The paper presents a two‑stage framework for prenatal congenital heart disease (CHD) screening that operates directly on whole fetal ultrasound studies. It first learns transferable frame representations via self‑supervised masked‑autoencoder pre‑training, then identifies cardiac frames with a disease‑robust module and aggregates them using a transformer‑based multiple instance learning model to produce a case‑level diagnosis. The approach achieves high performance (AUC 0.985, specificity 0.990) on an internal test set and, after label‑free CORAL adaptation, improves to an AUC of 0.944 on an external cohort, outperforming existing baselines.
Congenital heart disease (CHD) diagnosis and surgical planning often require patient-specific 3D anatomical models, but manual segmentation is labor-intensive, particularly in complex anatomies. Altho...
The paper presents the first systematic evaluation of out‑of‑distribution generalization for congenital heart disease (CHD) segmentation, using the ImageCHD cohort as a held‑out target. It compares several segmentation architectures under different training regimes, showing that in‑distribution performance is a poor predictor of cross‑cohort robustness: nnU‑Net drops from 0.77 to 0.51 Dice, while SwinUNETR maintains higher performance at 0.67 Dice. Limited target‑domain adaptation with only 11 labeled ImageCHD cases boosts all SwinUNETR variants above 0.76 Dice, highlighting the importance of explicit cross‑dataset testing.
arXiv:2607. 00744v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prenatal anomaly classification and localization is of critical importance for fetal health and pregnancy management.
AnatoProto is a lightweight sequence‑level framework that adapts a frozen BiomedCLIP encoder for detecting the fetal abdominal circumference standard plane in low‑cost obstetric blind sweeps. It incorporates anatomy‑weighted spatial pooling, a within‑case prototype loss, a three‑stage cascade refinement, and a hybrid prediction head to address the highly imbalanced, short‑segment nature of the task. On the ACOUSLIC‑AI benchmark, AnatoProto achieves a test F1 of 67.72, surpassing the best foundation‑model baseline by 13.20 F1 and the best video temporal‑action‑detection baseline by 15.76 F1.
arXiv:2608. 14763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assessment of ventriculomegaly (VM) on fetal brain ultrasound relies primarily on measuring lateral ventricular atrial width on standard planes, which is operator-dependent and may not fully reflect the overall ventricular enlargement.
arXiv:2606. 11106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A global shortage of trained sonographers limits prenatal ultrasound screening in low- and middle-income countries, where over half of pregnant women receive no skilled sonography.
arXiv:2608. 04766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A large number of infants with congenital anomalies are born each year globally, especially in areas with underdeveloped medical resources.
arXiv:2607. 11287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comprehensive quantification of cardiac structures from computed tomography (CT) remains limited not by data availability but by the scalability of measurements, which makes routine use impractical.
arXiv:2609.15225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective: To develop an intelligent framework, termed CUA-Net, for the automated classification of congenital uterine anomalies (CUA) without requirin...
arXiv:2603. 08505v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) is a low-cost, widely used modality for diagnosing electrical abnormalities like atrial fibrillation by capturing the heart's electrical activity.
The paper introduces SV-Cine, a cardiac MRI segmentation framework tailored for single ventricle physiology (SVP). It combines a generative data augmentation pipeline that creates synthetic 3D cardiac meshes and MRI, with a diagnosis-conditioned adaptation of the CineMA foundation model that uses patient-level diagnostic information to improve segmentation. Evaluations on an internal cohort show high Dice scores for left and right ventricles, outperforming nnU-Net, and demonstrate that incorporating diagnosis priors can adapt a pretrained model to specialized SVP tasks.
arXiv:2607. 03009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Foundation models (FMs) trained on large-scale unlabeled physiological data have emerged as a promising paradigm for medical artificial intelligence.