Yu Wang
ABSTRACT
Ultrasound imaging is the most commonly used imaging modality for the prenatal examination of pregnant women, with real-time imaging and no radiation characteristics. Through a ultrasound image of the fetal head, doctors can measure the fetal head circumference (HC) to evaluate fetal growth and potential delivery mode. In practice, fetal HC is usually measured manually by doctors based on ultrasound images. Manual measurement of fetal HC is subjective and time-consuming, which has a negative impact on measurement accuracy and efficiency. At present, deep learning is widely investigated in the medical field. Many researchers apply deep learning to measuring fetal HC to assist doctors to accurately and quickly completing the measurement of fetal HC. In this paper, we compare the performance of eight deep learning models (U-Net, Attention U-Net, GINet, global reasoning unit (GloRe), SegFormer, Segmenter, BiSeNet V2, and short-term dense concatenate network (STDC)) on two fetal HC measurement datasets. SegFormer achieves the best results in Dice similarity coefficient (DSC), Hausdorff distance (HD), and absolute Difference (ADF). The performance of Attention U-Net is slightly worse than that of SegFormer.
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