An Automatic Guidance and Quality Assessment System for Doppler Imaging of Umbilical Artery

Chun Kit Wong; Manxi Lin; Alberto Raheli; Zahra Bashir; Morten Bo Søndergaard Svendsen; Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard; Aasa Feragen; Anders Nymark Christensen

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-44521-7_2

An Automatic Guidance and Quality Assessment System for Doppler Imaging of Umbilical Artery

Chun Kit Wong^*, Manxi Lin, Alberto Raheli, Zahra Bashir, Morten Bo Søndergaard Svendsen, Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard, Aasa Feragen, Anders Nymark Christensen

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University of Copenhagen

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Abstract

Examination of the umbilical artery with Doppler ultrasonography is performed to investigate blood supply to the fetus through the umbilical cord, which is vital for the monitoring of fetal health. Such examination involves several steps that must be performed correctly: identifying suitable sites on the umbilical artery for the measurement, acquiring the blood flow curve in the form of a Doppler spectrum, and ensuring compliance to a set of quality standards. These steps are performed manually and rely heavily on the operator’s skill. In this work, we propose an automated pipeline as an assistive system. By using a modified Faster R-CNN network, we trained a model that can suggest locations suitable for Doppler measurement. Meanwhile, we have also developed a method for assessment of the Doppler spectrum’s quality. The proposed system is validated on 657 images from a national ultrasound screening database, with results demonstrating its potential as a guidance system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of The 4th International Workshop of Advances in Simplifying Medical UltraSound (ASMUS)
Volume	14337
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2023
Pages	13-22
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-44520-0
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-44521-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44521-7_2
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	4th International Workshop of Advances in Simplifying Medical Ultrasound - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 8 Oct 2023 → 8 Oct 2023

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Workshop	4th International Workshop of Advances in Simplifying Medical Ultrasound
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	08/10/2023 → 08/10/2023

Keywords

Doppler Imaging
Fetal Ultrasound
Umbilical Artery

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Wong, C. K., Lin, M., Raheli, A., Bashir, Z., Svendsen, M. B. S., Tolsgaard, M. G., Feragen, A., & Christensen, A. N. (2023). An Automatic Guidance and Quality Assessment System for Doppler Imaging of Umbilical Artery. In Proceedings of The 4th International Workshop of Advances in Simplifying Medical UltraSound (ASMUS) (Vol. 14337, pp. 13-22). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44521-7_2

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Proceedings of The 4th International Workshop of Advances in Simplifying Medical UltraSound (ASMUS). Vol. 14337 Springer, 2023. p. 13-22.

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