Evaluation and comparison of current fetal ultrasound image segmentation methods for biometric measurements: A grand challenge

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 797-813

  Rueda, Sylvia ^a   Fathima, Sana ^a   Knight, Caroline L ^b   Yaqub, Mohammad ^a   Papageorghiou, Aris T ^b   Rahmatullah, Bahbibi ^a   Foi, Alessandro ^c   Maggioni, Matteo ^c   Pepe, Antonietta ^c   Tohka, Jussi ^c   Stebbing, Richard V ^a   McManigle, John E ^a   Ciurte, Anca ^d   Bresson, Xavier ^f   Cuadra, Meritxell Bach ^e   Sun, Changming ^g   Ponomarev, Gennady V ^h   Gelfand, Mikhail S ^h   Kazanov, Marat D ^h   Wang, Ching Wei ⁱ   Chen, Hsiang Chou ⁱ   Peng, Chun Wei ⁱ   Hung, Chu Mei ⁱ   Noble, J Alison ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f University of Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

^h INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Challenge; evaluation; fetal biometry; image quality; segmentation; Ultrasound (US)

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; CHALLENGE; EVALUATION; FETAL BIOMETRY; FETAL ULTRASOUND IMAGES; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; REPRESENTATIVE SELECTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ABDOMEN; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE GROWTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

BIOMETRY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84897981539     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2276943     Document Type: Article

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