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; 4D; ARTICLE; CARDIAC; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PULMONARY ATRESIA WITH INTACT VENTRICULAR SEPTUM; SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGE CORRELATION; STIC; ULTRASOUND; VIRTUAL INTELLIGENT SONOGRAPHER ASSISTANCE; VIS-ASSISTANCE®;

AORTIC COARCTATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY ATRESIA; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

4D; CARDIAC; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FETAL HEART; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGE CORRELATION; STIC; ULTRASOUND; VIRTUAL INTELLIGENT SONOGRAPHER ASSISTANCE; VIS-ASSISTANCE®;

EID: 84883499638     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.12563     Document Type: Article

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