Fetal Intelligent Navigation Echocardiography (FINE) Detects 98% of Congenital Heart Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Fetal intelligent navigation echocardiography (FINE) is a novel method that automatically generates and displays 9 standard fetal echocardiographic views in normal hearts by applying intelligent navigation technology to spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC) volume data sets. The main objective was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of FINE in the prenatal detection of congenital heart disease (CHD).

Methods

A case-control study was conducted in 50 fetuses with a broad spectrum of CHD (cases) and 100 fetuses with normal hearts (controls) in the second and third trimesters. Using 4-dimensional ultrasound with STIC technology, volume data sets were acquired. After all identifying information was removed, the data sets were randomly distributed to a differe

SUBMITTER: Yeo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6165712 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature