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胎儿脑部超声扫描中与标准平面的接近度测量

Measuring proximity to standard planes during fetal brain ultrasound scanning

Wellcome/EPSRC center for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS)(Wellcome/EPSRC介入与外科科学中心(WEISS));University College London (UCL)(伦敦大学学院(UCL));Dept of Computer Science, UCL(伦敦大学学院计算机科学系);Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital of Rennes(雷恩大学医院妇产科);Univ Rennes, INSERM, LTSI - UMR 1099(雷恩大学、法国国家健康与医学研究院、图像与信号处理实验室 - UMR 1099);Fetal Medicine Unit, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust(伦敦大学学院医院NHS基金会信托伊丽莎白·加勒特·安德森翼胎儿医学科);Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health, UCL(伦敦大学学院伊丽莎白·加勒特·安德森妇女健康研究所);Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLH(伦敦大学学院医院妇产科)

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

AI总结:

该研究提出一种半监督分割模型结合6D平面姿态回归的流水线,在NVIDIA Clara AGX边缘设备上实现实时接近度检测,可辅助胎儿脑部超声扫描的导航支持。

摘要:

本文提出了一种旨在使超声(US)平面姿态估计更贴近临床应用的流水线,论证了为胎儿脑部标准平面(SPs)导航提供连续、实时接近度反馈的可行性。我们提出了一种半监督分割模型,该模型使用来自3D超声体积(非SPs)的标注SPs和未标注切片,在SPs上达到0.93的平均交并比(mIoU),在任意非SPs上达到0.86的mIoU。该模型包含分类机制,用于识别和过滤掉不含胎儿脑部的帧,并为包含胎儿脑部的帧生成掩码,增强了平面姿态回归在临床场景中的相关性。结合6D平面姿态回归,我们的流水线提供了无传感器、连续的SPs接近度检测,具有实时距离指标,而非二元平面识别。此外,我们通过在NVIDIA Clara AGX边缘设备上部署该系统来验证其可移植性,达到39 Hz的实时推理速度,超过了标准临床采集率。与之前在精选体积切片上验证的方法不同,我们回顾性地评估了来自17位不同专业水平的超声医师的真实胎儿扫描视频上的流水线:操作者在接近接近度信号的局部最小值时冻结,而非精确在该点冻结,这与临床冻结时机行为一致,而仅靠接近度无法预测专家的SP质量评分。该方法补充了现有的胎儿超声技术,是产前扫描中基于图像的导航支持的一步。

英文摘要:

This paper presents a pipeline designed to bring ultrasound (US) plane pose estimation closer to clinical use, demonstrating the feasibility of continuous, real-time proximity feedback for navigation to the standard planes (SPs) in the fetal brain. We propose a semi-supervised segmentation model that uses labeled SPs and unlabeled slices from 3D US volumes (non-SPs), achieving 0.93 mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) on SPs and 0.86 mIoU on arbitrary non-SPs. The model incorporates a classification mechanism to identify and filter out frames lacking the fetal brain, and to generate masks for those containing it, enhancing the relevance of plane pose regression in clinical settings. Combined with 6D plane pose regression, our pipeline provides sensorless, continuous proximity detection to SPs with real-time distance metrics rather than binary plane recognition. Furthermore, we validate its translational viability by deploying the system on an NVIDIA Clara AGX edge device, achieving a real-time inference speed of 39 Hz, which exceeds standard clinical acquisition rates. Unlike prior methods validated on curated volume slices, we evaluate the pipeline retrospectively on real fetal scan videos from 17 sonographers of varying expertise: operators freeze near, rather than exactly at, the local minima of the proximity signal, consistent with clinical freeze-timing behavior, whereas proximity alone does not predict expert SP quality scores. The approach complements existing fetal US technologies and is a step toward image-based navigation support in prenatal scanning.

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