The paper introduces UniFLM, a unified framework for segmenting and measuring fetal long bones in ultrasound images. It presents the Fetal Limb Bones (FLB) dataset with high‑quality annotations for the humerus, femur, tibia‑fibula, and radius‑ulna. UniFLM employs a Semantic‑Aware Skip Connection, a Positive Sampling strategy, and a Point Regression Mapping module to improve segmentation accuracy and bone length measurement, achieving superior performance over existing models on the FLB dataset.
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.
This study introduces a pipeline that enhances ultrasound plane pose estimation for fetal brain imaging by providing continuous, real‑time proximity feedback to standard planes (SPs). It employs a semi‑supervised segmentation model achieving high mIoU scores on both SPs and non‑SPs, and integrates a classification step to filter out frames without the fetal brain. The system, validated on an NVIDIA Clara AGX edge device, runs at 39 Hz and has been tested on real scan videos from 17 sonographers, demonstrating its practical viability for clinical use.
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:2607. 23224v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present BoneAgeTW2, the first fully open-source system to automate the complete Tanner-Whitehouse 2 (TW2) clinical protocol for skeletal maturity assessment end-to-end.
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.
The paper introduces Segment Anything Small (SAS), a data‑augmentation method that improves deep‑learning segmentation of small anatomical structures in ultrasound images. SAS uses two transformations: resizing and embedding organ thumbnails into a black background to vary organ scale, and adding noise to regions of interest to mimic tissue texture variability. Experiments on one internal and five external datasets show Dice score gains up to 0.35, with an average improvement of 0.16, and demonstrate that SAS enhances model robustness and generalizability without adding hallucinations or artifacts.
Measuring the angle between bone structures is a routine task in medical image analysis and provides a key quantitative parameter for diagnosis and treatment planning. Automated methods can reduce time and cost while improving reproducibility.
UltraPIPS introduces domain‑specific foundation models for measuring perceptual similarity in B‑mode ultrasound images. The study shows that ultrasound‑trained LPIPS backbones better correlate with downstream tasks such as classification, segmentation, and reconstruction than natural‑image or general medical models. Optimizing LPIPS loss with an ultrasound backbone yields a strong balance between reconstruction quality and realism, and the authors provide an open‑source library for these metrics.
arXiv:2607. 00744v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prenatal anomaly classification and localization is of critical importance for fetal health and pregnancy management.
arXiv:2606. 15250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radiographic assessment of lower-limb alignment (LLA) is important for predicting joint health and surgical outcomes in total knee arthroplasty.
Maternal-fetal US is the primary imaging modality for monitoring fetal development, yet accurate automated segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of pixel-level annotations. To address this issue, we propose DACL, a semi-supervised framework for robust fetal US image segmentation.
The paper introduces ExiL, a mask‑conditioned progressive learning framework for bone ultrasound segmentation that models annotation as a structured refinement trajectory. ExiL uses a synthetic expert‑like brush simulator and a lightweight U‑Net to learn from imperfect masks, and it can be updated in real time from expert refinements. In experiments on UltraBones100k and a prospective volunteer dataset, ExiL cut average annotation time from 60 to 20 seconds per frame and improved mean Dice by about 0.045, achieving 0.87 Dice and 2.7 px boundary error with 10–50 ms inference.