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The placenta plays a crucial role in fetal development. Automated 3D placenta segmentation from fetal EPI MRI holds promise for advancing prenatal care. This paper proposes an effective semi-supervised learning method for improving placenta segmentation in fetal EPI MRI time series. We introduce consistency regularization loss that promotes consistency under spatial transformation of the same image and temporal consistency across nearby images in a time series. The experimental results show that the method improves the overall segmentation accuracy and provides better performance for outliers and hard samples. The evaluation also indicates that our method improves the temporal coherency of the prediction, which could lead to more accurate computation of temporal placental biomarkers. This work contributes to the study of the placenta and prenatal clinical decision-making.
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This research is supported by NIH NIBIB NAC P41EB015902, NIH NICHD R01HD100009, and NIH NIBIB 5R01EB032708, and the Swiss National Science Foundation project P500PT-206955.
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Liu, Y. et al. (2023). Consistency Regularization Improves Placenta Segmentation in Fetal EPI MRI Time Series. In: Link-Sourani, D., Abaci Turk, E., Macgowan, C., Hutter, J., Melbourne, A., Licandro, R. (eds) Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis. PIPPI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14246. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45544-5_7
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