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Author:

Zeng, Yan (Zeng, Yan.) | Tsui, Po-Hsiang (Tsui, Po-Hsiang.) | Wu, Weiwei (Wu, Weiwei.) | Zhou, Zhuhuang (Zhou, Zhuhuang.) | Wu, Shuicai (Wu, Shuicai.) (Scholars:吴水才)

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Automatic computerized segmentation of fetal head from ultrasound images and head circumference (HC) biometric measurement is still challenging, due to the inherent characteristics of fetal ultrasound images at different semesters of pregnancy. In this paper, we proposed a new deep learning method for automatic fetal ultrasound image segmentation and HC biometry: deeply supervised attention-gated (DAG) V-Net, which incorporated the attention mechanism and deep supervision strategy into V-Net models. In addition, multi-scale loss function was introduced for deep supervision. The training set of the HC18 Challenge was expanded with data augmentation to train the DAG V-Net deep learning models. The trained models were used to automatically segment fetal head from two-dimensional ultrasound images, followed by morphological processing, edge detection, and ellipse fitting. The fitted ellipses were then used for HC biometric measurement. The proposed DAG V-Net method was evaluated on the testing set of HC18 (n = 355), in terms of four performance indices: Dice similarity coefficient (DSC), Hausdorff distance (HD), HC difference (DF), and HC absolute difference (ADF). Experimental results showed that DAG V-Net had a DSC of 97.93%, a DF of 0.09 +/- 2.45 mm, an AD of 1.77 +/- 1.69 mm, and an HD of 1.29 +/- 0.79 mm. The proposed DAG V-Net method ranks fifth among the participants in the HC18 Challenge. By incorporating the attention mechanism and deep supervision, the proposed method yielded better segmentation performance than conventional U-Net and V-Net methods. Compared with published state-of-the-art methods, the proposed DAG V-Net had better or comparable segmentation performance. The proposed DAG V-Net may be used as a new method for fetal ultrasound image segmentation and HC biometry. The code of DAG V-Net will be made available publicly on .

Keyword:

Fetal ultrasound image segmentation Deep supervision Deep learning Attention mechanism Head circumference

Author Community:

  • [ 1 ] [Zeng, Yan]Beijing Univ Technol, Dept Biomed Engn, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
  • [ 2 ] [Zhou, Zhuhuang]Beijing Univ Technol, Dept Biomed Engn, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
  • [ 3 ] [Wu, Shuicai]Beijing Univ Technol, Dept Biomed Engn, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
  • [ 4 ] [Tsui, Po-Hsiang]Chang Gung Univ, Coll Med, Dept Med Imaging & Radiol Sci, Taoyuan, Taiwan
  • [ 5 ] [Tsui, Po-Hsiang]Chang Gung Mem Hosp, Dept Med Imaging & Intervent, Taoyuan, Taiwan
  • [ 6 ] [Tsui, Po-Hsiang]Chang Gung Univ, Med Imaging Res Ctr, Inst Radiol Res, Taoyuan, Taiwan
  • [ 7 ] [Tsui, Po-Hsiang]Chang Gung Mem Hosp, Taoyuan, Taiwan
  • [ 8 ] [Wu, Weiwei]Capital Med Univ, Coll Biomed Engn, Beijing, Peoples R China

Reprint Author's Address:

  • 吴水才

    [Zhou, Zhuhuang]Beijing Univ Technol, Dept Biomed Engn, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China;;[Wu, Shuicai]Beijing Univ Technol, Dept Biomed Engn, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China

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JOURNAL OF DIGITAL IMAGING

ISSN: 0897-1889

Year: 2021

Issue: 1

Volume: 34

Page: 134-148

4 . 4 0 0

JCR@2022

ESI Discipline: CLINICAL MEDICINE;

ESI HC Threshold:75

JCR Journal Grade:2

Cited Count:

WoS CC Cited Count: 3

SCOPUS Cited Count: 76

ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All

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Chinese Cited Count:

30 Days PV: 1

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