Title
Automated assessment of endometrium from transvaginal ultrasound using Deep Learned Snake
Abstract
Endometrium assessment via thickness measurement is commonly performed in routine gynecological ultrasound examination for assessing the reproductive health of patients undergoing fertility related treatments and endometrium cancer screening in women with post-menopausal bleeding. This paper introduces a fully automated technique for endometrium thickness measurement from three-dimensional transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) images. The algorithm combines the robustness of deep neural networks with the more interpretable level set method for segmentation. We propose a hybrid variational curve propagation model which embeds a deep-learned endometrium probability map in the segmentation energy functional. This solution provides approximately 30% performance improvement over a contemporary supervised learning method on a database of 59 TVUS images and the thickness measurement is found to be within ±2mm of the manual measurement in 87% of the cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ISBI.2017.7950520
2017 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2017)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Endometrium,ultrasound,deep learning,uterus,segmentation,level set
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Level set method,Segmentation,Level set,Endometrium,Robustness (computer science),Supervised learning,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Ultrasound
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-1173-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nitin Singhal111310.55
Suvadip Mukherjee2606.42
Christian Perrey300.34