Automated Description and Workflow Analysis of Fetal Echocardiography in First-Trimester Ultrasound Video Scans

This paper presents a novel, fully-automatic framework for fetal echocardiography analysis of full-length routine first-trimester fetal ultrasound scan video. In this study, a new deep learning architecture, which considers spatio-temporal information and spatial attention, is designed to temporally...

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Main Authors: Yasrab, Robail, Alsharid, Mohammad, Sarker, Md. Mostafa Kamal, Zhao, He, Papageorghiou, Aris T., Noble, J. Alison
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytical models
Annotations
Echocardiography
fetal heart
first trimester
Neural networks
Protocols
Semantics
spatio-temporal analysis
Ultrasonic imaging
ultrasound
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Summary:This paper presents a novel, fully-automatic framework for fetal echocardiography analysis of full-length routine first-trimester fetal ultrasound scan video. In this study, a new deep learning architecture, which considers spatio-temporal information and spatial attention, is designed to temporally partition ultrasound video into semantically meaningful segments. The resulting automated semantic annotation is used to analyse cardiac examination workflow. The proposed 2D+t convolution neural network architecture achieves an A1 accuracy of 96.37%, F1 of 95.61%, and precision of 96.18% with 21.49% fewer parameters than the smallest ResNet-based architecture. Automated deep-learning based semantic annotation of unlabelled video scans (n=250) shows a high correlation with expert cardiac annotations (ρ = 0.96, p = 0.0004), thereby demonstrating the applicability of the proposed annotation model for echocardiography workflow analysis.
ISSN:1945-8452
DOI:10.1109/ISBI53787.2023.10230422