Automatic Detection of Standard Sagittal Plane in the First Trimester of Pregnancy Using 3-D Ultrasound Data

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• 作者：Siqing Nie^&lowast ; ; Jinhua Yu^&lowast ; ; ^&dagger ; ; ^{jhyu@fudan.edu.cn} ; Ping Chen^&Dagger ; ; Yuanyuan Wang^&lowast ; ; Jian Qiu Zhang^&lowast ;
• 关键词：Sagittal plane detection ; Deep belief network ; Symmetry detection ; 3-D ultrasound data
• 刊名：Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：43
• 期：1
• 页码：286-300
• 全文大小：2624 K
• 卷排序：43

文摘

Fetal nuchal translucency (NT) thickness is one of the most important parameters in prenatal screening. Locating the mid-sagittal plane is one of the key points to measure NT. In this paper, an automatic method for the sagittal plane detection using 3-D ultrasound data is proposed. To avoid unnecessary massive searching and the corresponding huge computation load, a model is proposed to turn the sagittal plane detection problem into a symmetry plane and axis searching problem. The deep belief network (DBN) and a modified circle detection method provide prior knowledge for the searching. The experiments show that in most cases, the result plane has small distance error and angle error at the same time—88.6% of the result planes have a distance error less than 4 mm and 71.0% have angle error less than 20°.