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arXiv AI By Chiara Di Vece, Antonio Cirigliano, Meala Le Lous, Raffaele Napolitano, Anna L. David, Donald Peebles, Pierre Jannin, Francisco Vasconcelos, Danail Stoyanov

Measuring proximity to standard planes during fetal brain ultrasound scanning

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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.

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