Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Jan 24, 2023
Congenital heart defect (CHD) refers to the overall structural abnormality of the heart or large blood vessels in the chest cavity. It is the most common type of fetal congenital defects. Prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease can improve the...
With the emergence of the age of information, the data on reproductive medicine has improved immensely. Nonetheless, healthcare workers who wish to utilise the relevance and implied value of the various data available to aid clinical decision-making ...
BACKGROUND: Colposcopy is indispensable for the diagnosis of cervical lesions. However, its diagnosis accuracy for high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) is at about 50%, and the accuracy is largely dependent on the skill and experience of...
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics
Jan 7, 2023
Human infertility is a major global public health issue estimated to affect one out of six couples, while the number of assisted reproduction cycles grows impressively year over year. Efforts to alleviate infertility using advanced technology are gai...
INTRODUCTION: Antenatal hydronephrosis (ANH) is one of the most common anomalies identified on prenatal ultrasound, found in up to 4.5% of all pregnancies. Children with ANH are surveilled with repeated renal ultrasound and when there is high suspici...
Fetal brain tissue segmentation is essential for quantifying the presence of congenital disorders in the developing fetus. Manual segmentation of fetal brain tissue is cumbersome and time-consuming, so using an automatic segmentation method can great...
IMPORTANCE: Fetal ultrasonography is essential for confirmation of gestational age (GA), and accurate GA assessment is important for providing appropriate care throughout pregnancy and for identifying complications, including fetal growth disorders. ...
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology
Dec 22, 2022
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Fetal brain MR imaging interpretations are subjective and require subspecialty expertise. We aimed to develop a deep learning algorithm for automatically measuring intracranial and brain volumes of fetal brain MRIs across gest...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 19, 2022
BACKGROUND: Care during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium are fundamental to avoid pathologies for the mother and her baby. However, health issues can occur during this period, causing misfortunes, such as the death of the fetus or neonate. Predic...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 14, 2022
BACKGROUND: Clinically cardiotocography is a technique which is used to monitor and evaluate the level of fetal distress. Even though, CTG is the most widely used device to monitor determine the fetus health, existence of high false positive result f...