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In this paper, we propose a novel machine learning based method to categorize unlabeled fetal ultrasound images. The proposed method guides the learning of a Random Forests classifier to extract features from regions inside the images where meaningful structures exist. The new method utilizes a translation and orientation invariant feature which captures the appearance of a region at multiple spatial resolutions. Evaluated on a large real world clinical dataset (~30K images from a hospital database), our method showed very promising categorization accuracy (accuracytop1 is 75% while accuracytop2 is 91%).
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Yaqub, M., Kelly, B., Papageorghiou, A.T., Noble, J.A. (2015). Guided Random Forests for Identification of Key Fetal Anatomy and Image Categorization in Ultrasound Scans. In: Navab, N., Hornegger, J., Wells, W., Frangi, A. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2015. MICCAI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9351. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24574-4_82
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