SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FETAL BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS FROM ULTRASOUND DATA AND FUSION OF SAME FOR ESTIMATION OF FETAL GESTATIONAL AGE
First Claim
1. A method for segmenting and measuring anatomical structures in fetal ultrasound images comprising the steps of:
- providing a digitized ultrasound image of a fetus comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on a 3-dimensional grid;
providing a plurality of classifiers trained to detect anatomical structures in said image of said fetus; and
segmenting and measuring an anatomical structure using said image classifiers by applying said elliptical contour classifiers to said fetal ultrasound image, wherein a plurality of 2-dimensional contours characterizing said anatomical structure are detected.
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Abstract
A method for segmenting and measuring anatomical structures in fetal ultrasound images includes the steps of providing a digitized ultrasound image of a fetus comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on a 3-dimensional grid, providing a plurality of classifiers trained to detect anatomical structures in said image of said fetus, and segmenting and measuring an anatomical structure using said image classifiers by applying said elliptical contour classifiers to said fetal ultrasound image, wherein a plurality of 2-dimensional contours characterizing said anatomical structure are detected. The anatomical structure measurement can be combined with measurement of another anatomical structure to estimate gestational age of the fetus.
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24 Claims
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1. A method for segmenting and measuring anatomical structures in fetal ultrasound images comprising the steps of:
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providing a digitized ultrasound image of a fetus comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on a 3-dimensional grid;
providing a plurality of classifiers trained to detect anatomical structures in said image of said fetus; and
segmenting and measuring an anatomical structure using said image classifiers by applying said elliptical contour classifiers to said fetal ultrasound image, wherein a plurality of 2-dimensional contours characterizing said anatomical structure are detected. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for segmenting and measuring anatomical structures in fetal ultrasound images comprising the steps of:
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providing a digitized ultrasound image of a fetus comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on a 3-dimensional grid;
providing a database of pairs of contours and image intensity subsets of anatomical structures that are represented by said contour, wherein said contour is represented by an ellipse;
using a boosting technique with said database for training classifiers to correctly detect contour/intensity-subset pairs, while rejecting most non-contour/intensity-set pairs;
incorporating some non-contour/intensity-set pairs into said classifier, wherein said trained classifier outputs an image model that maps an image intensity subset to a likelihood of a presence of an anatomical structure, wherein said classifiers are adapted to segment and measure 2-dimensional anatomical structures about a selected point in said image. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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14. A program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform the method steps for segmenting and measuring anatomical structures in fetal ultrasound images, said method comprising the steps of:
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providing a digitized ultrasound image of a fetus comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on a 3-dimensional grid;
providing a plurality of classifiers trained to detect anatomical structures in said image of said fetus; and
segmenting and measuring an anatomical structure using said image classifiers by applying said elliptical contour classifiers to said fetal ultrasound image, wherein a plurality of 2-dimensional contours characterizing said anatomical structure are detected. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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