Automatic measurements of fetal intracranial volume from 3D ultrasound scans.

ABSTRACT: Three-dimensional fetal ultrasound is commonly used to study the volumetric development of brain structures. To date, only a limited number of automatic procedures for delineating the intracranial volume exist. Hence, intracranial volume measurements from three-dimensional ultrasound images are predominantly performed manually. Here, we present and validate an automated tool to extract the intracranial volume from three-dimensional fetal ultrasound scans. The procedure is based on the registration of a brain model to a subject brain. The intracranial volume of the subject is measured by applying the inverse of the final transformation to an intracranial mask of the brain model. The automatic measurements showed a high correlation with manual delineation of the same subjects at two gestatio

SUBMITTER: Caspi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10406279 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature